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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 we see discover flaws on iOS more often. Using an Android Emulator mostly, is not an option,

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Analyze a photo with Microsoft's Cognitive Services Vision API on Xamarin.Android

Microsoft’sCognitive Services are intelligent machine trained APIs that analyzed text, images, videos and more for you in the cloud and sends you back meta information about the provided content. They are free to use until a specific threshold and a nice easy to use thing to integrate in

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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 take much time if you need to rezise them manually. The Final Android Reziseris a free

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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 common and intuitive design pattern. Users canpull down from the top of apageto trigger

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Show a custom dialog in your Xamarin Android app

Sometimes you want to show your users a dialog that contains more than just text and buttons. In those cases the pre-defined <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/AlertDialog.html">AlertDialog</a>that come with Android will need some adjustment. Read

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Add a stylish Navigation Drawer to your Xamarin.Android application

These hamburger menus do not only look neat, they also provide a great way of navigating through an application and display additional information or quick settings. Since Google itself uses them in nearly every application users expect one of them when swiping from the left side of the screen. In

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Get rid of cables and Remote Debug your Android device!

Cables are a companion of our everyday life but a necessary evil. I personally avoid using them wherever it is possible and even charge my phone wireless. As a mobile developer you always have a bunch of cables in you bag but the time may come where we do not

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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 “Could not configure host-only network. Please reboot the computer and try again.” appears.This problem is caused