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 …
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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 …
The Business Strategy of Collectibles in Smash Bros Ultimate
I just got Super Smash Bros Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch. The controls feel great, the stages look incredible, and the cast of characters is amazingly large. The Smash Bros …
How to Upload a Xamarin.Forms App To the App Store
We’ve written a few Xamarin.Forms tutorials on the HangZone blog lately. Maybe you’ve even made a Xamarin.Forms app of your own! It’s easy to deploy these apps directly to your …
A Programming Demonstration of Frame Rules in Super Mario Bros.
If you’ve ever spent any time on Twitch, you’re likely familiar with speed running. Essentially, gamers try to complete video games as quickly as possible. Often aided by glitches and …
How To Make A Custom EntryCell in Xamarin.Forms
Xamarin.Forms is an excellent cross-platform tool for enterprise apps that don’t require a lot of platform specific functionality. These sort of apps tend to have a lot of tableviews for displaying …
Font Awesome Icons in Xamarin.Forms
Xamarin.Forms is a powerful tool that allows you to build native apps for iOS, macOS, Android, and UWP, largely from a single codebase. This codebase is able to then render …