James Montemagno

Snppts Community Challenge

November 1st, 2019

We are excited to announce our first ever community challenge featuring Snppts: a community-run Xamarin.Forms UI snippets aggregate. Simply submit a snippet to be eligible for exclusive swag!

Introducing the DevOps for Mobile Video Series

October 9th, 2019

Introducing the DevOps for Mobile video series now streaming on YouTube and Channel 9. We tackle a wide range of topics including continuous integration, user interface testing, provisioning, distribution, and a lot more. We guide you through each topic with easy to follow demos, but more importantly we have conversations around each area.

Boost Performance with Compiled Bindings in Xamarin.Forms

September 4th, 2019

See how compiled bindings for Xamarin.Forms XAML can help boost performance in your apps and also give immediate feedback when developing apps if you have a typo in your bindings.

Add Contact Features in 4 Lines of Code with Xamarin.Essentials

August 2nd, 2019

See how you can create a contact application to send an sms, email, place a phone call, and navigate to a location with just 4 lines of code with Xamarin.Essentials.

Xamarin.Essentials welcomes tvOS, watchOS, and Tizen

July 12th, 2019

Xamarin.Essentials, your favorite cross-platform library to access native features from shared code adds new file bases APIs for sharing, email, and opening. It also adds watchOS, tvOS, and Tizen platform support in the 1.3 pre-update!

Xamarin Developer Summit Live Streams!

July 9th, 2019

Xamarin Developer Summit is a two-day conference in Houston, TX. USA packed with TONS of amazing sessions and workshops for Xamarin developers. Don't worry if you aren’t able to attend in person, enjoy the conference remotely through our Xamarin Live broadcasts! Learn more...

Join the Microsoft Team at Xamarin Developer Summit

June 10th, 2019

This July, the community-run, Xamarin Developer Summit is set to launch in Houston, Texas! This conference is packed full of amazing Xamarin sessions by experts from around the world. We are excited to partner with the conference to have PM & Engineering members from the Xamarin, Azure, and App Center teams present on the latest in Xamarin!

Use Maps to Display and Navigate Users with Xamarin.Essentials

June 7th, 2019

Browse the Xamarin.Essentials Maps documentation to learn about all of the great cross-platform native APIs with additional implementation and limitation details. Xamarin.Essentials is open source on GitHub where you can report issues, ask for features, and contribute to the library.

Preparing Android Apps for Google Play’s 64-bit Requirements

May 29th, 2019

Starting on August 1st, 2019 all Android apps that ship native libraries will need to provide a 64-bit version of their app. Xamarin.Android already includes support for 64-bit CPUs and can be enabled with a simple check of a checkbox! See how easy it is to optimize your apps for multiple CPU architectures.

Managing HTTP & Cleartext Traffic on Android with Network Security Configuration

May 17th, 2019

Enhance security by enforcing HTTPS on all of your Android applications web request and easily adjust them for development purposes with Network Security Configuration.