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Publish smaller apps with the Android App Bundle

December 27, 2019 Dec 27, 2019 12/27/19

Jon Douglas

The Android App Bundle (.aab) is a new upload format that includes all of your app’s compiled code and resources, but defers APK generation and signing to Google Play at install time.

Xamarin Challenge: Santa Talk – Build an Intelligent, Serverless Xamarin App

December 23, 2019 Dec 23, 2019 12/23/19

Matt Soucoup

This Winter Solstice, give the Xamarin holiday challenge a spin for a chance to win awesome Xamarin swag by forking or cloning the Santa Talk repo and submitting to GitHub!

Xamarin Podcast: All The New 4’s: Xamarin Forms 4.4 and Visual Studio 16.4!

December 20, 2019 Dec 20, 2019 12/20/19

Matt Soucoup

Keep up with the latest in .NET, C#, Xamarin, and Azure with co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno! Covering a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. This month’s episode we’re all about the new 4’s! Xamarin.Forms 4.4 and Visual Studio 16.4!

Customer Showcase: Third Culture Apps’ Award Winning Xamarin Apps

December 17, 2019 Dec 17, 2019 12/17/19

James Montemagno

Third Culture Apps build beautiful and simple, yet powerful apps using .NET and Xamarin such as Ruff, the 2019 Google Material Design Award recipient, and Appy Weather, 2019 Best of Google Play award winning apps.

Get Moving with Xamarin.Forms 4.4

December 12, 2019 Dec 12, 2019 12/12/19

David Ortinau

Introducing a new CarouselView control in Xamarin.Forms 4.4. Along with IndicatorView for displaying the pages or items in the carousel. As well as SwipeView for providing contextual actions to any element in a CollectionView.

What’s New for Xamarin Developers in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4

December 5, 2019 Dec 5, 2019 12/5/19

Pierce Boggan

The Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 release brings major productivity enhancements including the GA release of XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms, smaller Android APKs, tooling to migrate your applications to Android X, and numerous performance and reliability improvements.

December Xamarin and .NET Events

December 2, 2019 Dec 2, 2019 12/2/19

Jayme Singleton

December is a wonderful time to discover Xamarin and .NET development. Explore all the latest news and updates with your community at developer events around the world, as well as find a bunch of virtual events to watch online!

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