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I got a question from a reader last night who was looking at some code from one of my Xamarin seminars. Ryan asked about how to extract the content from a pdf file, draw on it, and email it in iOS. One way to do this is using Core Graphics, as shown in the following…Read more Reader Q&A – PDFs in iOS
My friend @lobrien (whose blog you should read if you don’t already) was asking about loading Collada files in Scene Kit, so I whipped up a quick example: SCNScene scene; SCNView sceneView; SCNCamera camera; SCNNode cameraNode; public override void ViewDidLoad () { scene = SCNScene.FromFile ("duck", "ColladaModels.scnassets", new SCNSceneLoadingOptions ()); sceneView = new SCNView (UIScreen.MainScreen.Bounds); sceneView.AutoresizingMask…Read more Load a Collada File in Scene Kit
Someone asked a question in the Xamarin forums last week about the scratch ticket code I wrote a while back, so I decided to update it to work with the unified API and show how to get an image from the view, which is what the person in the forums was asking for. One thing…Read more Updated Scratch Ticket Code
Apple Watch has fantastic support for converting speech to text. However, there isn’t any direct API access to the text to speech engine in WatchKit. You can get access to it in your apps though via the Apple provided text input controller. You can open a text input controller via WKInterfaceController’s PresentTextInputController method. For example,…Read more Voice Dictation with WatchKit and Xamarin
Microsoft just announced a new cross-platform editor that has many of the features of Visual Studio called Visual Studio Code. I downloaded it on my Mac to try out with a Xamarin.iOS project and see if it works. I was pleased discover it works out of the box (as far as I can tell on…Read more Visual Studio Code with Xamarin on a Mac
Frank Krueger published a new open source graphics library called NGraphics today. As with everything Frank does it looks pretty awesome. It even has its own editor where you can type in code and live preview the output. So you probably won’t need what I’m about to show you, but I was curious if it…Read more NGraphics in a Xamarin Sketch
A new version of Sketches just landed in the latest Xamarin Studio alpha. Let’s take a look at a couple new things that have been added. In the previous version, images could be loaded in a sketch given the path on disk. Now, you can add a .Resources folder next to the sketch file, with…Read more Sketches in Xamarin Studio Alpha