Thanks to the awesome guys at JetBrains and their Project Rider IDE, it’s now possible (unofficially) to develop Xamarin.Android apps on Linux. This is a basic project created with Project Rider and running on the emulator: Once I had a basic application up and running, I tried an application I’ve had in the store for […]
Dynamic capabilities were added to C# 4.0. These capabilities provide the ability to intercept method and property invocations. In certain situations, this is extremely useful, as seen in SignalR. I’m currently working on an XMPP library which parses a received XMPP Stanza into a class named BvElement. Abstracting from BvElement are classes such as IQ, […]
At Beyond Velocity we rely on XMPP for push notifications in many of our applications. XMPP is a messaging standard that uses extensible XML stanzas to communicate over a TCP/IP connection. There are a number of solid, secure, high performance, open-source XMPP servers available, such as OpenFire and EJabberd. To communicate with a server, you […]
