Allan Ritchie
Co-Host of Gone Mobile
I'm a self-employed contractor bringing the mission of ".NET & Azure All The Things". I write end-to-end solutions primarily for mobile clients with Microsoft Azure & DevOps - It is a beautiful world to work in most days :)
I have over 20 years experience in software engineering. I love all things .NET and have been working with since the early 1.0 beta in 2001. My open source contributions over the years, started in NHibernate and some ASP.NET frameworks like Anthem for those who are old enough to remember that. Most of my notoriety these days in mobile OSS libraries. I adopted Xamarin when they were part of Novell and got an early start with a test library called Acr.UserDialogs. I have currently over 5 million downloads on NuGet across listed and unlisted packages.
I'm also a former Xamarin MVP and current Microsoft MVP.
Allan Ritchie has hosted 34 Episodes.
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89: Bound for greater Bindings
January 12th, 2024 | 53 mins 37 secs
bindings, dotnet, dotnet-maui
Bindings are often used to integrate native libraries into .NET MAUI apps. We talk about the challenges of creating bindings for Android and iOS platforms and some alternative techniques such as Slim bindings and Platform Channels for accessiong Swift/ObjC and Java/Kotlin code or libraries in your .NET MAUI apps.
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88: Return of Gone Mobile and the State of .NET MAUI
January 5th, 2024 | 48 mins 48 secs
dotnet, dotnet-maui
Gone Mobile returns after a several year hiatus! In this episode, Jon and Allan discuss the state of .NET MAUI, the challenges of mobile development, the benefits of using Blazor WebView in Maui apps and surprisingly more!