With over 130 unique permissions available to Android developers, it’s hard to know exactly which ones to specify. Worse yet, it’s not only scary for your app’s users to see just how many permissions you require, but it’s increasingly difficult to explain why you need so many permissions. Android Marshmallow introduces an entirely new spin […]

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Have you ever tried to drop shadows from CardViews? Did those happen on pre-Lollipop but don’t on newer ones? Did you look for “android cardview shadow issue lollipop” and find just a few answers and none of them worked? Do even the shadows margins are just there, you can see those? CardViews in Google Now. […]

Last week we decided to start with test-first development using XUnit.  To get underway, let’s create a  new Xamarin.Forms application called BlogProjectTracker. Once the projects are created we’ll return to the solution and add a new .NET project of type Portable Library … Continue reading →

You know the quality of your mobile experiences is paramount—that’s why you test your apps with Xamarin Test Cloud. And we know that testing your apps on the latest operating systems is a critical part of setting the quality bar high. That’s why the team at Xamarin worked hard to be the only cloud testing solution to […]

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