Xamarin Going Native: Using Android Views In Xamarin.Forms We previously walked through how to get started with a cross-platform Xamarin.Forms project, but what if we started with an Android app built in Android Studio? Here's a way to re-use a lot of our Android code and layouts with Xamarin. In the previous post, we customized
Xamarin Xamarin.Forms: A Fire TV Quick Start How hard is it for a .NET developer to build a Fire TV app with C#? With the right tools, it's pretty easy
Android Obfuscating Shared Preferences in Fire TV Apps What's the best way to keep secure data in our local Android or Fire TV shared preferences? Well, don't do it. If someone's curious enough, it's not too hard to dig into the Android file system to look at a particular app&
Fire TV Abstracting Analytics: RxJava Observers in TV Apps Sometimes analytics are nice to have. Sometimes they're critical, like in our Fire TV apps we just published on Amazon. Content providers and distributors are always negotiating who can show what content (and for how much). However, I imagine it's much harder to turn down the
Best Practices Terrible Technical Talks (and how to avoid giving them) Have you attended a presentation on the hottest bleeding-edge technology and the presentation turned out to be less exciting than watching the paint grow (or the grass dry)? When it comes to technology, I don't learn by watching somebody else do it; I have to do it myself.
TDD Why I Became a TDD Sith Lord My enforcement of Test-Driven Development has earned me a lot of nicknames. There's Test <insert name of WWII-era German socialist party>1. Some people "lighten it up" to Test<last three syllables of a Nicaraguan socialist party>2. I personally prefer TDD
