Taming the Android Activity, Part 3

In the parts one and two of this series I covered how to use a Fragment to maintain state through configuration changes and how to launch a new Activity and wait for its results using async/await. In the third part I take this a step further and show how to get direct access to a new (in-process) Activity instance so that you can call methods on it, use events, or whatever else you need to do.

Blurred Image Renderer for Xamarin.Forms

In response to a recent Xamarin forum post I spent some time building a custom Xamarin.Forms renderer for a blurred image on iOS and Android. Read on to learn how I did it.

Taming The Android Activity, Part 2

In part one of this series I covered how to use a Fragment to maintain state through configuration changes. In part two I will cover how to launch a new Activity (in-process or not) and wait for its results using C#'s async/await feature.