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More Cross-Platform APIs with Xamarin.Essentials Latest Preview

James Montemagno June 14, 2018 Jun 14, 2018 06/14/18

We announced Xamarin.Essentials, a core set of cross-platform APIs to help developers build native apps, at Microsoft Build 2018. Xamarin.Essentials gives developers access to over thirty platform-specific APIs that can be accessed from their shared code, including geolocation, secure storage, sensors, device information, and many more. Best of all, Xamarin.Essentials can be used in any iOS, Android, UWP, or Xamarin.Forms app, regardless of how you create the user interface. Feedback on the first preview from developers has been fantastic, with praise of a simple and straightforward way to access these native features.

Xamarin.Essentials: Cross-Platform APIs for Mobile Apps

James Montemagno May 16, 2018 May 16, 2018 05/16/18

When developing iOS and Android apps with Xamarin, developers can access every native platform API using C#. These bindings not only expose the platform APIs in C#, but add powerful C# features, such as async/await, events, delegates, and more. This is a huge advantage for developers, because they never have to leave C#, whether they're writing shared business logic, user interface, or accessing native features. One key feature developers often look for when developing cross-platform apps with Xamarin is a way to access common native features from their shared code without having to write their own abstractions or find an open source plugin created by the community.

The C# Developer’s Guide to Shipping Better Apps with Visual Studio App Center

James Montemagno January 16, 2018 Jan 16, 2018 01/16/18

At our annual Microsoft Connect event in November, we announced the General Availability of Visual Studio App Center, combining our best developer services, incuding Xamarin Test Cloud and HockeyApp, into one free, easy-to-use cloud service to help you ship better apps, faster. From building in the cloud to automatically testing on thousands of real devices, distributing to testers and app stores, and monitoring real-time crash and analytics data, Visual Studio App Center fully supports Xamarin apps.

Bringing Communities Together: Xamarin MVPs Join Microsoft MVPs

Jayme Singleton September 1, 2017 Sep 1, 2017 09/1/17

The Xamarin MVP Program and Microsoft MVP Award Program share a common bond in recognizing leaders who make outstanding contributions to our technical communities. In the last year, we've taken steps to bring our communities closer together, by making Xamarin University and Microsoft MSDN benefits available to all members of both programs...

Fast & Simple Android Location Updates with Google Play services

James Montemagno August 24, 2017 Aug 24, 2017 08/24/17

Starting an Android application that relies on device location can be overwhelming. The classic way of getting location is with Android's core APIs, which have been around for a very long time and can be confusing to use. To simplify this process, we developed the Geolocator plugin, which enables developers to get the location from shared code on iOS, Android, and Windows from a single API. There are times when you may want or need full control over the API, however, and that's where the new Google Play services location APIs come in. These APIs simplify location awareness with multiple sensors on the device to help determine the location of the user. This means that, when using these new APIs, querying for location updates is faster and more accurate and, with the most recent update (11.0.4), it's never been easier to get started.

Native Android Facebook Authentication with Azure App Service

James Montemagno August 18, 2017 Aug 18, 2017 08/18/17

Authenticationis critical to applications success. Look at your app, and I bet the very first things that your users will do is sign up or log in to their account. This will probably, in turn, leverage some form of social authentication. Each social authentication provider is a little bit different, and some, such as Facebook, offer a native SDK to simplify the login process and offer additional functionality specific to their service. Previously, we looked at how to integrate the Facebook SDK for iOS to offer a native login experience and how to integrate with Azure Mobile Apps, part of Azure App Service. Today, I'll show you how to log in with the Android Facebook SDK to simplify the login process on Android and with Xamarin.Forms.

Exploring Android’s Bottom Navigation View

James Montemagno August 7, 2017 Aug 7, 2017 08/7/17

The debate over whether tabs should go on the top or the bottom of a screen has raged for nearly a decade. Android has always preferred to use tabs as a filtering mechanism on the top of a page, while iOS has used bottom tabs as the main source of navigation. Now, with the addition of the Bottom Navigation View in the Support Design library, Android developers have the choice of where their main navigation comes from in their applications.

Mastering the Android Support Libraries

James Montemagno July 11, 2017 Jul 11, 2017 07/11/17

Android Support Libraries are an essential part to every Android application and you'll find them absolutely everywhere. The Support Libraries offer developers the ability to add the latest and greatest features of Android to their application while maintaining backward compatibility with older versions of Android. As new versions of the Android SDK continue to roll out, so do updates to the Support Libraries; keeping them up-to-date and installing the correct versions is an important (and sometimes frustrating) part of Android development. This blog post will help demystify the Support Libraries and help you upgrade to the latest versions.

Simplified Android Keystore Signature Discovery

James Montemagno March 14, 2017 Mar 14, 2017 03/14/17

The Android Keystore is at the heart of every Android application. It enables us to sign our applications and ship them to the app store securely, but also holds additional signature information needed for Google Play services and other APIs, such as Facebook. This new extension makes it super simple to get access to everything you need to sign your app!

Consumable In-App Purchases

James Montemagno February 15, 2017 Feb 15, 2017 02/15/17

If you are building a game or application with content that needs to be purchased multiple times, you'll need to integrate consumable in-app purchases (IAPs) into your application. In my previous IAP blog post, I covered the basics of setting up your app for IAP transactions, adding the IAP items to Google Play and iTunes Connect, and introduced you to the In-App Billing Plugin for Xamarin that greatly simplifies the process of adding IAP to your application's code. Today, we'll take a look at consumables and how they offer a slight tweak to the development process.

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More Cross-Platform APIs with Xamarin.Essentials Latest Preview

Xamarin.Essentials: Cross-Platform APIs for Mobile Apps

The C# Developer’s Guide to Shipping Better Apps with Visual Studio App Center

Bringing Communities Together: Xamarin MVPs Join Microsoft MVPs

Fast & Simple Android Location Updates with Google Play services

Exploring Android’s Bottom Navigation View

Mastering the Android Support Libraries

Simplified Android Keystore Signature Discovery

Consumable In-App Purchases

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