Building amazing multi-platform solutions for iOS, Android, Mac, Linux and Windows
With the transition from UWP to WinUI and from Xamarin iOS/Android to .NET for iOS and Android, we’re seeing the convergence of application development in the .NET ecosystem. This convergence shouldn’t be undervalued and is particularly evident when you realised that all of these once disparate platforms, can now take advantage of the common tooling … Read more
One of the challenges with developing cross platform apps for iOS, Android, Windows, Web, Linux etc is that at some point you’re inevitably going to need to spend some time focusing on each individual platform. Optimising startup performance is one of those cases. In this post we’re going to start looking at the how and … Read more
Over the last week I’ve been exploring different ways to measure the time it takes for an app to launch and be ready for the user to interact with. I’ll go into more detail on this topic in subsequent posts but I wanted first to take a bit of a side track into thinking about … Read more
In my previous post on using multi-targeted cross platform projects I showed how you can add additional target frameworks to allow the addition of platform specific code to a library. One of the downsides of this approach (versus perhaps using a shared project) is that the library gets built once for every target framework that’s … Read more