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Utilising Autofill in an Xamarin Forms Android App


With the introduction of Oreo, Android announced a new feature called Autofill which allows form elements to be supplied with user data from system wide data providers. Learn how to use this within your Xamarin Forms apps by creating a Platform Specific Effect which can update your Android label.

02/09/2018

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Adding shortcuts to your app's icon


App Shortcuts provide users with quick actions into our apps that enhance the UX. They can be static, where they're declared as part of the app's manifest, or can be added dynamically through code. Learn how to add App Shortcuts in a Xamarin Forms app, using the AppShortcuts Plugin.

30/08/2018

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Animation in an Angular app


Animations, providing they are done right are an essential part of a good UX. Although CSS3 provides a rich animation library, Angular enriches this to provide a extensive array of effects. See how you can use both Angular and CSS to animate a hamburger menu containing a dynamic list of menu items.

28/08/2018

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Building a TimePipe in Angular


Angular's DatePipe does a great job of formatting Date strings or objects into specified formats, however, if you want to pass in a time string like "09:00" you're out of luck. Here's a Pipe which extends the standard DatePipe in order to provide that functionality.

25/07/2018

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Power up your Terminal


Get all the goodness of PoshGit from within your Terminal along with a few other helpful features

10/06/2018

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Welcome to my new blog


Life's getting on a bit, so I thought I'd better fire up the ol' blog again.

08/05/2018

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Aden Earnshaw

Hi, I'm Aden, a .Net dev from the north of England. I try and build apps but sometimes give up and play guitar instead.

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