David Ortinau

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Build 2018: Conference Vision Demo App

June 7th, 2018

At Build 2018 we shipped Xamarin.Forms 3.0. Did you miss the announcement? No worries, you can watch it here to catch up on many of the great new things that will help make you more productive building cross-platform mobile applications with C# and Visual Studio. In the few weeks leading up to the release, David Ortinau built Conference ...

Try the Latest Release of Xamarin.Forms 3.0!

May 7th, 2018

We are overjoyed to bring you our latest stable release of Xamarin.Forms, version 3.0. This is our fastest, richest release to date coupled with fantastic improvements up and down the Xamarin stack such as the latest XAML IntelliSense experience in Visual Studio 2017. When you upgrade to 3.0 you’ll discover new layout and styling ...