Adapting to Enterprise and B2E Xamarin Forms App Development

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Enterprise or Business to Employee (B2E) mobile apps can be quite different from their B2C counterparts. B2C apps, tend to focus on a small number of screens or feed for their main usage, and additional screens are not as frequently used, but there to serve ancillary functionality as needed. B2E apps, are focused on function, normally recording or accessing data for their day to day job. Many of them are replacing hand written recordings, for digital records, that are automatically synchronized to the main database. The fact that these users…

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

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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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