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VSTS and Xamarin CI & CD

In Evolve 2016 Visual studio team services (VSTS) team has made an awesome presentation about managing Xamarin apps with VSTS . This talk inspired me to try this new experience. In this post we are going to configure build pipeline for Xamarin iOS and will add to that the integration with HockeyApp and Xamarin Test Cloud. Steps Configure build agent. Create a new build definition for our app. Publish app to Xamarin Test Cloud.

Intoduction to OrientDB

OrientDB is the 2nd generation of NoSQL databases, we could name as NoSQL 2.0 because it combines the power of document both document and graph databases. I talked about it in Sydney alt.net meetup. [slideshare id=61369868&doc=orientdb-abdo-160426130334]

Xamarin CI / CD with Bamboo and HockeyApp

I decided to write this post, only if It will add a value to someone, so please like this post if it will add a value to you :) Thanks

Installing Windows 10 on a Raspberry PI Using VM

After a lot of tries, I figured out how to install windows 10 on my raspberry from a windows 8.1 VM: Hardware: USB reader. 16 GB micro SD card. Raspberry PI 2 Installation Steps: Install windows 10 ADK technical preview (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=526740) on windows 8.1 VM. Navigate to the installation folder which in my case was “C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits”, then navigate to 10\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Imaging and Configuration Designer\x86 Run ICD.

Xamarin - WebView Calling C# Code From JS

I’m writing this post to document how can we trigger c# code from javascript in (Android & iOS) WebView applications, each different platform has a different way for handling this scenario as following: Scenario: We have a hybrid app that needs to mark page as favourite a link is clicked inside a WebView. iOS: We need to add url handler so for e.g. assume we have a page we need to mark this page as favourite from JS will be calling a url like this one “myapp://favourite?