James Montemagno

Lock Screen Music Controls in Xamarin.Android

January 16th, 2014

Streaming audio in a background service with Xamarin.Android allows developers to create amazing user experiences. In my last post I walked though how to setup the a basic streaming service with a notification that your users could interact with. In Ice Cream Sandwich (API 14) Google introduced the RemoteControlClient, which exposes ...

Background Audio Streaming with Xamarin.Android

January 13th, 2014

Music & Audio is one of the top 10 categories on Android with beautiful applications like Rdio that takes advantage of great native audio features such as Background Streaming to create an amazing user experience. It is extremely easy to get audio streaming in a background service with Xamarin.Android. Using a service to stream audio ...

iOS 6 & 7 Compatibility Tips

January 9th, 2014

In just a few months iOS 7 has found its way to over 80% of all iOS devices. Xamarin announced same day support when iOS 7 launched and it is easy to upgrade your app when developing with Xamarin.iOS. Apple recommends first redesigning your app for iOS 7, and then if you have structural or navigational changes to bring them over to the ...

January Mobile C# Developer Meetups

January 2nd, 2014

The Xamarin user group community is kicking off 2014 with a bang. This January is the perfect time to find a user group in your community to connect with local developers and discuss a vast array of topics. This month's topics range from Monetization Strategies and Payment Processing, App Showcases, Intro to MvvmCross, Building iOS ...

Android Support Library v7: Hello ActionBarCompat

December 11th, 2013

To provide backwards compatibility for new features and controls in Android, Google regularly releases a set of support libraries that developers can integrate into their application. You might already be very familiar with Support Library v4, which gives developers that want to provide support all the way back to Android 1.6 (v4) with ...

Multi-view Edit with the Xamarin.Android Designer

December 4th, 2013

Included in the latest releases of Xamarin Studio 4.2 and Xamarin.Android 4.10 in Visual Studio is an exciting new feature in the Android designer, multi-view editing. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9DCL8b9u58] Android layout management brings a unique approach to optimizing for different screen layouts and sizes by using ...