Udara Alwis

Photography Enthusiast ? Amateur Photographer ? or anyone who seeks for Photography or photographers ? Having too much trouble going through hundreds of photos and albums ? searching for photography pages ? too much time waste ?

 “Sri Lankan Photography”

A Centralized portal for viewing all Sri Lankan Photography. View all Sri Lankan Photography that are published on facebook in one single…

XAMVVM-03 SpecFlow BDD UnitTesting with Xamarin.Forms!

Let’s explore the possibilities of the awesome SpecFlow Behavior Driven Testing Framework with Xamarin.Forms!

I’m a huge enthusiast of writing clean and highly testable code, and in that pursuit, I believe Test Driven Development for the win! 😉 Oh also, UnitTesting for life yo! 😛

Problem with just UnitTests!

They’re very useful when we need to sure there’s nothing broken in the logical…

XAMVVM-02 UnitTesting with Xamarin.Forms!

Thinking of how to adopt Testing practices into your Xamarin.Forms project, in this world of test driven software development? 😉 You’re about to find out!

Yes, you can easily incorporate UnitTest cases into your Xamarin.Forms project just like any other .NET solution, and there’s plenty of ways to do with several test frameworks.

As for the sake of clarity let me start off with a bit of…

Playing Audio with the MediaManager Plugin for Xamarin.Forms!

Let me show you how to play Audio in Xamarin.Forms across Android, iOS and Windows UWP using the super easy plug and play MediaManager Plugin.

So you wanna play Audio in your Xamarin.Forms app? Stream an audio file over the internet or stored locally in your device Gallery? Listening to songs or podcasts even when the app is in background mode or device is locked away? Then you’re in the right…

So I took up on TravelMonkey, the Xamarin + Cognitive Services Challenge!

Let me share my little adrenaline filled panic adventure into earning some awesome Xamarin Swag! from the Xamarin + Cognitive Challenge hosted by Microsoft, the TravelMonkey Challenge! 😀

Well it’s come to 2020, in the middle of a pandemic, a lock down, and it’s been a while since I took up on an actual challenge outside my work and personal coding experiments! Then I suddenly came across this…

Overriding Back Button in Xamarin.Forms Shell…

Let me share all about overriding the Back Button navigation in Xamarin.Forms Shell applications, oh and yes! it includes handling the Android on-screen back button as well! 😉

This topic has been quite a confusing and wobbly area in Xamarin.Forms for the longest time, even I remember having to write numerous customer renderers, and hacks to just to get this simple handle done, overring the…

Welcome to my Blazing Pizza Store! ;) #Blazor #WebAssembly #ASP #DotNetCore #Learning

Here’s how I built my Blazing Pizza Store with the awesome .NET Blazor framework… Oh and let me share a quick recap of the awesome knowledge I gained from it!

So recently I embarked on a journey to learn the latest awesomeness of .NET sphere, the Blazor framework, just so that I would be able to leverage some good old C# into the Web and get rid of having to code in JavaScript! :3 lol

Well…

Winning a Special Award at ICTA e-Swabhimani Competition 2014

Oh yeah ! xD One of the most awesome moments in my entire life was when they announced… 😀

“ICTA e-Swabhimani competition’s e-Entertainment and Games section SPECIAL AWARD goes to Sri Lankan Newspaper Cartoons project by Udara Alwis ! “

OMG ! 😀 that moment of unexpectancy, thinking that I would have no chance among the big companies I competed with during the competition…

WOHOOOOOOOOO ! 😀 Thank…

Project: Sri Lankan Memes Book!

Welcome to the first ever largest Sri Lankan Memes collection ! The most awesome place for Sri Lankan Memes ! (^_-) Join with us today…

So are you Bored at Home ? or Work ? 9gag much ? a Memes fan ? Welcome to the first ever largest Sri Lankan Memes collection ! Join Sri Lankan Memes Book today for the most awesome Sri Lankan Memes entertainment…

Visit our official Website – http://srilankanme…

The amazing journey I had as a Microsoft Student Partner..

I always loved building things, and solving problems, which is one of the reasons why I got into Software Development in my early higher studies. I would always look at any problem or requirement, and try to come up with a solution to fix them, with my passion for technology, even if I’m not able to solve it I would seek out and self-learn the knowledge and skills required.

I remember back in…

I have jump started App development for Windows 8 Store since couple of months back now, whereas I kept on getting more and more addicted to it as a hobby. So I thought of sharing some of the Applications I have developed and published so far.

Click on each heading or the screenshot, to view them in Microsoft Store ! 🙂

Sri Lankan Photography

The first Centralized portal for showcasing all the Sri…

Are you preparing for one of the most special events of your life, your Wedding ? The moment that you start a new life with your loving lifelong partner ? or Are you a Wedding Planner ? or a Wedding Photography enthusiast ? Then you must certainly be looking for Wedding Photographers and their Photography !

Have you been wasting a huge amount of time, searching, asking around, looking into…

Yes ! The official ReadMe app is out !  Now you can check out and stay up to date with all the articles and Facebook updates on the go ! Windows Phone users, time to grab it !

Developed by ÇøŋfuzëÐ SøurcëÇødë and my buddy Nisal ‘Cheezy’ !  \m/

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/readme/6da04d34-0b47-48dd-b34a-2749c8cb47b6

Here’s some goodness of it…

Give it a try yol! 😉

Restructuring the Xamarin.Forms Shell Default App Template... #Xamarin #XamarinForms #Shell

Let’s restructure the default project Template for Xamarin.Forms Shell Apps provided by Visual Studio 2019, clean it up, optimize it for the best use of Shell features. 😉

To be more detailed when you create a fresh Xamarin.Forms Shell app, in Visual Studio 2019, you get a certain default template app project provided by VS2019, let me show you how to restructure it in a clean and optimized…

Let me share the journey of me publishing the Nuget Package of my interactive Color Picker Control for Xamarin.Forms that I built using SkiaSharp.

So some time back I built an Interactive and responsive Color Picker Control for Xamarin.Forms (Android, iOS, UWP) with a whole bunch of awesome features. On a Canvas with a beautiful Color spectrum similar to a rainbow gradient effect spreading…

Coming Soon… And it is gonna blow your Mind… I Was There Map !

This is what happens to people like us when we are bored.. -_- specifically for me, I was dead bored at home waiting till my big corporate job started right after finishing my degree ! 😛 Therefore just to kill the boredom I thought of, wouldn’t it be cool if there was a way to see all the places that i have checked in so far on facebook ! Of course you can on facebook, but its  a little…

Welcome to ÇøŋfuzëÐ SøurcëÇødë Tech Innovations !

Welcome to the ignition of Tech Innovations in Sri Lanka. We are a Sri Lankan based company that focuses on Technological Innovations and pushing the the boundaries beyond the Imagination.

  I have always been extremely passionate about Innovation and Creativity, and as a result of that I used to invent new things using whatever I learned. Even back in School Days I used to develop new…