Jim Bennett

Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, Xamarin Certified Developer, author of Xamarin In Action, blogger, speaker, father and lover of beer, whisky and Thai food. Opinions are my own.
Cloud Developer Advocate

  Redmond, WA, USA

My book:
Xamarin In Action

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Building a Xamarin Android app - part 5

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This is the fifth part in the my series about building an Android app using Xamarin.Android. I highly recommend reading these first. The previous parts are: Creating the basic app Defining our data Building view models Binding the view models to the UI Adding the Add button Currently we have a nice recycler view showing our dummy counters in card…

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MVVMLight navigation and AppCompatActivity

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As much as I'm loving MVVMLight it does have some limitations. The one I've hit recently is how well it doesn't work when you are using AppCompat (though to be honest I think it's more down to how hacky AppCompat seems to be). I'm using AppCompatActivity as my base activity class to get an action bar supported on older API versions. The problem…

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Building a Xamarin Android app - part 4

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This is the fourth part in the my series about building an Android app using Xamarin.Android. You can find the first part here, the second part here and the third part here, and I highly recommend reading these first. Binding our view models to the UI We have our models, we have our view models, now to work on the views! First thing we need to d…

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Building a Xamarin Android app - part 6

Featured Jim Bennett xamarin, xamarin.android, mvvmlight, Technology, UI, tutorial

This is the sixth part in the my series about building an Android app using Xamarin.Android. I highly recommend reading the rest of the series first. The previous parts are: Creating the basic app Defining our data Building view models Binding the view models to the UI Adding the add button Editing and deleting our counters So far we have a prett…

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Building a Xamarin Android app - part 5

Featured Jim Bennett xamarin, xamarin.android, mvvmlight, binding, Technology, UI, tutorial

This is the fifth part in the my series about building an Android app using Xamarin.Android. I highly recommend reading these first. The previous parts are: Creating the basic app Defining our data Building view models Binding the view models to the UI Adding the Add button Currently we have a nice recycler view showing our dummy counters in card…

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MVVMLight navigation and AppCompatActivity

Featured Jim Bennett xamarin, xamarin.android, mvvmlight, AppCompat, nuget, Technology

As much as I'm loving MVVMLight it does have some limitations. The one I've hit recently is how well it doesn't work when you are using AppCompat (though to be honest I think it's more down to how hacky AppCompat seems to be). I'm using AppCompatActivity as my base activity class to get an action bar supported on older API versions. The problem…

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Building a Xamarin Android app - part 4

Featured Jim Bennett xamarin, xamarin.android, tutorial, mvvmlight, Technology, recycler view, UI

This is the fourth part in the my series about building an Android app using Xamarin.Android. You can find the first part here, the second part here and the third part here, and I highly recommend reading these first. Binding our view models to the UI We have our models, we have our view models, now to work on the views! First thing we need to d…

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