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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,

MaterialFrame leveled up with a Blur theme!

MaterialFrame leveled up with a Blur theme!

Get it from Github and Nuget: https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.MaterialFrame Sharpnado.MaterialFrame gets its own github repository to showcase all its theming power: * Blur * Acrylic * Dark * Light The Blur theme supports 3 different blur styles based on iOS UIVisualEffectView: * Light * Dark * ExtraLight On Android it has advanced blur

On library versioning: Minimum version and AndroidX migration

On library versioning: Minimum version and AndroidX migration

https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.Presentation.Forms Last version of Sharpnado lib includes MaterialFrame with Acrylic mode, but also the compatibility with Xamarin.Forms 4.5 and AndroidX. Since version 4.5, Xamarin.Forms android platform dll is compiled against AndroidX when targeting Android 29 and Android.Support libs on

Sharpnado 1.5 goes Acrylic! MaterialFrame with dynamic themes

Sharpnado 1.5 goes Acrylic! MaterialFrame with dynamic themes

Lib Version Sharpnado.Presentation.Forms Sharpnado.Presentation.HorizontalListView Github: https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.Presentation.Forms Now it was kind of a undocumented feature, but since the first version of Sharpnado's lib, there is a little thing called MaterialFrame, which was at the beginning just a Frame with Elevation support.

Dark/Light Mode: Dynamic themes in Xamarin.Forms

Dark/Light Mode: Dynamic themes in Xamarin.Forms

A short one today to talk about theming on our beloved Xamarin.Forms platform. I will use the Silly App! to showcase: * Changing xaml properties value dynamically * Switching between light and dark mode * An animated transition between the themes Android iOS The main impacted files by the theming are: * App.

Xamarin.Forms.Nuke: iOS native image caching for Xamarin.Forms

Xamarin.Forms.Nuke: iOS native image caching for Xamarin.Forms

A binding of the Nuke iOS image caching library for Xamarin.Forms. Get it from Github: https://github.com/roubachof/Xamarin.Forms.Nuke This library was heavily inspired by Jonathan Peppers GlideX implementation of the IImageViewHandler interface for Xamarin.Forms (https://github.com/jonathanpeppers/glidex). Its goal is to provide

TaskLoaderView & Lottie Best Friends Forever

TaskLoaderView & Lottie Best Friends Forever

You should all know Lottie by now! If you don't let me just tell you that it's an amazing way to give an identity to your app. Lottie is a cross platform library created by Twitter, then wrapped in a cool Xamarin.Forms view by Martijn van Dijk. Thanks to

Sharpnado's Xamarin.Forms XamlStyler config file

A quick post here to highlight a must-have visual studio extension that I really love: XamlStyler It helps you to get a consistent xml formatting between all your xaml files by setting rules in the Settings.XamlStyler config file, or directly in the extension. It's available for VS 2017/2019

Sharpnado 1.4.0: Drag and Drop and Refresh!

Sharpnado 1.4.0: Drag and Drop and Refresh!

Lib Version Sharpnado.Presentation.Forms Sharpnado.Presentation.HorizontalListView Github: https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.Presentation.Forms Release notes Improvements * added material dark theme to MaterialFrame: elevation is converted to dark background according to: Material dark theme specs * 85 added IsDraggable property to DraggableViewCell to prevent the dragging of chosen items

TaskLoaderView 2.0: Let's burn IsBusy=true!

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TaskLoaderView 2.0: Let's burn IsBusy=true!

This post is the natural follow-up to my Free Yourself From IsBusy=true from the XamExpertDay in Cologne: https://twitter.com/Piskariov/status/1188825195831857153 The TaskLoaderView component is freeing itself from the Sharpnado.Presentation.Forms repo and is receiving a lot of new features! * User custom views * Skeleton loading * ErrorNotificationView

TaskMonitor: Free Yourself From async void and MOAR

TaskMonitor: Free Yourself From async void and MOAR

I first wanted to call this "yawtodwav" (yet another way to deal with async void), but I finally went for "Free Yourself From async void", which is a shameless and lazy way to surf on my previous adventure. https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.TaskMonitor The TaskMonitor was inspired by Stephen

Tab me more: Scrollable tabs and circle Button in tabs

Tab me more: Scrollable tabs and circle Button in tabs

Version 1.3.0 of the Sharpnado toolkit is here \o/ https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.Tabs Scrollable tabs A new Property TabType was added to the TabHostView: public TabType TabType public enum TabType { Fixed = 0, Scrollable, } TabButton Sometimes your designer wants to spice-up a bit the bottom bar tabs

The Run Away! app part 2: Drawing curves with SkiaSharp

The Run Away! app part 2: Drawing curves with SkiaSharp

This article is the follow-up to https://www.sharpnado.com/run-away-app/. In the previous article I talked about the challenge of displaying gradient lines on top of Google Maps, on this article I will go through some of the questions and issues I raised previously, and add a nice functionnality

The Run Away! app: Drawing gradient lines on top of Maps with SkiaSharp

The Run Away! app: Drawing gradient lines on top of Maps with SkiaSharp

Part 2 is here: https://www.sharpnado.com/drawing-curves-with-skiasharp/ The most wanted piece Since the Xamarin.Forms: it works post, this feature was the most wanted piece. Hi Roubachof, Hope all is well. I can across your sharpnado site and was impressed with what you were doing with xamrin and

Xamarin.Forms LazyView: boost your app reactivity and startup time

Xamarin.Forms LazyView: boost your app reactivity and startup time

History behind it Just a quick post today before the big one of Xamarin UI July :) When I was coding the Exalt Training app, I had to face the sad reality of android startup time. Of course I fired up the magical AOT (not so magical for apk size), but

Ultimate Image Caching for Xamarin.Forms

Ultimate Image Caching for Xamarin.Forms

WARNING: obsolete package The FFImageLoading.ImageSourceHandler nuget package has been discontinued. Use the Xamarin.Forms.Nuke package instead which has better performance. https://github.com/roubachof/Xamarin.Forms.Nuke See this blog post: https://www.sharpnado.com/xamarin-forms-nuke/ Abstract and Nuget The FFImageLoading.ImageSourceHandler was inspired by Jonathan Peppers GlideX

"Pure" Xamarin.Forms tabs: bottom bar tabs, underlined tabs, custom tabs, egg and tabs, tabs bacon sausage and tabs

"Pure" Xamarin.Forms tabs: bottom bar tabs, underlined tabs, custom tabs, egg and tabs, tabs bacon sausage and tabs

TABS! TABS! TABS! TABS! [1] We love tabs. Since we learnt that hamburger menu was the master of UIvil, every one is embracing tabs for their app navigation. Android added bottom bar navigation in their supports libs years ago, and iOS apps stole the android tab layout. Admit it: you

Carousel layout + auto item size + column count = Happy New HorizontalListView !

Carousel layout + auto item size + column count = Happy New HorizontalListView !

A big update has been released for the Sharpnado.Forms.Presentation and the Sharpnado.HorizontalListView nuget packages: v0.9.8: https://github.com/roubachof/Sharpnado.Presentation.Forms It includes some real nice features and fixes some inconsistencies. Carousel layout is coming to town The ListLayout property of the HorizontalListView has

Paginator: a platform-independent infinite loading component

Paginator: a platform-independent infinite loading component

First a HorizontalListView request First, being an old sport, I was flattered that a young fellow calls me “mate”. Second he was right: this list couldn't paginate... So it was the perfect time for me to introduce a component I reused countless times in many of the projects I worked