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Xamarin Updates From Microsoft Build 2020

James MontemagnoMay 19, 2020May 19, 202005/19/20

Today kicks of Microsoft Build 2020, a 48-hour digital experience that is completely free for everyone to attend online! The Xamarin and .NET teams have some very exciting announcements, sessions, and interactive experiences throughout the event - so let's dive in!

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Xamarin Customer Showcase: PGS Software + Volotea

Jayme SingletonMay 1, 2020May 1, 202005/1/20

Xamarin Showcase: When Volotea, an airline leader connecting European cities with competitively priced direct flights, was looking to re-invent their mobile apps, PGS Software was there to build a beautiful app with Xamarin and .NET.

Image of a web authenticator flow starting with the mobile app, calling the ASP.NET Backend, then to an external provider that handles the main oAuth flow and returns a token back to the ASP.NET controller and then back to the mobile application.

Social Authentication with Xamarin.Essentials and ASP.NET Core

Jon DickMarch 30, 2020Mar 30, 202003/30/20

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!

Android Image Classification with TensorFlow Lite & Azure Custom Vision Service

danielhindrikesMarch 27, 2020Mar 27, 202003/27/20

Image Classification allows our Xamarin apps to recognize objects in a photo. This article will walkthrough how to implement using Azure's Custom Vision Service, TensorFlow Lite (an open source machine learning platform) and Xamarin.Android.

Faster Application Startup using Custom Profiles with Startup Tracing on Android

Jon DouglasMarch 19, 2020Mar 19, 202003/19/20

Developers today can already take advantage of Startup Tracing to improve the startup time of their Android apps. Today, I will show you a new feature that let's you build a custom profile to be used for your app with Startup Tracing that finely tunes and optimizes your apps startup.

Binding Android Kotlin Libraries

alexeystrakhMarch 9, 2020Mar 9, 202003/9/20

The ability to reuse components built with Kotlin has become increasingly important to Xamarin developers as their popularity amongst developers continues to grow. This post describes a high-level process of binding a Kotlin framework. Additional information with a detailed walkthrough is now available at Microsoft documentation.

Xamarin.Forms & Xamarin.Essentials Go AndroidX

James MontemagnoFebruary 21, 2020Feb 21, 202002/21/20

AndroidX is here! Find out our plans for integration into Xamarin.Forms, Xamarin.Essentials, and beyond. Also, if you are a library creator we recommend a migration strategy for you and your users.

AndroidX NuGet Packages are Stable!

Jon DouglasFebruary 14, 2020Feb 14, 202002/14/20

Today we are happy to bring you stable AndroidX NuGet packages. Since AndroidX is a large change for your Android projects, we’ve introduced a number of ways for you to migrate your project. Learn more!

Xamarin Goes Dual Screen

David OrtinauJanuary 22, 2020Jan 22, 202001/22/20

Surface Duo introduces a whole new class of ultra-portable experiences running on dual screens. Today we are excited to announce our public preview of the SDK for Surface Duo. Xamarin developers can take advantage of the new SDK to enlighten existing apps and create innovative experiences for this new device that inspires creativity.

DevOps for Android App Bundles

James MontemagnoJanuary 15, 2020Jan 15, 202001/15/20

Android App Bundle is a new app packaging format from Google for Android applications that dramatically reduces the install size for end users.

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