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

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 ...

Fabulous: Functional App Development

Timothé Larivière September 10, 2020 Sep 10, 2020 09/10/20

Learn how to get started with functional programming with Xamarin, F#, and Fabulous to create amazing native mobile apps. Guest blogger and Fabulous maintainer Timothé Larivière walks you through what Fabulous is, how to get started, and how to build real world functional native mobile apps.

App First Run Detection with Xamarin.Essentials

App First Run Detection with Xamarin.Essentials

James Montemagno August 19, 2020 Aug 19, 2020 08/19/20

Several great approaches to check if and when your app is launching. For the very first run or for a specific version, all using Xamarin.Essentials! Easily detect the first time your user has run your application or for a specific version to easily integrate prompts.

Profiling Xamarin.Android Startup

Profiling Xamarin.Android Startup

Jonathan Peppers August 14, 2020 Aug 14, 2020 08/14/20

Measure, optimize, and fine-tune the performance of your Android apps build with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms with these tips and tricks using great tools.

A Dev Story: College Diary with Xamarin.Forms by Theodora Tataru

A Dev Story: College Diary with Xamarin.Forms by Theodora Tataru

Theodora Tataru August 12, 2020 Aug 12, 2020 08/12/20

Guest Blog: Theodora Tataru shares her developer story of finding Xamarin and building out her new app, College Diary.

Xamarin.Forms 4.8 – Gradients & Brushes, Drag & Drop, and More!

Xamarin.Forms 4.8 – Gradients & Brushes, Drag & Drop, and More!

Jake Kirsch August 7, 2020 Aug 7, 2020 08/7/20

Check out the latest release of Xamarin.Forms 4.8 that introduces gradients, brushes, drag & drop, and so much more! Head inside for all of the release details.

Mastering Multilingual in Xamarin.Forms

Mastering Multilingual in Xamarin.Forms

Jayme Singleton July 21, 2020 Jul 21, 2020 07/21/20

This guest post by Charlin Agramonte elaborates on how multilingual support is one of the most common requirements for mobile apps and the simplicity of building mobile apps with Xamarin that handle multiple languages.

Introducing C# Markup for Xamarin.Forms

Introducing C# Markup for Xamarin.Forms

Jayme Singleton July 15, 2020 Jul 15, 2020 07/15/20

C# Markup for Xamarin.Forms enables developers to seamlessly create user interfaces in C# code with built in markup extensions. In this guest blog post Vincent will walk-through how to setup C# markup and all of the great built in features.

Preparing Apps for Google Play Android 10 Requirements

Preparing Apps for Google Play Android 10 Requirements

James Montemagno July 6, 2020 Jul 6, 2020 07/6/20

There are some new requirements coming to Google Play when it comes to publishing your apps. Learn about updating your apps to target Android 10 (API 29).