Build Time Improvements in Xamarin.iOS 6.4 Xamarin.iOS 6.4 has significant build time improvements, and there is now an option to only send updated bits of code to the device. See for yourself: (source: xamarin.com) Read more and learn how to enable incremental build in Rolf’s post. Evolve 2013 Video An updated and expanded version of … Read more
Just want a tool? If you just want to download something that does this for you, there is also the MS Solution Launcher or the older Xamarin Studio Launcher v3. Presumably, it does something similar to the script below but comes in a nice pre-built app with a distinct icon you just copy to your … Read more
You might want to look into the MonoCross project which is designed to help you reuse C# code with multiple presentation layers: http://code.google.com/p/monocross/ The authors of MonoCross (ITR Mobility) have created multiple mobile cross platform solutions for a variety of customers and have written two books on the subject one is “iPad in the Enterprise” … Read more
Put this in AppDelegate.cs: [DllImport (“libc”)] private static extern int sigaction (Signal sig, IntPtr act, IntPtr oact); enum Signal { SIGBUS = 10, SIGSEGV = 11 } static void EnableCrashReporting () { IntPtr sigbus = Marshal.AllocHGlobal (512); IntPtr sigsegv = Marshal.AllocHGlobal (512); // Store Mono SIGSEGV and SIGBUS handlers sigaction (Signal.SIGBUS, IntPtr.Zero, sigbus); sigaction (Signal.SIGSEGV, … Read more
No need to rebuild the .ipa Upload the .ipa Send invitations to testers Add their devices to provisioning profile Download the approved profile Go to TestFlight builds >> Permissions >> Upload profile … Click Send Email/Update You’re done – the new user get’s the link to download the app. Hope that helps.
I have shipped a non-trivial app written with Xamarin. Many others have as well. “Garbage collection” isn’t magic. If you create a reference that is attached to the root of your object graph and never detach it, it will not be collected. That’s not only true of Xamarin, but of C# on .NET, Java, etc. … Read more
You can also try this and its probably the best solution I found : if(Device.RuntimePlatform == Device.iOS) { //iOS stuff } else if(Device.RuntimePlatform == Device.Android) { }
I’ve just encountered this exception running a Xamarin app on the simulator. It started occurring after I toggled the software keyboard off while debugging the app. Given the exception mentioning the keyboard I think that’s what caused it. Uninstalling the app from the emulator, cleaning and rebuilding fixed the issue for me. Unsure if this … Read more
I got a UIRefreshControl to work with a UIScrollView: – (void)viewDidLoad { UIScrollView *scrollView = [[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 500, 500)]; scrollView.userInteractionEnabled = TRUE; scrollView.scrollEnabled = TRUE; scrollView.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor]; scrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(500, 1000); UIRefreshControl *refreshControl = [[UIRefreshControl alloc] init]; [refreshControl addTarget:self action:@selector(testRefresh:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged]; [scrollView addSubview:refreshControl]; [self.view addSubview:scrollView]; } – (void)testRefresh:(UIRefreshControl *)refreshControl { refreshControl.attributedTitle … Read more
If you want all of our navigation controllers to respect the top view controller you can use a category so you don’t have to go through and change a bunch of class names. @implementation UINavigationController (Rotation_IOS6) -(BOOL)shouldAutorotate { return [[self.viewControllers lastObject] shouldAutorotate]; } -(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations { return [[self.viewControllers lastObject] supportedInterfaceOrientations]; } – (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation { return [[self.viewControllers … Read more