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App First Run Detection with Xamarin.Essentials

James MontemagnoAugust 19, 2020Aug 19, 202008/19/20

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.

Exposure Notification API Support for Xamarin Apps

Jon DickMay 6, 2020May 6, 202005/6/20

Announcing the first preview of Exposure Notification APIs for devices. Read through to get a full breakdown of what APIs are available and our first preview of a full cross-platform API for Xamarin developers.

Magic Gradients: Beautiful Backgrounds in Xamarin.Forms

Jayme SingletonApril 6, 2020Apr 6, 202004/6/20

Magic Gradients is a NuGet that provide a possibility to add beautiful and enhanced gradients into Xamarin.Forms applications. Here is a quick taste of what you can do with the library using it as a separate layer or background.

Dotfuscator Comes to Visual Studio for Mac to Help Protect Apps

Jayme SingletonMarch 11, 2020Mar 11, 202003/11/20

Dotfuscator from PreEmptive helps .NET developers all over the globe protect their apps from reverse-engineering and hacking. Dotfuscator has been available for Xamarin developers using Visual Studio 2019 on Windows, but now with the release of Professional 6 is available on Visual Studio for Mac and cloud builds!

Send Surveys, Collect Feedback, and Smash Bugs with One Line of Code with Instabug

charlotteswanAugust 23, 2019Aug 23, 201908/23/19

In this Guest Blog post learn why having in-app feedback is important to application success and how Instabug can enable a super simple way to stream line user feedback and crash reporting.

Add Contact Features in 4 Lines of Code with Xamarin.Essentials

James MontemagnoAugust 2, 2019Aug 2, 201908/2/19

See how you can create a contact application to send an sms, email, place a phone call, and navigate to a location with just 4 lines of code with Xamarin.Essentials.

Xamarin.Essentials welcomes tvOS, watchOS, and Tizen

James MontemagnoJuly 12, 2019Jul 12, 201907/12/19

Xamarin.Essentials, your favorite cross-platform library to access native features from shared code adds new file bases APIs for sharing, email, and opening. It also adds watchOS, tvOS, and Tizen platform support in the 1.3 pre-update!

Persisting Settings and Preferences in Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Essentials

James MontemagnoFebruary 19, 2019Feb 19, 201902/19/19

An essential part of any mobile application is the ability to persist data. Sometimes that is a large amount of data that requires a database, but often it is smaller pieces of data such as settings and preferences that need to be persisted between application launches.

Easily Check Mobile Device Connectivity with Xamarin.Essentials

James MontemagnoFebruary 12, 2019Feb 12, 201902/12/19

As a mobile app developer, it's great to be able to pull data from the server to our apps to provide users with a delightful experience. Of course, until your user puts their device on airplane mode or hits a rough patch with no cell reception. To provide the best user experience we need access to the current network state of our users' device. Better yet, be able to register for changes to that network state. Doing this will allow our mobile apps to react to different network conditions to provide users with instant feedback. With the connectivity API in Xamarin.Essentials, we can do just that with a few lines of code.

Protect your Xamarin.Android Apps at Runtime with Dotfuscator

Jayme SingletonOctober 12, 2018Oct 12, 201810/12/18

n a previous blog we discussed obfuscating your Xamarin application with Dotfuscator Community to protect it from reverse-engineering. That kind of protection is an important and necessary layer in your application's security posture, but it shouldn't be the only layer. The application also needs to react to threats at runtime in order to protect its own integrity, and to protect the data that it accesses.

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