Build your own Line chart for Xamarin.Forms with Custom renderers (Part 1) Last week I needed a line chart to plot expenses. I had two choices: use an existing library or draw the chart myself on canvas. I decided to go for the second - draw the chart using the Android Canvas API. I chose this approach because it gives me full flexibility to create a style and behaviour that match perfectly my

What does DP, DPI, PPI and PX represent in Android? I’ve been playing with Xamarin Android for a while now and one thing that disturbed me when I started was the units of measure. What is the difference between DP, DPI, PPI and PX in Android? I found my answers in the Material design guide and today I would like to share my undertanding of the differences and bring a different explanation which

How to make a splash screen with Xamarin.Android The first time I had to implement a splash screen for a Xamarin.Android app, I was completely lost. Xamarin official documentation is great https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/android/user_interface/creating_a_splash_screen/ but without prior knowledge in Android, it is hard to follow. So today I would like to show you how you can create a splash

Build an accordion view in Xamarin.Forms Few weeks ago I posted about absolute and relative layouts. Layouts are called Layouts because they contain children which are placed in a particular way. Xamarin.Forms has a lot of layouts and views to structure pages like grid, table view or list view. Today I would like to show you how we can use some of these basic views to build an Accordion view.

GIMP’s primary features When working on personal projects, there’s one thing which use to always make me waste lot of time - art. Art in the sense of making logo, icon and other images like feature graphics or promotional images. Making something that looks “ok” is not as easy as it seems especially for people like me who have no sense of art whatsoever. Few weeks ago I completed Baskee and had