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

David OrtinauSeptember 29, 2020Sep 29, 202009/29/20

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 ...

Customer Showcase: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Alex BlountSeptember 24, 2020Sep 24, 202009/24/20

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is known for it’s many areas of involvement in the movie industry, but it is most famous for the annual awards show, The Oscar’s ®. See how the Academy migrated their infrastructure to Azure and leveraged Xamarin to deliver a rich, responsive experience to its members across a range of devices.

Fabulous: Functional App Development

Timothé LarivièreSeptember 10, 2020Sep 10, 202009/10/20

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.

Xamarin Podcast: Drawing, Visual Studio 2019, Virtual Meetups & More!

Matt SoucoupAugust 24, 2020Aug 24, 202008/24/20

In this month's podcast episode, James and Matt explore drawing with Xamarin.Forms, discuss latest new releases of Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio for Mac, as well as how to get your virtual meetup rolling with the .NET Foundation.

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

Theodora TataruAugust 12, 2020Aug 12, 202008/12/20

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!

Jake KirschAugust 7, 2020Aug 7, 202008/7/20

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.

Drawing UI with Xamarin.Forms Shapes and Paths

David OrtinauJuly 23, 2020Jul 23, 202007/23/20

Xamarin.Forms 4.7 introduces drawing controls for Shapes and Paths. These are powerful new cross-platform controls that use the familiar control syntax from UWP and WPF. As well as use the native graphics libraries on each target platform. Learn more!

Mastering Multilingual in Xamarin.Forms

Jayme SingletonJuly 21, 2020Jul 21, 202007/21/20

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.

Xamarin Podcast: Inverter Converter and Xamarin.Forms 4.7

Matt SoucoupJuly 17, 2020Jul 17, 202007/17/20

In this month’s episode, James and Matt recap the 100% remote Microsoft Build that happened at the end of May 2020. They also talk about some new Azure + Xamarin docs and how to reuse Xamarin.Forms in iOS extensions.

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