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The DelayedView: a better LazyView

The DelayedView: a better LazyView

https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.Tabs You may know the LazyView, which builds lazily the views it wraps. Doing so, it reduces your page loading time, especially if you have complex pages. So the lazy view is great for reducing your loading time, but not so great to keep your

Falotier Riverpod: a 'real life' state management PoC (Part 1)

Falotier Riverpod: a 'real life' state management PoC (Part 1)

Hi there! This is my first Flutter post, \(• ◡ •)/ Full app code here: GitHub - roubachof/falotier_riverpod: The purpose of this PoC is to implement main real life app use cases and see if the selected state management library elegantly supports all the needed mutations. The select state management library

Full customizable Tabs for MAUI

Full customizable Tabs for MAUI

Here it is! Sharpnado.Tabs is now migrated to dotnet MAUI \o/ https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.Tabs You will find all your beloved features including: * Fully customizable * Underlined tabs, bottom tabs, Segmented control, scrollable tabs * Vertical tabs * Lazy and Delayed views * Material tabs specs full implementation * SVG support thanks

MetroLog.Maui: logging taylor-made for Maui

The amazing performance-driven MetroLog logging library was finally ported to .net 6 and MAUI!

Xamarin.Forms/MAUI CollectionView performance issue: it's your own damn fault.

Xamarin.Forms/MAUI CollectionView performance issue: it's your own damn fault.

So I have seen a lot of people complaining about the performance of the CollectionView on Xamarin.Forms and soon it will be the same with Maui... If you have a laggy list, it's true there are some issues with the implementation of vanilla XF CollectionView (especially with DataTemplateSelector and

Migrating a Xamarin lib to MAUI: TaskLoaderView (1/2)

Migrating a Xamarin lib to MAUI: TaskLoaderView (1/2)

https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.TaskLoaderView Hey hey hey! Long time no see! I'm a bit busy with a personal artistic project that will be released later this year... But hey, I won't miss the MAUI wave \o/ So as you may know, I have several Xamarin.Forms components on

Xamarin.Nuke: a Xamarin binding for the iOS image caching library

Xamarin.Nuke: a Xamarin binding for the iOS image caching library

https://github.com/roubachof/NukeProxy Today's guest: The one and only Cheese Baron! I know the cheeeese since my MVVMCross days when we were binding C# code on native views like aristocrats. For me he is one of the pillar of Xamarin open source community. So I was super happy

Sharpnado.CollectionView 2.0 is reborn with header/footer and drag and drop

Sharpnado.CollectionView 2.0 is reborn with header/footer and drag and drop

https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.CollectionView Version 2.0 breaking changes: no more HorizontalListView The mighty Xamarin.Forms HorizontalListView has finally been renamed CollectionView \o/. Historically, the HorizontalListView, was just uh, and horizontal list view :) But thanks to the power of UICollectionView and RecyclerView, I quickly extended it with grid

Sharpnado.Tabs 2.2: Material Design Tabs and Geometry (SVG) icon support

Sharpnado.Tabs 2.2: Material Design Tabs and Geometry (SVG) icon support

Tabs version 2.2.0 is here \o/ https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.Tabs What's new? Material Design tabs specs full support Contributor: @mkanyo (Miklos Kanyo) A new type of tab has been introduced: the MaterialUnderlinedTabItem. It's a full implementation of the material tabs specifications: https://material.io/components/tabs

Sharpnado.MaterialFrame for macOS

Sharpnado.MaterialFrame for macOS

Get it from Github and Nuget: https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.MaterialFrame Hello World ✌ My name is Joachim Leonfellner, online I usually go by nor0x or johnny_leo. I'm an indie developer based in Vienna, Austria but trying to be remote as much as possible so traveling is one of

Even better drag and drop with DragAndDropTrigger and DragAndDropDirection

Even better drag and drop with DragAndDropTrigger and DragAndDropDirection

WARNING the HorizontalListView has been renamed to CollectionView since version 2.0. https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.CollectionView DragAndDropTrigger and DragAndDropDirection You can now choose if you want to begin the drag and drop with a Pan gesture or a LongPress. * DragAndDropTrigger="Pan" * DragAndDropTrigger="LongTap" You can also restrict the

Build C#9 with AppCenter

Build C#9 with AppCenter

First I must confess something. I think that appcenter is one of the best devops tool on the market: * It's super intuitive * It's super easy to setup * Distribution is a blessing * You can organize a close beta test with no pain * Diagnostics are super powerful * You can attach logs to

Bind MVVM Async Commands to Snackbar and Loading dialog

Bind MVVM Async Commands to Snackbar and Loading dialog

https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.TaskLoaderView If you don't know yet about the TaskLoaderView, I can only say this: "This is a component that will allow you to save a huge amount of time by making your project safer." -Elbert Einstein- Remember all those pesky IsBusy, HasErrors, IsRefreshing, showing alerts

Xamarin.Forms vertical Tabs and HorizontalListView drag and drop

Xamarin.Forms vertical Tabs and HorizontalListView drag and drop

Tabs version 2.1.0 and HorizontalListView v1.8.1 are here \o/ (and also MaterialFrame v1.1.4) https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.Tabs WARNING the HorizontalListView has been renamed to CollectionView since version 2.0. https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.CollectionView What's new? Vertical Tabs PR by @nor0x

Sharpnado.HorizontalListView 1.8: reveal animations

Sharpnado.HorizontalListView 1.8: reveal animations

WARNING the HorizontalListView has been renamed to CollectionView since version 2.0. https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.CollectionView Version 1.8 breaking changes Namespace changed from Sharpnado.Presentation.Forms.HorizontalListView to Sharpnado.HorizontalListView. HorizontalListView, like MaterialFrame, Tabs and Shadows, now uses the same xml namespace: http://sharpnado.com. Because of

Sharpnado.Tabs 2.0: Xamarin.Forms tabs receive a Badge of honor

Sharpnado.Tabs 2.0: Xamarin.Forms tabs receive a Badge of honor

https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.Tabs * Fully customizable * Underlined tabs, bottom tabs, Segmented control, scrollable tabs * Badge on tabs * Component oriented architecture * Layout your tabs and ViewSwitcher as you want * Shadows included in TabHost * Bindable What's really new * A BadgeView with a lot of customization * Full UWP support! * Bindable layout

Shadows and MaterialFrame blur: Performance Updates

Shadows and MaterialFrame blur: Performance Updates

https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.MaterialFrame https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.Shadows Shadows gets itself a BitmapCache Well it was a bit of a journey (https://www.sharpnado.com/shadows-leaks/), but Shadows gets finally its BitmapCache \o/ With this cache for a given Color, BlurRadius and Size, only one instance

Hunting Xamarin.Forms Shadows leaks on Android

Hunting Xamarin.Forms Shadows leaks on Android

So I was testing the brand new BitmapCache for Android I created for Sharpnado.Shadows. I was getting sure that the reference count for each shadow bitmaps was correctly decreased and/or removed (when count reaches 0). I was happy with the result after stacking different MainPage of my Shadows

TaskLoaderCommand: a bindable AsyncCommand for Xamarin.Forms

TaskLoaderCommand: a bindable AsyncCommand for Xamarin.Forms

https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.TaskLoaderView A short blog here to showcase a undocumented feature of the TaskLoaderView: the TaskLoaderCommand. You probably read many blogs about how you should implement a AsyncCommand instead of a regular Command for your Task based code. Of course, like all async mvvm patterns, the

Shadows for Xamarin.Forms components creators

Shadows for Xamarin.Forms components creators

Get it from Github and Nuget: https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.Shadows Sharpnado.Shadows has been architectured with modularity in mind. The goal is to make it easy to integrate into others Xamarin.Forms components. In Shadows, each platform renderers relies on Controllers (iOS and UWP) or View (Android) that

TaskLoaderView comes back in Style with DataTemplate

TaskLoaderView comes back in Style with DataTemplate

https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.TaskLoaderView Since version 2.0, the TaskLoaderView supports custom views for your Tasks states. So you can define, for example, really cool Lottie views with great animations. Aug 10, 2020 — 5 min read

Gittrends lags: A Tale Of CollectionView and Garbage Collector

Gittrends lags: A Tale Of CollectionView and Garbage Collector

Previously on Game of Leaks I'm super interested by what is causing precisely the many GC collections. Will try to dig into this. https://t.co/qnrfFMSZjR — Jean-Marie Alfonsi (@Piskariov) July 14, 2020 So here is what I dug so far:) First I forked the Gittrends repo, and checkout the

Xamarin.Forms Segmented Control with Sharpnado 1.7

Xamarin.Forms Segmented Control with Sharpnado 1.7

https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.Tabs A fresh new version of the Sharpnado lib is here \o/ Featuring: * Segmented Control (iOS style) * TabHostView with custom shadows * Sharpnado.Shadows v1.0.2 * MaterialFrame with AcrylicBlur v1.1.1 As always find all the following code in the Silly! app repo here:

Sharpnado.Shadows: add many shadows to any Xamarin.Forms view

Sharpnado.Shadows: add many shadows to any Xamarin.Forms view

Get it from Github and Nuget: https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.Shadows Supported platforms: * Android * iOS * UWP Read the doc on https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.Shadows. Presentation Add as many custom shadows as you like to any Xamarin.Forms view (Android, iOS, UWP). * You can specify each shadow Color,