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Apr 30, 2019
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Xamarin and .NET Developer Events in May

Jayme Singleton
Jayme Singleton

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 .NET related technologies, including details for all the Microsoft Build 2019 Viewing Parties!

EventsDevelopers
Apr 23, 2019
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Customer Showcase: Aggreko

Jayme Singleton
Jayme Singleton

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 streamline field operations and revolutionize their technician processes.

DevelopersCase Studies
Apr 22, 2019
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Shrinking Your Android App Size

Jon Douglas
Jon Douglas

When it comes to application size, bigger is not better. In fact, it’s one of the key factors a user takes into mind when considering installing or uninstalling your application. Imagine if a user ran out of space on their device and your app was one of the biggest offenders for used space. It would be quite a shame for your application to be one o...

AndroidDevelopers
Apr 19, 2019
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Xamarin.Forms 4.0 CollectionView Challenge 

Paul DiPietro
Paul DiPietro

We’ve just published a new pre-release of Xamarin.Forms 4.0 which includes the very latest features and improvements for both CollectionView and Shell. Update today via your NuGet package manager. Try out this new

Xamarin.FormsDevelopers
Apr 18, 2019
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The New & Improved Xamarin Developers YouTube Channel!

James Montemagno
James Montemagno

We are excited to re-launch our Xamarin Developers YouTube channel where you will find fresh content on building amazing mobile apps directly from the Xamarin team at Microsoft. We have teamed up with our community and built a video to show off this channel.

Xamarin PlatformDevelopersEducation
Apr 15, 2019
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Getting Ready for macOS’s Hardened Runtime and Notary

David Ortinau
David Ortinau

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 macOS 10.14.5, all new or updated kernel extensions and all software from developers new to distributing with Developer ID must be notarized in ord...

macOSDevelopersXamarin Platform
Apr 12, 2019
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Xamarin Podcast: Visual Studio 2019 is released!

Matt Soucoup
Matt Soucoup

Keeping up with the latest in .NET, C#, Xamarin, and Azure is easier than ever. Cohosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. Be sure to subscribe to the Xamarin Podcast on iTunes, Google Play Music, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app.

EventsDevelopersXamarin Platform
Apr 10, 2019
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Sharing Files & Email Attachments with Xamarin.Essentials Preview Features

James Montemagno
James Montemagno

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 also added the top requested features: file sharing! It is extremely easy to get started using these new preview features with just a few lines of code.

Xamarin PlatformDevelopers
Apr 8, 2019
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Getting Started With WorkManager

Jon Douglas
Jon Douglas

Give a warm welcome to WorkManager. WorkManager is a library that makes it easy to schedule deferrable, asynchronous tasks even if the app exits or the device restarts. It was designed to be backwards compatible to API 14 and does so by wrapping JobScheduler, AlarmManager, and BroadcastReceivers all in one.

AndroidDevelopersEducation
Apr 3, 2019
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Visual Challenge Conquered!

David Ortinau
David Ortinau

Last week we issued a challenge to the Xamarin community to use the new Material Design controls with

Developers