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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.

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Building a Xamarin Android app - part 6

Featured Jim Bennett 24 Mar 2016 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…

Building a Xamarin Android app - part 5

Featured Jim Bennett 18 Feb 2016 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…

Building a Xamarin Android app - part 4

Featured Jim Bennett 01 Feb 2016 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…

Building a Xamarin Android app - part 3

Featured Jim Bennett 30 Jan 2016 xamarin, xamarin.android, Technology, mvvmlight, mvvm, tutorial

This is the third part in the my series about building an Android app using Xamarin.Android. You can find the first part here and the second part here, and I highly recommend reading these first. Data binding In the first 2 parts of this we created our basic app shell and built a core library with models that used SQLite to store and retrieve our…

Building a Xamarin Android app - part 2

Featured Jim Bennett 15 Jan 2016 xamarin, xamarin.android, Technology, sqlite, database, tutorial

This is the second part in the my series about building an Android app using Xamarin.Android. You can find the first part here, and I highly recommend reading that first. Time to think about data In the last post we put together the basic app shell, colour scheme etc. Now lets think about the data model, and how we are going to persist the dat…

Building a Xamarin Android app - part 1

Featured Jim Bennett 13 Jan 2016 xamarin, Technology, tutorial, xamarin.android, material design, fluidui, design

I've got a bit of time off between finishing my career as a slave to the world of finance IT and starting a new and exciting job as a Xamarin mobile app developer in New Zealand, so I thought I'd try to brush up on my Xamarin.Android knowledge as in the past I've mainly focused on iOS. So to help me do this, I've decided to build and publish an ap…

Building iBeacon apps using Xamarin.iOS Video Tutorial

Featured Jim Bennett 12 Nov 2015 ibeacon, xamarin, xamarin.ios, Technology, video, YouTube, tutorial

As a change from talking about iBeacons at events, I've decided to start a series of YouTube videos covering a number of topics around iBeacons. My first one, an introduction to building your first iBeacon app using Xamarin.iOS is now up on YouTube! You can check it out below. This is my first one, so would appreciate any feedback.…