Visual Challenge Conquered!
Last week we issued a challenge to the Xamarin community to use the new Material Design controls with Visual by reproducing an existing screen. The view should look and behave mostly the same on both...
View ArticleGetting Started With WorkManager
If you need to schedule a background task on Android, you’re probably familiar with all of the various ways to accomplish this such as: Google Cloud Messaging Firebase Cloud Messaging DownloadManager...
View ArticleSharing Files & Email Attachments with Xamarin.Essentials Preview Features
In the recent release of Xamarin.Essentials (1.1.0), we introduced several new stable features including detect shake, browser customization, and a plethora of platform helpers. The team has also been...
View ArticleXamarin Podcast: Visual Studio 2019 is released!
The Xamarin Podcast features Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno discussing the latest and greatest in Xamarin and cloud development. Podcast Highlights Visual Studio 2019 has been released and is...
View ArticleGetting Ready for macOS’s Hardened Runtime and Notary
With macOS Mojave, Apple introduced support for Hardened Runtime and Notary service. These two services are designed to improve application security on macOS. Recently Apple has stated: “Beginning in...
View ArticleThe New & Improved Xamarin Developers YouTube Channel!
We are so excited to re-launch our Xamarin Developers YouTube channel! Here you will find fresh content on building amazing mobile apps directly from the Xamarin team here at Microsoft. To kick things...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms 4.0 CollectionView Challenge
During March, many of you made submissions to our Visual Challenge. Your feedback has been extremely valuable and you all put together some impressive samples! As a follow up in this series, we now...
View ArticleShrinking Your Android App Size
Mobile devices are limited in many ways. Whether it’s how much of a charge your battery can hold, the amount of storage you have left, or the speed of your internet connection to view more cat gifs. We...
View ArticleCustomer Showcase: Aggreko
We are excited to announce a new inclusion to our Xamarin Showcase gallery: The Aggreko Technician App A key objective of Aggreko’s company-wide Aggreko18 digital transformation program was to...
View ArticleXamarin and .NET Developer Events in May
Learn about new, exciting releases and tools to help jumpstart your next mobile development project by networking with your local community. You too could get all the latest updates about Xamarin and...
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