xamarin Archives - Brian Lagunas

What’s New in Prism for Xamarin.Forms 7.0

January 12, 2018Posted by Brian Lagunasin Prism, Xamarin

Go grab some snacks and drinks, because this is going to be a long one. It’s been 10 months since the last stable release of Prism 6.3, and there have been a ton of changes since. We have been getting tons of great feedback, fixing…

Xamarin University Guest Lecture – Prism + Xamarin.Forms Navigation

January 10, 2018Posted by Brian Lagunasin Prism, Video, Xamarin

One of the most complicated aspects of writing an MVVM based Xamarin.Forms application is navigation. Not only is navigation specific to a Page instance, but each Page can have its own modal and non-modal navigation stacks. On top of that, the INavigation interface has a…

Mocking and Unit Testing the Xamarin.Forms Application class

July 10, 2017Posted by Brian Lagunasin Xamarin

I have been working on Prism for Xamarin.Forms for a long time now, and one thing kept causing me nothing but headaches… testing anything that involves the Xamarin.Forms Application class. I had a work-around in place for awhile now, but it started causing me issues…

Xamarin University Guest Lecture – Intro to Prism

May 4, 2017Posted by Brian Lagunasin Prism, Video, Xamarin

Learn how to leverage Prism to create well-structured and maintainable Xamarin.Forms applications while using common design patterns and practices such as MvvM, dependency injection, commands, event aggregation, and more.

Prism 6.3 Release

April 13, 2017Posted by Brian Lagunasin Prism, UWP, WPF, Xamarin

It has been 7 months since the last release of Prism 6.2, and I have been hard at work trying to make it better. I have fixed a number of bugs, added a number of new features, and unfortunately introduced a number of breaking changes. …

Prism for Xamarin.Forms 6.2 Release

August 18, 2016Posted by Brian Lagunasin Prism, Xamarin

This moment has been a long eight months in the making. I have ignored my wife and children for days at a time, coded late into the nights and over the weekends getting ready for this moment. A lot of work went into today. The…

Xamarin Evolve 2016 Slides and Sample Code

May 10, 2016Posted by Brian Lagunasin Prism, Video, Xamarin

On April 27th, 2016 I gave a session at Xamarin Evolve called “MVVM Made Easy with Xamarin.Forms and Prism”. This was my first time at Evolve and I must say, it was a great event. I was especially excited about all the support Prism received…

Prism for Xamarin.Forms 6.2.0 Preview 3

January 20, 2016Posted by Brian Lagunasin Prism, Xamarin

Over the last month-and-a-half, I have been busting my butt trying to get Prism for Xamarin.Forms ready for prime time. Since the first preview release back on Dec 3rd, I have release two more previews. Today’s newest release is Prism for Xamarin.Forms 6.2.0 Preview 3. …

Prism for Xamarin.Forms 6.2.0 Preview

December 3, 2015Posted by Brian Lagunasin Prism, Xamarin

Back in March I released the first preview of Prism for Xamarin.Forms. Since then, there has been a ton of great feedback from the Xamarin community. Today, I am happy to announce the next evolution of Prism for Xamarin.Forms available now on NuGet as a…

Infragistics Webinar “MVVM Made Simple with Prism” Sample Code

July 1, 2015Posted by Brian Lagunasin Infragistics, Prism, Video, WPF, Xamarin

On June 30th, I presented a joint webinar for Infragistics and Pluralsight titled “MVVM Made Simple With Prism”. Unfortunately, the first 5 minutes didn’t get recorded. Here is the abstract from that webinar: “WPF developers have been using the MVVM design pattern since it was…