Customizing Frame corner radius with Xamarin.Forms Android and iOS

I've recently needed to customize Frame corner radius to have just the top or bottom corners rounded, whereas the rest corners should stay rectangular. The problem is that CornerRadius property on a Frame element takes a float as the argument, meaning that the value will apply to all of the corners.

Best way to create a splash screen in Xamarin.Forms Android project

It is vital for every mobile app to have some sort of indication of the fact that the app has been started and it's loading the content. Ideally, the waiting time would be reduced to 0 and user would see the landing page of the app straight after hitting the app's icon.

Xamarin.Forms - Hiding label on the TabbedPage tabs (Part I - Android)

In my previous post I have explained how to deal with selected and unselected state of the TabbedPage tabs. This post will be a continuation on the topic of TabbedPage customisation. I will show you how to remove the label from the tabs on Android.

Xamarin.Forms – Selected and Unselected colors for iOS and Android TabbedPage tabs

It’s very simple to set selected and unselected colors for Android devices. You can take advantage of the available platform specifics. Whereas on iOS it's a bit more complex.

MvvmCross, SyncFusion SfChart and UWP .NET Native tool chain compilation

I ran into an issue where my Xamarin.Forms UWP app, which uses MvvmCross and SyncFusion SfCharts stopped showing charts once I created the app package for the Windows Store (i.e. created *.appxupload package with .NET native tool chain).

Google Play Store – Can’t install app (Error code: -504)

I did a brief search on the Internet what could be causing such behaviour and majority of posts were pointing at some issues with cached data by Google Play Store and/or Google Play Services somehow breaking installation process. They were suggesting cleaning cache of these to solve the problem.

How to use SQLite database in Windows 10 UWP applications

This topic is going to be sort of continuation of my previous post about BuildIt SQLite, where I show how to use it with code examples

SQLite Wrapper for Windows 10 UWP applications

The idea for SQLite Wrapper was purely dictated by the demand. We, at BuiltToRoam – company that I work at – are dealing with all types of universal application projects (Universal Apps for Windows 8.0-8.1 and Windows Phone 8.0-8.1 or UWP for Windows 10) that are required to use database(s)

Requested Windows Runtime type ‘Lumia.Imaging.StorageFileImageSource’ is not registered

This issue stroke me suddenly and without any reason (at least I couldn’t find one). One day code that rotates picture, which was captured from camera, started to throw exceptions. I was really surprised, because I didn’t change much in the project since the time it was working just fine..

MdilXapCompile.exe failed with error code 1004

Another blog post about my struggles with weird compilation errors of universal app solution.

Windows Phone - Image control and its Source property

Recently I was struggling with trying to set images (being a byte[] and/or being an Asset file and/or being an IsolatedStorage file) as an Image.Source.

Windows Phone positioning ListView scrollbar, GridView scrollbar, ScrollViewer scrollbar at the edge of the screen

Almost all of the Windows Phone apps have got a small offset on left and right side. I believe that, it’s got something to do with better user experience. As a layman in this matter, I can just guess that it makes human eye more comfortable to look at content which doesn’t touch edges