Get started with SQLite in from Xamarin.Forms Today I demonstrate how we can leverage sqlite to save data on mobile which can be useful for local application or to store cached data. In this post, I will show how we can use Sqlite from Xamarin.Forms in an Android application. This post will be composed by 3 parts: 1. Get Sqlite.net 2. Dependency service and database path 3. Use Sqlite from

Use Font Awesome from your Xamarin.Forms project Icons are important in mobile applications where space is limited. We use icon everywhere to convey action intent like + would be to add an item or a bin would be to delete one. There are two ways to add icons to our mobile app: with images with fonts Today we will see the second option - how we can add Font awesome to our Xamarin.Android project

Output logs in Console, File and Live stream for your WebSharper sitelet Logs are an important part of development. Extracting and analysing debug output and errors is very important especially when the web server goes live. In this post I will show how we can setup a Console target, a File target and a Live stream on a static HTML page using NLog. NLog is a log framework which can be configured

GIMP - Alpha channel, what is it? Few months ago I made a first introduction to GIMP - https://kimsereyblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/gimps-primary-features.html - the post was oriented toward the toolbox and what features were available. Today I would like to share an explanation on what the alpha channel is and show you how you can outline text using the alpha channel. 1. What is the alpha channel

Transform an operation from a Xamarin.Android activity to an awaitable task Today I want to share a neat trick which I have been using a lot - transform an asynchronous operation (triggered with StartActivityFromResult) from an Android Activity to an awaitable task - which then can be used with async await keywords in a Xamarin.Forms PCL project. Problem CustomPickActivity TaskCompletionSource