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Dec 7, 2018
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Xamarin.Forms 4.0 Feature Preview: An Entirely New Point of (Collection)View

Paul DiPietro
Paul DiPietro

As part of the upcoming Xamarin.Forms 4.0 release, we are implementing the all new CollectionView control. The CollectionView is intended to be a successor to the ListView, improving upon its design by reducing technical complexity and allowing for more flexibility of layout and function.

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Dec 5, 2018
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The Future of Mobile Development: Xamarin.Forms 4.0 Preview

David Ortinau
David Ortinau

Yesterday at Microsoft Connect(); 2018 we announced our plans for Xamarin.Forms 4.0 and shared a public preview. Let's now take a deeper look at the big changes, starting with Xamarin.Forms Shell, and then touch some of the other highlights.

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Nov 15, 2018
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Xamarin.Forms 3.4.0: Say Hello to ImageButton

Paul DiPietro
Paul DiPietro

As part of our long-term goal to have more frequent releases, we’re pleased to announce the release of Xamarin.Forms 3.4.0. As always, this release contains even more bug fixes and most notably, another new highly requested feature, an ImageButton!

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Oct 23, 2018
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Xamarin.Forms and Zeplin: Speed Up Your Design to Development Process

Arnstein Johansen
Arnstein Johansen

Working in a small team with frequent design changes, the extension for Zeplin helps us quickly implement the design. It is also convenient due to its ability to generate a ResourceDictionary for Xamarin.Forms with all your colors and style. Whether you are developing for web or creating mobile apps, Zeplin is a great tool that can boost your pr...

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Oct 18, 2018
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Xamarin.Forms 3.3.0: Little Things, Huge Difference

David Ortinau
David Ortinau

The Xamarin.Forms team has been working closely with our open-source community to help fill in the “little things”. Things you’ve told us are important to building your mobile apps and being supremely productive in the process. Since Xamarin.Forms 3.0 shipped at Build 2018, we have been collaborating with you to deliver over 20 new features and fix...

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Sep 17, 2018
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Xamarin.Forms 3.2.0 Released: Going Big with Little Things

David Ortinau
David Ortinau

marin.Forms 3.2.0 continues the theme of previous releases to give you big wins by making little things much easier to do. The entire version 3 series has been about reducing the friction of doing such things as positioning the Android tabs to the bottom, controlling spellcheck and capitalization and prediction on text controls. There are even triv...

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Aug 24, 2018
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Using the New Xamarin.Forms Controls Toolbox

Maddy Montaquila
Maddy Montaquila

Today, we are excited to debut the Xamarin.Forms Controls Toolbox as part of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 and Visual Studio for Mac version 7.6. The toolbox lists the available Xamarin.Forms controls. Furthermore, these can be dragged directly onto the XAML editing surface to create the control on your page!

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Aug 3, 2018
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Adaptive Mobile Designs with FlexLayout

David Ortinau
David Ortinau

Xamarin.Forms is fantastic for quickly shipping a single code base to multiple platforms and devices. As soon as you are present on all those different screens, you need to make sure your UI looks as you expect, and even adapt the layout for your specific goals. FlexLayout makes this easier than before and provides new options for you to space and ...

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Jul 18, 2018
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Xamarin.Forms 3.1: Improving the Little Things

David Ortinau
David Ortinau

Earlier this year, we surveyed Xamarin.Forms developers about the kinds of custom controls and extra platform code being written repeatedly that should be considered for support “in the box”. From these conversations, we created an initiative to deliver as many as we could in the next several releases. Just six weeks after shipping Xamarin.Forms 3....

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