Month: March 2017

Xamarin forms, UWP Windows 10 App, TitleBar and Status bar customization

Enrico
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Customize the title bar of your Universal App for Windows 10 is quite easy, but you need to write different code for PC and Mobile. The class that allows you to customize the title bar: when running on a PC is called TitleBar when running on a Mobile is called StatusBar Before to call the API you first need to check if it exists (true if you are running on that platform): //PC customization if (ApiInformation.IsTypePresent( “Windows.UI.ViewManagement.ApplicationView”)) { var titleBar = ApplicationView.GetForCurrentView().TitleBar; if (titleBar != null) { titleBar.ButtonBackgroundColor = Colors.DarkBlue;…

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WebAssembly is now ready for browsers to use

Enrico

WebAssembly, a portable code format that could make for a faster web, has moved to minimum viable product (MVP) status, with browser vendors now able to switch WebAssembly on by default. A recent bulletin from Mozilla Senior Staff Engineer Luke Wagner said representatives of the four major browsers agreed that the design and binary format were complete to the extent that no further design work was doable without implementation experience and significant usage. Browsers represented included Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and WebKit, which is Apple’s browser engine for…

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