Differences between Internal and External Folders in Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.Forms When using Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Android, chances are that you had at one point of time to access a local file. Whether it is an image or a text file or even a local sqlite database, accessing a file from a Xamarin.Android project can be confusing. Today I will show you how you can get the absolute path of

Why I created Baskee? Few days ago, I released my first Android app Baskee built with Xamarin and F#. https://www.kimsereylam.com/baskee In this post, I would like to share with you the most common questions my friends asked me and I hope it will help you understand better why Baskee is useful for you! This post answers the following questions: 1. Where did the idea come from? 2. What are the

Fix adb server is out of date killing... Last week I showed you how to fix the error adb server version doesn't match... with Xamarin.Android - https://kimsereyblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/fix-installfailed-error-adb-server.html when trying to deploy an application built in Xamarin.Studio to a Genymotion VM. This was caused by two different versions of ADB being installed on the machine. One

Use Android Snackbar for your Xamarin Android project from Xamarin Forms The Snackbar API is a sleek way to provide notifications in Android. Here’s how it look like: You might have noticed the usage of it in applications that you use daily like Chrome, get the notification that the tab was closed. This is the snackbar. Today we will see how to use the snack bar api with Xamarin Android and how

Fix INSTALL_FAILED adb server version doesn’t match Xamarin.Android Today I would like to share with you how you can fix the following problem: INSTALL_FAILED /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/External/xbuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Common.Debugging.targets: Warning: error: could not install *smartsocket* listener: Address already in use ADB server didn't ACK * failed to start daemon *