Keep Up to Date With the Latest Xamarin Docs

Craig Dunn

September 10th, 20191 0

The Xamarin documentation is the best source of information for building apps with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms. Follow the quickstart to build your first Android or iOS app with Xamarin.Forms. Then complete the tutorials to learn more about common mobile app concepts. Docs Home Page The docs also contain in-depth coverage of the Xamarin.Forms, Android, iOS, and Mac SDKs. These help you access the native features of all those platforms.

What’s New with Xamarin Docs?

Every month the team puts together a summary of docs updates. August marked the release of Xamarin.Forms 4.2 and ten new Xamarin.Forms user interface docs. As well as various updates, including a page refresh (or two!) to help with discoverability.

Additionally, Xamarin also featured the new Microsoft sample code browser in this launch: Docs New samples browser

All the Release Notes!

The site also contains the release notes for all Xamarin products. The Xamarin.Essentials team recently launched version 1.3 and migrated their release notes to this format: Docs Xamarin.Essentials release notes menu

Contribute to Docs

Like the Xamarin SDKs, the documentation is also open source. This means that anyone can contribute to documentation by submitting a pull request on GitHub.

Many thanks to the community members that generously devoted their time to contribute to documentation in August:

Nick Schonning
Timo Salomäki
Mohamed Elshawaf
Brian Runck
Chad Ramos
Michael DePouw
Sameer Khandekar
Mathew Grabau
Markus Gasser
Eric Mutta
Dmitri Plotnikov
Andreas Nesheim
Jared Ping
Buddy Reno
Yoichi Nakamura
Matt Cartwright
Kevin Bost
Edward Brey

Join them, and start contributing today! Small changes can be done right in the browser by pressing Edit in the doc header: Find the edit button in the doc header All contributions are welcome including typo fixes, Docs updates, and corrections. Get started by following the open-source contribution guides.