macOS

Xamarin.Essentials 1.6 preview: macOS, media, and more!

October 7, 2020 Oct 7, 2020 10/7/20

James Montemagno

Announcing the preview for Xamarin.Essentials 1.6 that introduces official support for macOS and exciting features including a file & media picker, app actions, screenshots, and much more.

What’s New for Xamarin Developers in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5

April 8, 2020 Apr 8, 2020 04/8/20

Pierce Boggan

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 was released! Which brings several new features and improvements for mobile developers in Visual Studio for Mac to help you build better mobile apps, faster.

Get Ready for iOS 13 and Xcode 11

September 13, 2019 Sep 13, 2019 09/13/19

David Ortinau

Support for iOS 13 and Xcode 11 to accompany Apple’s Xcode Gold Master (GM) release has just been announced! Now, build your Xamarin.iOS (and Xamarin.Forms for iOS) apps with Xcode 11 GM and submit your iOS 13, tvOS 13 and watchOS 6 apps to the Apple App Store.

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.

Migrating MacOS Apps to 64-bit Before the Apple Transition

June 26, 2019 Jun 26, 2019 06/26/19

David Ortinau

Apple has been moving towards 64-bit only applications on macOS for a number of releases. Though new Xamarin.Mac applications target 64-bit by default, any existing Xamarin.Mac applications that target 32-bit must be migrated to 64-bit to continue working in the future. Learn more.

Getting Ready for macOS’s Hardened Runtime and Notary

April 15, 2019 Apr 15, 2019 04/15/19

David Ortinau

With macOS Mojave, Apple introduced support for Hardened Runtime and Notary service. These two services are designed to improve application security on macOS. Recently Apple has stated: “Beginning in macOS 10.14.5, all new or updated kernel extensions and all software from developers new to distributing with Developer ID must be notarized in order to run. In a future version of macOS, notarization will be required by default for all software.”

CoreML Programming with Xamarin.Mac and F#

January 4, 2018 Jan 4, 2018 01/4/18

Larry O'Brien

Although Xamarin technologies are most commonly used to develop mobile applications, Xamarin.Mac makes it easy to use your preferred .NET language to develop desktop Mac apps. There are many C# examples in Xamarin’s mac-samples directory on Github, but it's also easy to use F# to develop desktop Mac apps as well.