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Public Preview of XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms

August 15, 2019 Aug 15, 2019 08/15/19

Alex Corrado

Along with Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac previews, this release also has a public preview of XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms to speed up your inner development loop when working with Xamarin.Forms XAML by instantly reflecting changes you make in your running app, without requiring you to stop and rebuild.

Xamarin and Azure Office Hours Recap: Mid-2019

July 26, 2019 Jul 26, 2019 07/26/19

Matt Soucoup

It has been an exciting couple of months, and Matt recaps all of the excitement during his office hours! If you’re interested in talking about anything Xamarin, mobile development, or Azure, please sign-up for Matt's office hours.

Introducing AndroidX for Xamarin

July 25, 2019 Jul 25, 2019 07/25/19

Jon Douglas

The Android team has refactored the Support Library into a new set of extension libraries known as AndroidX which includes simplified package names to better reflect each package’s content and it’s supported API levels.

Faster Startup Times With Startup Tracing On Android

July 24, 2019 Jul 24, 2019 07/24/19

Jon Douglas

Announcing faster starter times using Startup Tracing on Android with performant startup experience and minimal increase to APK size.

Xamarin Podcast: XAML Hot Reload Is Out! 🔥🔄

July 19, 2019 Jul 19, 2019 07/19/19

Matt Soucoup

Keeping up with the latest in .NET, C#, Xamarin, and Azure is easier than ever. Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. This month’s episode recaps of all the announcements from The Xamarin Developer Summit – including XAML Hot Reload!

Recapping Xamarin Developer Summit

July 16, 2019 Jul 16, 2019 07/16/19

Maddy Montaquila

The first-ever Xamarin Developer Summit has come to a close. The Xamarin team had an action-packed two days of announcements, talks, and hanging out with our community in Houston! Here is a recap of some of the most important pieces you may have missed if you weren’t able to join in person or watch through the live streams.

Announcing XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms

July 11, 2019 Jul 11, 2019 07/11/19

Pierce Boggan

Today at Xamarin Developer Summit, we announced XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms, which enables you to make changes to your XAML UI and see them reflected live, without requiring another build and deploy. Learn More!

Xamarin.Forms 4.1.0 Stable Now Available

July 8, 2019 Jul 8, 2019 07/8/19

David Ortinau

Today we are happy to announce Xamarin.Forms 4.1 availability on NuGet. Our 3.0.0 series of releases focused heavily on growing Xamarin.Forms by filling in the “little things” we learned from you that should be available by default.

iOS 13 Preview Release Now Available

July 3, 2019 Jul 3, 2019 07/3/19

Pierce Boggan

Today, we are excited to share our first preview containing support for iOS 13 and Xcode 11! With today's preview, you can begin building applications using Xcode 13 and begin integrating existing new APIs for iOS 13 such as Sign in with Apple, along with support for iPadOS 13, watchOS 6, tvOS 13, and macOS 10.15.

CheckBox with Xamarin.Forms 4.1.0 Pre-Release

June 5, 2019 Jun 5, 2019 06/5/19