With over a billion users worldwide, Microsoft Office is already a premier platform for productivity, and with the release of Apps for Office, developers have a powerful new resource for extending and enhancing the suite of apps to solve new problems. In this series of blog posts, we’ll see how the Apps for Office platform […]
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Leveraging HTML and JavaScript, Microsoft has introduced a new app model for developing with and extending Office 2013, known as Apps for Office. This platform allows developers to create powerful and interactive features to enhance the Office experience. At Falafel Software, we’ve used this new platform to deliver two exciting new apps to our EventBoard […]
One of the minor issues we encountered when developing Falafel 2 Go was that on iOS, the ListView defaults the background color of the ViewCell to white. I’m not sure if this is an oversight, intentionally by design, or if it will be changed in the future, but we needed a way to make it […]
We previously looked at how to create User Controls with Xamarin Forms to display an Image Button for the different activities in our Falafel 2 Go application. Now that we have these reusable buttons, we need to make them tab-enabled so that they can launch the appropriate activity. As we’ll see in today’s post, this […]
In the previous post on making fancy layouts with Xamarin Forms we saw how you can design a Dashboard style application that stretches to fill any device size. However one of the challenges of the particular design we chose for Falafel 2 Go was the need to support the concept of an Image Button, where […]
We’ve already seen how Xamarin Forms makes it easy to create cross-platform applications that share common layout and behavior. While the included controls like ListView encapsulate a lot of useful behavior, they don’t make for the fanciest layouts. In early versions of Falafel 2 Go we had a simple ListView control as the main page, […]
We previously looked how to create a Xamarin Forms App using Azure Mobile Services for storing and retrieving data. However, up until now, we have been saving the data globally so that it is accessible to all users. This post will explore how to add device-specific authentication to each app so that users can register […]
This post continues the series on building a cross-platform app with Xamarin Forms. Although the focus is to demonstrate using Azure Mobile Services, there is a lot that we can do first to improve the user experience of the app. Today we will look at how easy it is to add a loading indicator as […]
In our last post (Creating Device-Specific Properties in Cross-Platform Apps with Xamarin Forms) we looked at how we can leverage Page Resources to create device-specific properties that can be reused across the page. Today we’ll look at how we can convert these and other reusable property definitions to global resources so that all of an […]
The previous post Cross-Platform Apps with Xamarin Forms and Azure Mobile Services demonstrated a simple Xamarin forms app to store and manage rebates. However, there were a few issues that impeded the user experience that should be polished up. Specifically, there are some discrepancies between the different platforms, such as different font sizes as well […]