Weather Warning Alerts with Home Assistant
Displaying local weather warning alerts for the UK within Home Assistant
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.NET MAUI - Auto Scaling App Icons & App Image Resources
Learn how .NET MAUI generates the right size images and app icons for all platforms, without you having to do anything.
Controlling Streaming Services with Alexa - Part 1
One of the biggest problems that I’ve found with the sheer amount of streaming services is which one has what? Sometimes I’ll miss great content on Amazon Pr...
Xamarin Let’s Build - Biometric Support
Biometrics is a commonly seen security feature on your phone. Whether it’s fingerprint or facial recognition, you’ll see it when you log in to your bank or u...
Xamarin Let’s Build - App Themes
The theme of your app is what makes it stand out, fit in with your brand identity and create a lasting impression. With Xamarin.Forms it’s simple to implemen...
Xamarin Tips - Screenshot your Android Phone from ADB
Having the ability to take a screenshot directly from your command prompt will save you a lot of time over the duration of a project. When I’m building an ap...
Automatic Dark Theme with Xamarin.Forms
Automatic theme switching is coming to Xamarin.Forms. In Xamarin.Forms 4.6 they added a new Experimental Flag called AppTheme_Experimental.
Detecting Dark Mode in Xamarin.Forms
You’ve gone to all the effort of implementing a dark (or light) theme for your latest mobile application, but your user opens the app, with their phone in da...
Supporting Dark Mode with Xamarin.Forms
Dark mode is a really popular colour scheme nowadays, phones have it built into their OS’s, mainstream apps support it, (Whatsapp, Twitter). But by default y...
Xamarin.Forms Navigation Events
Ever wanted to hook into a global navigation event for Xamarin.Forms? We’ve all seen the OnAppearing and OnDisappearing events in Xamarin, but did you know t...