How to Make a Location Check-In App in Xamarin.Forms Part One
It’s been about ten years since Foursquare launched their mobile check-in app. In case you missed out on that trend, the original Foursquare app was all about checking into locations …
Local Security Measures in Xamarin.Forms
There are many types of mobile apps where security is of the utmost importance. When dealing with banking, payment, health, or other sensitive information, it is crucial to keep data …
Custom Renderers in Xamarin.Forms Part 2
In part 2 of our custom renderer blog post, we will continue to look at uses for custom renderers in Xamarin.Forms. In part 1, we made a navigation page in …
Custom Renderers in Xamarin.Forms Part 1
Xamarin.Forms is a great tool for cross platform app development. It gives you the ability to write shared code that is used by different operating systems. Not only are you …
How to Fetch Stock and Currency Quotes for iPhone
When I’m not writing apps, I like to follow stocks. I’ve even had the opportunity to combine those interests in the past with quantitative trading strategies. We’ll keep things simple …
How to Add Core Location to our Weather App
It’s been over a year since we tackled weather on the HangZone blog. Longtime readers may recall our original weather app tutorial, followed by our five day forecast tutorial. In …
How to Transfer Data More Efficiently with DTOs
Let’s say you’re building an application with a SQL database stored in the cloud. You’ve written a web API which you can call from you app to interact with the …
How to Make Your First Apple TV App
We’ve written extensively on iPhone and iPad development in the past, but never covered the Apple TV. As you may know, you can mirror the screen of your iPhone or …
Data Binding and Model-View-ViewModel in UWP Part 2
This tutorial starts where Part 1 leaves off. If you haven’t read it, you can find it here. As a quick refresher, we are creating an application that highlights data …
Data Binding and Model-View-ViewModel in UWP Part 1
Data Binding is a powerful and important tool in Windows development. Whether targeting UWP, WPF, Xamarin.Forms, or something else, binding is crucial to your app design. The idea of binding …