A Study in Flutter: Dynamic FormsA recent requirement came up for configurable dynamic forms in a mobile application. There are a few dynamic form packages for Flutter, but I wanted a bit more control over the schema and behavior of the form. Here follows my attempt at creating dyna...Jul 25, 2023·7 min read
How to publish a NuGet Package to GitHub Packages – The Quick WayIn the previous blog post, How to publish a NuGet Package to GitHub Packages, I’ve shown you hot to publish your NuGet package to GitHub Packages using the NuGet CLI. Today, I’ll show you a way that is a little bit easier by using the Quick GitHub Pa...Nov 5, 2020·2 min read
How to publish a NuGet Package to GitHub PackagesOverview At Coalition Software we have a number of in-house libraries for a variety of tasks such as sending email, managing multi-tenant applications and utilities for working with Cosmos Db. Previously, to share these types of utility projects, yo...Nov 2, 2020·3 min read
Xamarin Forms – Creating a Gradient HeaderIn the design document for the Doctriod app you would’ve noticed that it uses a gradient header. To achieve a similar effect (shown in the screenshots below) in Xamarin Forms, we need to make changes in the Shared, Android and iOS project. Shared P...Apr 22, 2019·2 min read
Xamarin Forms–Creating a Gradient Drawer MenuAfter more than a year of hiatus of writing blog posts, I’m back. This post is the first in a series that was originally intended to form part of a book called “From Design to App Store – Building a Xamarin Forms app using Adobe XD and Prism”. Pretty...Mar 31, 2019·2 min read
Creating a movie app using Xamarin.Forms and Prism – Part 2In the previous post, Creating a movie app using Xamarin.Forms and Prism – Part 1, we went through the process of creating and setting up a new Xamarin. Forms project using the Prism library and Visual Studio. In today’s post, we’ll go through the st...Jan 23, 2018·4 min read
Prism Library Quick Tip – SnippetsThe Prism Template pack, available on Visual Studio Marketplace, offers a collection of helpful snippets to speed up your development. To use the snippets in Visual Studio, simply type the shortcut (e.g. propp) and press TAB. Here is a quick list of ...Jan 11, 2018·2 min read