Jon Dick

Exposure Notification API Support for Xamarin Apps

May 6th, 2020

Announcing the first preview of Exposure Notification APIs for devices. Read through to get a full breakdown of what APIs are available and our first preview of a full cross-platform API for Xamarin developers.

Social Authentication with Xamarin.Essentials and ASP.NET Core

March 30th, 2020

Many apps require adding user authentication, and this often means enabling your users to sign in their existing Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and now Apple Sign In accounts. With Xamarin.Essentials' new WebAuthenticator and using ASP.NET Core on your backend it has never been easier. Learn more!

A Quick Update on Google Components for iOS and Android

March 13th, 2019

A quick update on libraries and technical work our team has been doing to keep up to date with Google recently updating their APIs across iOS and Android including Google Play services and AndroidX.

Augmented Reality in Xamarin.Android with ARCore

October 30th, 2017

Now that you've had a chance to augment reality in your Xamarin iOS apps with ARKit, it's time to explore Google's take on AR in your Xamarin Android apps. The new ARCore SDK provides APIs for Augmented Reality features, such as motion tracking, plane detection, and light estimation. These are the building blocks you will use to add AR ...

New & Improved Google Play Services for Android

November 3rd, 2015

The latest Google Play services 8.1 for Android release brings some exciting new APIs, such as Barcode and Face detection, as well as simplified management of your sessions. This release also comes with some improvements to the Xamarin developer experience that we have brought to Google Play services for Android components and NuGets...

Bring Android Pay to Your Apps with Stripe

September 17th, 2015

Android Pay has just launched, and Xamarin has everything you need to get your apps ready. The Google Play Services - Wallet NuGet adds the necessary APIs for Android Pay integration. We're also proud to announce that the Xamarin Stripe Component is Android Pay compatible! We've updated the sample to show you just how easy it is to ...

Keep Users from Leaving Your App with Chrome Custom Tabs

June 10th, 2015

Chrome Custom Tabs were one of the exciting announcements made at Google I/O 2015 that you can try now in your Xamarin apps. If your app is like many others today, you may provide your own in-app web browser experience when displaying linked web content to your users. This provides a seamless and branded user experience, but misses out ...

Put Some Cyanogen in Your Xamarin Apps

June 8th, 2015

CyanogenMod is an enhanced open source firmware distribution of Android that offers customizable features and options. Cyanogen continues to grow in popularity, and they recently introduced an early version of their platform SDK. Cyanogen launched this SDK by seeding it with the Quick Settings Tile API. Cyanogen’s Leigh Momii and Adnan ...

Creating Connected App Experiences with App Links

May 15th, 2014

Mobile apps are silos! We create apps with amazing experiences, but they are self contained with no idea how to communicate with any other app. Let's say I share a link to a new song on Rdio over Facebook, tapping that link in most apps will probably bring you to the web browser resulting in a poor user experience that takes you outside ...

Your Xamarin App in the Living Room with Amazon Fire TV

May 5th, 2014

Today, we are proud to announce a new way for you to get your apps and games on the big screen with Amazon Fire TV. With our Amazon Fire TV Component, existing Xamarin Android apps can integrate rich Amazon Fire TV features such as Notifications and Game Controller today. Amazon Fire TV Component With our Fire TV component you are ...