One of the facilities in my Mobile DMX app allows the user to back up all of their workspaces (light shows) into a zip file, which can later be restored. In the currently released Android version the backup can be written to a folder on the tablet, or saved on a PC by using the Windows Companion app. Continue reading “Adding iCloud support to a Xamarin app”
Tag: Xamarin
MS Test and NUnit
When I wrote my Socket library I also wrote a set of Unit Tests for it, using the MSTest framework built into Visual Studio. Now that I have released it, including a build for Android, I thought I had better run the unit tests on Android as well. Continue reading “MS Test and NUnit”
Dropbox support for Xamarin.Forms
The new Dropbox v2 API makes it quite straightforward to add support for Dropbox into an app running on a phone or tablet. When I decided to add Dropbox support to Mobile DMX it quickly became obvious, looking at the “SimpleTest” sample app, that the awkward part is logging in, but uploading and downloading small files would then be very easy. Continue reading “Dropbox support for Xamarin.Forms”
Xamarin.Forms Error CS0117
Now that I have completed the first release of Mobile DMX I thought would convert the project over from Xamarin Studio to Visual Studio. I wasn’t able to do this until recently because I have an “Indie Android” licence, which meant I had to use Xamarin Studio, but since MS have bought Xamarin I can now use Visual Studio (Xamarin Studio is deprecated), which is good.
Took a while, though. At first I was getting several hundred errors of the form
error CS0117: 'Resource.Attribute' does not contain a definition for 'mediaRouteSettingsDrawable'