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Jun 7, 2019
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Use Maps to Display and Navigate Users with Xamarin.Essentials

James Montemagno
James Montemagno

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.

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May 29, 2019
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Preparing Android Apps for Google Play’s 64-bit Requirements

James Montemagno
James Montemagno

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.

AndroidDevelopersXamarin Platform
Apr 22, 2019
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Shrinking Your Android App Size

Jon Douglas
Jon Douglas

When it comes to application size, bigger is not better. In fact, it’s one of the key factors a user takes into mind when considering installing or uninstalling your application. Imagine if a user ran out of space on their device and your app was one of the biggest offenders for used space. It would be quite a shame for your application to be one o...

AndroidDevelopers
Apr 8, 2019
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Getting Started With WorkManager

Jon Douglas
Jon Douglas

Give a warm welcome to WorkManager. WorkManager is a library that makes it easy to schedule deferrable, asynchronous tasks even if the app exits or the device restarts. It was designed to be backwards compatible to API 14 and does so by wrapping JobScheduler, AlarmManager, and BroadcastReceivers all in one.

AndroidDevelopersEducation
Mar 28, 2019
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GlideX For Fast Images on Android

Jonathan Peppers
Jonathan Peppers

Unlock the power of Glide with “GlideX”: a simple library to swap-in Glide’s image loading implementation in-place of what Xamarin.Forms ships in the box.

DevelopersAndroid
Feb 25, 2019
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Quick Tip: Debugging Local ASP.NET Core Web APIs on Android Emulators

James Montemagno
James Montemagno

Debugging your ASP.NET Core Web API backend against you Android emulator should be simple, and with this quick tip you can use Xamarin.Essentials and Kestral to enable local debugging.

Xamarin.FormsDevelopersAndroid
Feb 4, 2019
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Using Existing C++ Libraries in Cross-Platform Xamarin.Forms Applications

Mike Parker
Mike Parker

Have you ever needed to integrate a C/C++ library in your Xamarin apps? Checkout this full Walkthrough pf an approach to wrapping a C/C++ library so it can be incorporated into Xamarin-based solutions via NuGet in a cross-platform manner.

DevelopersXamarin.FormsXamarin Platform
Jan 28, 2019
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Android’s D8 dexer and R8 shrinker

Jonathan Peppers
Jonathan Peppers

Learn more about Xamarin.Android’s D8 and R8 integration and deep dive on how R8 is being developed for Xamarin.Android and D8 as the next-generation DEX compiler to speed up and shrink Android apps.

Android
Nov 28, 2018
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Multi-targeting with Android Support Library v28

Jon Douglas
Jon Douglas

Starting with Xamarin’s Android Support Library version 28, we are introducing multi-targeting. This includes assemblies for older support library versions when your application's TargetFrameworkVersion is lower than the expected version.

DevelopersAndroid