Xamarin Studio: Unknown MSBuild failure. Please try building the project again

Originally posted on CHUNG VĨNH KHANG'S BLOG:
Khi lập trình trên Xamarin Studio, gặp trường hợp lỗi “Unknown MSBuild failure. Please try building the project again” có thể fix bằng các cách như sau: 1- Tắt đi mở lại Xamarin Studio 2- Clean solution, xóa bin 3- Kiểm tra lại trên đường dẫn…

Fix : “Images cannot contain alpha channels or transparencies”

When uploading an app to the Apple app store, I recently came across this issue while I was updating the screenshots and the App icon.  “Images cannot contain alpha channels or transparencies”   The fix is pretty easy. Open the image in the Preview app. Click File -> Export You may see the “Alpha” checkbox … More Fix : “Images cannot contain alpha channels or transparencies”

Navigation drawer with Auto-Layouts in Xamarin.iOS

I am back with another post about how to create a Navigation drawer with AutoLayouts and in Xamarin.iOS. This is something I struggled with quite recently while doing a project. We know, the iOS does not have an out of box solution for a Navigation Drawer/Menu. So I decided to go for the the  FlyoutNavigation. … More Navigation drawer with Auto-Layouts in Xamarin.iOS

Obtain Debug Key Hash and Release Key Hash (Windows OS)

In today’s post we shall see how we can obtain the Debug and Release Key Hashes for integration Facebook components into out Android application. These Key Hashes are important to be filled while registering your Android application on Facebook so that the application works without any issues in both Debug and Release modes. Debug Key … More Obtain Debug Key Hash and Release Key Hash (Windows OS)

Playing YouTube videos in Xamarin Android App – Part 2

In Part 1 we saw how we can obtain the initial requirements (ie. Developer key, Youtube video id etc.) for the Youtube API usage in our Android app. In this post we shall see how we can actually implement and add videos to our app by binding a .jar file. Let’s get started. Step 1> Download … More Playing YouTube videos in Xamarin Android App – Part 2

Playing YouTube videos in Xamarin Android App – Part 1

Few days ago, I had to work on a mini Android app which required playing of YouTube videos. The challenge was to do so using Xamarin. We have plenty of documentation available to achieve the same on the native Android like here . After searching for hours and failing to find any concrete documentation for playing YouTube … More Playing YouTube videos in Xamarin Android App – Part 1