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Complex UI with FastGrid for Xamarin.Forms

January 30, 2019 Jan 30, 2019 01/30/19

Slava Chernikoff

In this guest blog Slava and team show you how to use FastGrid for complex Xamrin.Forms user interfaces to create a great native experience and how they use it as a customizable white box component.

Android’s D8 dexer and R8 shrinker

January 28, 2019 Jan 28, 2019 01/28/19

Jonathan Peppers

Learn more about Xamarin.Android’s D8 and R8 integration and deep dive on how R8 is being developed for Xamarin.Android and D8 as the next-generation DEX compiler to speed up and shrink Android apps.

What’s New for Xamarin Developers in Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2

January 23, 2019 Jan 23, 2019 01/23/19

Pierce Boggan

Today, Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 was released and includes many improvements for mobile developers in Visual Studio. This release, we focused on key areas to make you more productive when authoring Xamarin apps, including optimizations to build and deployment times as well as improvements to our UI authoring experiences.

The Xamarin Podcast: New Year – New Pod!

January 18, 2019 Jan 18, 2019 01/18/19

Matt Soucoup

This episode includes a discussion of Matt's latest community office hours (and you can sign up for office hours at https://aka.ms/office-hours), Hockey App moving to Visual Studio App Center, Xamarin University's retirement, Xamarin.Essentials becoming a video star, and the brand new .NET Community Stand-Ups.

Introducing the .NET Community Standup Series

January 17, 2019 Jan 17, 2019 01/17/19

James Montemagno

As the .NET community expands so should the community standups, which is why we are pleased to introduce the expansion of their community standups that we officially call the “.NET Community Standup” series. These community standups span multiple teams and products in the world of .NET and show off the amazing work the community is doing.

Xamarin.Forms 3.5: A Little Bindable Love

January 11, 2019 Jan 11, 2019 01/11/19

andrei nitescu

In this guest post Andrei shows off his BindableLayout contribution that is now available in Xamarin.Forms 3.5 to turn any Layout into a layout with a bindable item template.

Hackathon Superweapon: F# and Fabulous

January 10, 2019 Jan 10, 2019 01/10/19

Larry O'Brien

Let me introduce you to F# Functional App Development using Xamarin.Forms with the Fabulous project, which brings the Elmish Model-View-Update (MVU) architecture to Xamarin. It is a great way for F# developers to rapidly build mobile applications as you will see in this blog post.

Xamarin and .NET Community Events in January

January 2, 2019 Jan 2, 2019 01/2/19

Jayme Singleton

It's a new year with tons of new and awesome community-run events scheduled this month. Get the full list of mobile developer engagements happening all over the world through our Community page.

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