Guest Blogger

Add Tizen Projects to Your Xamarin.Forms Applications

February 23rd, 2018

This is a special guest post from Jay Cho of the Samsung Tizen team. It's been a while since the first preview version of Tizen .NET was released. Thanks to the newest release, developing Xamarin.Forms applications with Tizen projects has never been so easy. Using the familiar Visual Studio IDE, you can now develop applications by ...

Delivering Rich Media Experiences with the Xamarin.Forms Video Player

January 9th, 2018

This is a guest post from Adam Fisher. Adam is the founder of Octane Software, focused on the creation of consumer Internet products. You can find Adam on Twitter at @adamgfisher and on Github at @adamfisher. Today we'll take a look at Adam's Xamarin.Forms Video Player component. Delivering an interactive and engaging experience is ...

Microcharts: Elegant Cross-Platform Charts for Every App

October 3rd, 2017

This is a guest post from Aloïs Deniel. Aloïs works at Orange Applications for Business as a Xamarin consultant. You can find him on Twitter at @aloisdeniel and on Github at @aloisdeniel. Displaying charts in mobile apps has always been a great way to offer users a clear overview of numerical data. In my time as a developer, I ...

Protecting Your Xamarin Apps with Dotfuscator

September 20th, 2017

This is a special guest post from Joe Sewell, a developer on the Dotfuscator team at PreEmptive Solutions. Let's be honest, releasing a library, desktop app, or mobile app can be a bit scary. Once your software is freely available to the world, you lose a certain degree of control over how it will be used. In particular, developers are ...

Introducing MFractor for Visual Studio for Mac

July 17th, 2017

This is a special guest post from Matthew Robbins at MFractor. You can find him on Twitter at @matthewrdev. Let's say you're a Xamarin.Forms developer and you're starting out on a brand new app: a single screen, T-shirt ordering app. You've got the specs, the backend is mostly done, and all that's left is for you to click File -> New ...

Building a Remote Control Companion App for Android with Project Rome

May 5th, 2017

This is a special guest post from the Project Rome team at Microsoft. Shawn works at Microsoft on the Project Rome team. You can find him on Twitter at @shawnhenry. Xamarin allows you to build mobile apps in C# for iOS, Android, and Windows. It's easy to share code across these platforms with Xamarin, but what if you want your mobile ...

Write Apps Faster with Ultimate UI Controls from Infragistics

May 2nd, 2017

This is a special guest post from the Infragistics. Infragistics Ultimate UI Controls for Xamarin is a range of productivity tools and beautiful UI controls that are ready to be customized and dropped right into your Xamarin.Forms projects for a lightning-fast native UI. Are you ready to speed up the process of writing your cross-...

Guest Post: Adding a Calendar to Your Xamarin.Forms Apps with the Telerik Calendar

April 18th, 2017

This is a special guest post from the Progress team at Telerik, the makers of the Telerik UI suites. Speaking on behalf of these awesome engineers of developer tooling is Sam Basu, a Developer Advocate for Telerik products and Xamarin aficionado. You may find him on Twitter as @samidip. Are you already building cross-platform native ...

Register for the Upcoming Webinar “Infragistics Ultimate UI for Xamarin”

March 29th, 2017

This is a guest post from the Infragistics team. Infragistics Ultimate UI for Xamarin pairs fast, beautiful, best-of-breed UI controls with visual developer productivity tools, empowering you to deliver high-performance, native customer experiences for multiple platforms without sacrificing development time. Native vs. Hybrid app ...

Play Audio and Video with the MediaManager Plugin for Xamarin

March 21st, 2017

This is a special guest post on MediaManager for Xamarin, written by Xamarin MVP, Martijn van Dijk. Martijn works at Xablu as a Xamarin consultant. You can find him on Twitter at @mhvdijk and on Github at @Martijn00. Media apps, more than others, benefit from working together with the native platform. Some things, like handling ...