android Easy tricks to boost the native Android integration of your cross-platform apps Most mobile developers write their Mobile Apps on a Mac, which makes it super easy to quickly test them in the iOS Simulator. Naturally, this results in prettier iOS than Android apps, as
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android Useful Developer Tools #3 - Final Android Resizer When developing forAndroid you quickly come to a point where you need images rezised for different screen densities. While most icons you can download comes in different sizes, creating own images could
android Swipe to refresh your Xamarin Android app Most apps that deal with online data have implemented a refresh mechanism. If you want to enable your users to trigger this on their own, providing a“swipe to refresh” implementation is a
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android How to fix Xamarin Android Player in Windows 10 If you have recently updated your PC to Windows 10 you might have noticed that our beloved Xamarin Android Player does not work anymore. Whenever we try to start it, the error message