David Ortinau

Get Ready for iOS 13 and Xcode 11

September 13th, 2019

Support for iOS 13 and Xcode 11 to accompany Apple’s Xcode Gold Master (GM) release has just been announced! Now, build your Xamarin.iOS (and Xamarin.Forms for iOS) apps with Xcode 11 GM and submit your iOS 13, tvOS 13 and watchOS 6 apps to the Apple App Store.

Modernizing iOS Apps for Dark Mode with Xamarin

August 30th, 2019

Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Forms deliver native iOS experiences for iOS 13 Apple which introduces dark mode: A system-wide option for light and dark themes to choose themes or allow iOS to dynamically change appearance based on the environment and time of day.

Xamarin.Forms 4.1.0 Stable Now Available

July 8th, 2019

Today we are happy to announce Xamarin.Forms 4.1 availability on NuGet. Our 3.0.0 series of releases focused heavily on growing Xamarin.Forms by filling in the “little things” we learned from you that should be available by default.

Migrating MacOS Apps to 64-bit Before the Apple Transition

June 26th, 2019

Apple has been moving towards 64-bit only applications on macOS for a number of releases. Though new Xamarin.Mac applications target 64-bit by default, any existing Xamarin.Mac applications that target 32-bit must be migrated to 64-bit to continue working in the future. Learn more.

CheckBox with Xamarin.Forms 4.1.0 Pre-Release

June 5th, 2019

Xamarin.Forms 4.0 introduced the new Shell navigation and image source unification. Today, we are shipping a pre-release of our next version, Xamarin.Forms 4.1 which introduces a CheckBox control.

Xamarin.Forms 4.0: Getting Started with Shell

May 28th, 2019

Xamarin.Forms 4.0 introduced amazing new features to help streamline development when building beautiful mobile apps with C#. In this blog we will walk through the brand new Xamarin.Forms Shell that helps simplify application structure when working with tabs, search, flyout layouts, and the new URI-routing navigation.

Welcome to the Shell Era: Xamarin.Forms 4.0 Released

May 21st, 2019

Announcing Xamarin.Forms 4.0.0 with Shell, a simplified container for efficiently managing your application’s structure and navigation. Walk through the highlights and go deeper with Shell on how to get started, the available navigation UI, and the powerful features you can leverage with the new URI based navigation service.

Getting Ready for macOS’s Hardened Runtime and Notary

April 15th, 2019

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 order to run. In a future version of macOS, notarization will be required by default for all software.”

Visual Challenge Conquered!

April 3rd, 2019

Last week we issued a challenge to the Xamarin community to use the new Material Design controls with Visual by reproducing an existing screen. The view should look and behave mostly the same on both Android and iOS. The goal for us was to learn if the new Visual feature was easy to use, how helpful the Material Design controls were for meeting design needs, and what we should do next to make this capability really sing. You really took to the challenge and exceeded our expectations

Join the Xamarin Visual Challenge

March 22nd, 2019

Over the past month, we have been running a low-key challenge to flex the new Xamarin.Forms 3.6 feature, Visual with Material Design. For more information about what Visual is and what you can do with it, hit the blog announcement. Now through the end of March, we're upping the stakes.