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How to set up login pin system
i want to set up basic login page in xamarin.forms. There is no username/password, just a simple pin
so far i have 3 pages to do this
Sign-up Pin page
Sign-up Confirm Pin Page (re-enter pin to ...
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Raising concerns on the codebase as a new hire
I'm new in the team (< 3 weeks) but I believe I am experience enough as a Xamarin dev to know what I'm doing and also experience enough on using Prism library to give some criticism on how things ...
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What's should I call a Location (Longitude and Latitude) associated with a DateTimeOffset? [closed]
In the Xamarin.Essentials library there is a Location class that comes with a DateTimeOffset TimeStamp.
I know I'm being pedantic and I should just move on - I know it's to indicate a location of the ...
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How to authorize and store user login from a xamarin frontend to a asp.net core api
So I suppose this question isn't as much as a 'How to' but a 'which way' kind of question.
So I have a .net core api backend that makes calls to a dB
I also have a xamarin forms project that ...
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Architecture to lock account to mobile device
I'm currently creating a mobile app and have the following issue.
I am required to only allow the user to login from a device that is registered to the users account. A user can have up to X number of ...
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What is the proper way to change the View from a ViewModel when using the MVVM pattern?
I'm trying to follow the Model–View–ViewModel pattern in a Xamarin application and am wondering how the View should be able to change when a given ViewModel is finished. Below I have listed the ideas ...
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Best way to manage services and exceptions
I have a mobile app who consumes a api service. I have a class to manage all the operations (get, post, put) who throws exceptions if the result is not 200.
The app was originaly designed to be ...
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How to decouple code behind with business logic?
I'm having a hard time to decouple two classes.
I have my code behind (will call it "class A") that I use to tweak the interface (defined in xaml).
Next I have a class B that is only logic. But ...
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Most convenient way to implement the models used by the Service Access layer of a Xamarin application
I am new to the Xamarin technology, and I am working on an Asp.NET Core Web application which basically delivers micro-services which will be consumed by a Xamarin.Forms application.
So my Web API ...
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How to properly architect app to display long forms with a lot of controls?
Basically, I've been tasked to work on a Xamarin.iOS app (predominantly for tablets only) that would display a long scrollable form that contains ~200 controls (buttons, switches, text fields, etc...)....
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Should I remove "everything" from my controller in MVVM?
I'm working with Xamarin and we are following the MVVM design pattern. For those who don't know what Xamarin is, it's a technology that allows us to build iOS and Android apps with shared code. ...
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WCF Server for a mobile apps (Xamarin.Forms)
I have a “whiteboard” question. Technically I’d like to ask you about one thing I’m not sure in my design, but if you have time for a quick review the rest of the design - that’d be great. Every tip ...
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Is blocking a UI thread sometimes a good idea?
Say, I created a custom button which includes some animation which is played when the button is clicked. The animation takes 500ms. During that time (until the animation is over), the button should ...
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Let Xamarin clients listen when server send an API
My situation
I will make a Xamarin application for Android that can access an ASP.NET MVC webserver with API's. The problem is when I'll send an API to the server, all the connected clients must ...
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