Pierce Boggan

Hybrid App Starter Kit

May 12th, 2014

Building native apps with Xamarin is the best of both worlds. You get the best possible experience on each platform, while being able to reuse vast amounts of code everywhere. Sometimes though, it's useful to blend some HTML into your native app, for instance to reuse some existing HTML assets. While in most cases, using native APIs ...

Please Sign Here: Open Source Signature Component

May 1st, 2014

From legal documents to completed field service and sales orders, the ability to capture a signature on a mobile device modernizes old world, paper-based transactions. However, it can be quite a bit of work to develop signature functionality for one platform, let alone to make it work across multiple platforms. To that end, we are pleased...

Mobile Meetups Happening Worldwide in April

April 2nd, 2014

Over the next couple weeks there are many exciting Xamarin user groups taking place all over the world. Meetups are happening in India, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Texas and Florida to name a few. And we're pleased to welcome Paris, France with their inaugural Xamarin meetup! Here are some upcoming Xamarin developer group meetups...

Awesome Mobile C# Meetups to Start off March

March 3rd, 2014

With the recent introduction of our Xamarin Community Sponsorship Program there has been explosive growth in Xamarin developer groups and we couldn't be more excited. This means that now more then ever you have the perfect opportunity to catch up with fellow Xamarin developers to learn about interesting new topics in your area. There are ...

Wordament Ships to Every Major Platform with Xamarin

January 29th, 2014

After the Windows Phone platform launched in 2010, Microsoft wanted to encourage the company’s talented developers to build apps and jump-start the new platform’s software ecosystem. One of the most compelling success stories to emerge from that initiative is the tale of Wordament. The game was created by Microsoft veterans John...

Create Rich Text Features in iOS with Text Kit

December 11th, 2013

Built on top of the Core Text framework sits Text Kit, a high-level text layout and rendering API in iOS 7. Text Kit makes text much easier to work with than having to drop down to Core Text. It allows you to implement rich, text-based applications such as magazine readers or document editors that often require custom text styles and ...

Transitioning to Xamarin from Objective-C

August 14th, 2013

Objective-C developers coming to Xamarin can take advantage of the Xamarin.iOS platform to create reusable C# code that can be shared with Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.Mac and various Windows platforms. However, you need not throw away all the investments you have made in Objective-C. Xamarin offers a technology called bindings that let you ...