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Jan 28, 2020
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Xamarin Goes Dual Screen

Shikha Kaul
Shikha Kaul

Surface Duo introduces a whole new class of ultra-portable experiences running on dual screens. Today we are excited to announce our public preview of the SDK for Surface Duo. Xamarin developers can take advantage of the new SDK to enlighten existing apps and create innovative experiences that inspires creativity.

Jan 28, 2020
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Announcing dual-screen preview SDKs and Microsoft 365 Developer Day

Shikha Kaul
Shikha Kaul

In November, we shared our vision for dual-screen devices and how this new device category will help people get more done on smaller and more mobile form factors. Today, we are excited to give you an update on how you can get started and optimize for dual-screen devices by:

Jan 23, 2020
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DevOps for Android App Bundles (Xamarin)

Shikha Kaul
Shikha Kaul

Android App Bundle is a new app packaging format from Google for Android applications that dramatically reduces the install size for end users. Traditionally, when building an Android app, one would create one large APK file that all users would receive. When packaging your app in an App Bundle, applications are delivered dynamically to users based...

Jan 23, 2020
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Removing older images in Azure Pipelines hosted pools

Shikha Kaul
Shikha Kaul

Over the past year, we have been able to update Azure Pipelines hosted images faster than ever before. We have also rolled out new images – Windows Server 2019 with Visual Studio 2019, Ubuntu 18.04, and macOS Mojave 10.14. We have seen a phenomenal growth in the use of hosted pools.

Jan 21, 2020
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Collecting and analyzing .NET memory dumps

Shikha Kaul
Shikha Kaul

Building upon the diagnostics improvements introduced in .NET Core 3.1, we’ve introduced a new tool for collecting heap dumps from a running .NET Core process.