Being lucky to develop a backend and a Xamarin.Forms clients on your own? Sooner or later you will have to debug the API calls and it might become painful. Unless, you will follow the next rules:

Many years ago when I was at high school, I wrote a bot for a web browser flags quiz game, where a flag of a random country and 4 different country names where shown to the player. It was fun!

When it comes to a data storage for your application, there are multiple options. Depends on your needs you may choose a JSON file or a proper SQLite database. Some times you may need to convert a JSON to SQLite DB and that is the topic of the current post.

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Recently had to update some old Xamarin.Forms project to the latest and greatest XF and very quickly I realised that it is not going to be an easy task, since I had to manually manipulate the csproj files to remove the old nuget dependencies. I found myself going thru multiple projects multiple times in order to delete the “bin”, “obj” & “packages” directories to fix the miscellaneous build errors and I came up with a very simple script to recursively delete delete the “bin”, “obj” & “packages” directories:

Recently I updated my macOS to High Sierra however this broke my android emulators. Non of them started and logs showed something like:

Using a wildcard while building a View can be very convenient if you have to return all the columns from a table:

Xamarin components are easy to install, all you have to do is to download a zip, extract the content and to reference the dlls in your project. This would work if you download the component manually from components gallery. Same thing can be done using Visual Studio in a more robust way via ‘Components’ under the targeting platform projects. Either way, the component will be downloaded and installed only for a specific project.

Just discovered a hidden tool inside visual studio 2015. Many times I have to compare different files to see the diff. So far all the solutions were outside the IDE, but not anymore.