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CollectionView Drag & Drop Item Reordering with Gesture Recognizers

alexeystrakh March 4, 2021 Mar 4, 2021 03/4/21

Items reordering in a list-based control is a handy feature and it is used in various use cases. From simple scenarios like configuring settings, defining tabs order to complex scenarios like managing user content, and reordering images or email. With the recent Xamarin.Forms 5.0 release, Drag and Drop gesture recognizers were introduced and ...

Beautiful Tabs with Xamarin Community Toolkit TabView

Gerald Versluis February 24, 2021 Feb 24, 2021 02/24/21

One of the hardest parts of apps to customize is the tab bar. To overcome this, we've added the TabView to the Xamarin Community Toolkit. With the TabView you have full control over the look-and-feel of the tab bar. In this blogpost we'll learn what it's all about.

Beautiful Custom RadioButton with Xamarin.Forms 5

James Montemagno January 29, 2021 Jan 29, 2021 01/29/21

Xamarin.Forms 5 introduced control templates for the new RadioButton control that gives you complete control and customization over the user interface.

Xamarin.Forms 5.0 is Here!

David Ortinau January 7, 2021 Jan 7, 2021 01/7/21

Xamarin.Forms 5 is here, delivering hundreds of quality improvements and brings to stable release new features including App Themes, Brushes, CarouselView, RadioButton, Shapes and Paths, and SwipeView.

Xamarin Holiday Hack Ideas

David Ortinau December 21, 2020 Dec 21, 2020 12/21/20

Are you looking for some code-related diversions this holiday season to pass the time and have some fun? So are we! Here are some ideas to help inspire us all.

December’s Community Standup – .NET MAUI Update

Maddy Leger December 2, 2020 Dec 2, 2020 12/2/20

Join Xamarin & .NET MAUI team members Maddy Leger, David Ortinau, and Jon Dick for updates on .NET MAUI, the next generation of Xamarin.Forms to build cross-platform mobile and desktop apps.

Fabulous: Going Beyond Hello World

Timothé Larivière November 17, 2020 Nov 17, 2020 11/17/20

In this guest blog from Fabulous maintainer Timothé Larivière shows us the next steps in leveraging F#, MVU, and Fabulous to build mobile apps with Xamarin.

.NET Conf 2020 and Virtual Events in November

Jayme Singleton November 2, 2020 Nov 2, 2020 11/2/20

The .NET team and the .NET Foundation are excited to present .NET Conf 2020 - a free, 3-day, live-streamed event all about .NET development! This year is going to be extra special as .NET 5.0 launches on the 10-year anniversary of this virtual conference happening November 10-12th, 2020!

In-app reviews for your Android apps

Saamer Mansoor October 22, 2020 Oct 22, 2020 10/22/20

You can now launch in-app reviews in Android using the Store Review Plugin and the new Play Core library for Android.

Xamarin.Forms 5 Preview: Advanced UI Controls for Beautiful Apps

David Ortinau September 29, 2020 Sep 29, 2020 09/29/20

Xamarin.Forms 5 brings to stable release features that you have seen in preview over the latest several 4.x releases. This includes solid and gradient Brushes, CarouselView, drag-and-drop, RadioButton, Shapes, and SwipeView. These new features inject new creative potential for your application designs to create beautiful, interactive ...

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