Bemcheckbox

I’m happy to announce that BEMCheckBox v2.0.0 has been released! It is a open source library making it easy to create beautiful, highly customizable, animated checkboxes for iOS. You can find the install instructions here.

This a forked release as it does not appear the original project by Boris-EM is supported. If Boris-EM, or anyone else with access to original repo, is reading this I’m happy to merge my changes back. It should be noted that don’t have great track record of supporting my open source projects but I’m hoping to improve my stats.

I’m happy to announce the release of XPlugins.iOS.BEMCheckBox 1.4.3.  The main feature of this release is exposing the DidTapCheckBox event in the underlying BEMCheckBox.  You can find a full list of issues fixed in this release here.

The easiest way to get this update is via NuGet:

Install-Package SaturdayMP.XPlugins.iOS.BEMCheckBox -Version 1.4.3

dotnet add package SaturdayMP.XPlugins.iOS.BEMCheckBox --version 1.4.3

Subscribe to the DidTapCheckBox event as you would any other C# event:

checkbox.DidTapCheckBox += DidTapCheckBoxEvent;

The event handler looks like:

Notes I took while trying to fix the Incomplete Bitcode error in submission bug.  Not sure if it’s fixed yet as I haven’t tried submitting an app to the App Store yet.  Hopefully someone else will try it and confirm it’s fixed.

In summary when submitting an app to iTunes Connect that has the XPlugins.iOS.BEMCheckBox the user got the following error:

ERROR ITMS-90668: “Invalid Bundle Executable. The executable file ‘InstantApp.BoostOrder.Customer.Touch.app/Frameworks/BEMCheckBox.framework/BEMCheckBox’ contains incomplete bitcode. To compile binaries with complete bitcode, open Xcode and choose Archive in the Product menu.”

Several months ago I discussed how to manually build an objective-c project so it can be consumed by a Xamarin Binding Project.  In this post I show how to automate the building of the objective-c project.  In my case I need to automate the building of the BEMCheckBox project but hopefully you can generalize this specific example for your own needs.

For this post I’ll assume you have a TeamCity server setup along with a TeamCity build agent on a Mac.  For help installing a TeamCity server see the official documentation.  For help installing a Mac build agent please see my previous post and/or the official documentation.

This is the 4th and final part about incorporating an objective-c library in Xamarin.  In my case I’m binding BEMCheckBox.  In part 3 we used Sharpie to create a C# interface for the BEMCheckBox.  In this post we will show how to use that interface. Finally you can find a working example of BEMCheckBox in Xamarin iOS here.

First take the APIDefinitions.cs and Structs.cs files in a location accessible to Visual Studio.  Also take the BEMCheckBox.framework folder and move this location accessible to Visual Studio.  For me this means moving the files to my Windows computer.