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    David Ortinau

    David Ortinau

    Principal Program Manager, Mobile Developer Tools

    David is a Principal Program Manager for Mobile Developer Tools at Microsoft, focused on Xamarin.Forms. A .NET developer since 2002, and versed in a range of programming languages, David has developed web, environmental, and mobile experiences for a wide variety of industries. After several successes with tech startups and running his own software company, David joined Microsoft to follow his passion: crafting tools that help developers create better app experiences. When not at a computer or with his family, David is running through the woods.
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    Visual Challenge Conquered!
    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

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    Join the Xamarin Visual Challenge
    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.

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    Beautiful Material Design for Android & iOS
    Beautiful Material Design for Android & iOS
    March 7th, 2019
    Boost productivity with the new Xamarin.Forms 3.6 release and the first iteration of Visual with a suite of Material design components for Android and iOS.

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    5 Things You’ll Love in Xamarin.Forms 3.5
    5 Things You’ll Love in Xamarin.Forms 3.5
    February 6th, 2019
    Take a closer look at 5 important updates we at Microsoft in collaboration with you, our fantastic contributors, are delivering in Xamarin.Forms 3.5!

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    The Future of Mobile Development: Xamarin.Forms 4.0 Preview
    The Future of Mobile Development: Xamarin.Forms 4.0 Preview
    December 5th, 2018
    Yesterday at Microsoft Connect(); 2018 we announced our plans for Xamarin.Forms 4.0 and shared a public preview. Let's now take a deeper look at the big changes, starting with Xamarin.Forms Shell, and then touch some of the other highlights.

    1DevelopersXamarin.Forms
    Xamarin.Forms 3.3.0: Little Things, Huge Difference
    Xamarin.Forms 3.3.0: Little Things, Huge Difference
    October 18th, 2018
    The Xamarin.Forms team has been working closely with our open-source community to help fill in the “little things”. Things you’ve told us are important to building your mobile apps and being supremely productive in the process. Since Xamarin.Forms 3.0 shipped at Build 2018, we have been collaborating with you to deliver over 20 new features and fixes. With many more on the roadmap!

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    Get Ready for iOS 12 and Xcode 10
    Get Ready for iOS 12 and Xcode 10
    September 19th, 2018
    Support for iOS 12 and Xcode 10 to accompany Apple’s Xcode Gold Master (GM) release has just been announced! We have also published updated documentation and samples to help you quickly get started with all the latest new features. Now, build your Xamarin.iOS (and of course Xamarin.Forms for iOS) applications with Xcode 10 GM and submit your iOS 12, tvOS 12, and watchOS 5 applications to the Apple App Store.

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    Xamarin.Forms 3.2.0 Released: Going Big with Little Things
    Xamarin.Forms 3.2.0 Released: Going Big with Little Things
    September 17th, 2018
    marin.Forms 3.2.0 continues the theme of previous releases to give you big wins by making little things much easier to do. The entire version 3 series has been about reducing the friction of doing such things as positioning the Android tabs to the bottom, controlling spellcheck and capitalization and prediction on text controls. There are even trivial improvements to setting ImeOptions, coloring various elements of switches and bars, and so many more.

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    Adaptive Mobile Designs with FlexLayout
    Adaptive Mobile Designs with FlexLayout
    August 3rd, 2018
    Xamarin.Forms is fantastic for quickly shipping a single code base to multiple platforms and devices. As soon as you are present on all those different screens, you need to make sure your UI looks as you expect, and even adapt the layout for your specific goals. FlexLayout makes this easier than before and provides new options for you to space and distribute your UI to suit different dimensions.

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    Xamarin.Forms 3.1: Improving the Little Things
    Xamarin.Forms 3.1: Improving the Little Things
    July 18th, 2018
    Earlier this year, we surveyed Xamarin.Forms developers about the kinds of custom controls and extra platform code being written repeatedly that should be considered for support “in the box”. From these conversations, we created an initiative to deliver as many as we could in the next several releases. Just six weeks after shipping Xamarin.Forms 3.0 at Build 2018, we are excited to introduce Xamarin.Forms 3.1 with a batch of those enhancements to make your lives easier. Now you can spend more time investing in your applications! In this article, we'll take a look at some of the highlights.

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