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The Journey to Accessible Apps

Rachel Kang (SHE/HER) April 14, 2021 Apr 14, 2021 04/14/21

Get started on your journey to developing inclusive apps - start here, with accessibility, today.

Great Looking Settings Screens for Xamarin.Forms

James Montemagno March 17, 2021 Mar 17, 2021 03/17/21

Looking to spruce up your settings screen in your Xamarin.Forms app? Checkout some quick tips to theme the built in controls in Xamarin.Forms to make your settings shine.

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 Community Toolkit: A Must-Have Xamarin Library

Gerald Versluis January 25, 2021 Jan 25, 2021 01/25/21

We are pleased to introduce the Xamarin Community Toolkit! The toolkit complements Xamarin.Forms 5 with all kinds of commonly found behaviors, converters, effects, MVVM utilities, and awesome new controls including the CameraView, AvatarView, and TabView.