Andrew Hoefling

Speaker | Mentor | Coder | Leader

When adding custom animations to your Xamarin Applications don't immediately jump to the custom renderers and platform specific code, it is not needed. Often overlooked the Xamarin.Forms Animation APIs can usually handle your mobile apps animation needs. The APIs are built right into the platform so you can be confident your code will work across the platforms your application is being built for.

Azure Mobile App Services sets you up with a nice template builds all of your boiler plate code. When I went through the setup on the Azure Portal and downloaded the template locally I ran into all sorts of issues with iOS not working in my Xamarin.Forms project. Everything appears to work without issue on Android but I couldn’t get the MobileServiceClient to load, the app would just crash. After lots of digging and playing with the tools provided I figured out what was wrong. It appears the template was missing some platform specific code for iOS.