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Xamarin.Forms 3.2.0 Released: Going Big with Little Things

David Ortinau September 17, 2018 Sep 17, 2018 09/17/18

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 trivial improvements to setting ImeOptions, coloring various elements of switches and bars, and so many more.

Using the New Xamarin.Forms Controls Toolbox

Maddy Leger August 24, 2018 Aug 24, 2018 08/24/18

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!

Adaptive Mobile Designs with FlexLayout

David Ortinau August 3, 2018 Aug 3, 2018 08/3/18

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 distribute your UI to suit different dimensions.

Xamarin.Forms 3.1: Improving the Little Things

David Ortinau July 18, 2018 Jul 18, 2018 07/18/18

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 3.0 at Build 2018, we are excited to introduce Xamarin.Forms 3.1 with a batch of those enhancements to make your lives easier. Now you can spend more time investing in your applications! In this article, we'll take a look at some of the highlights.

Try the Latest Release of Xamarin.Forms 3.0!

David Ortinau May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18

We are overjoyed to bring you our latest stable release of Xamarin.Forms, version 3.0. This is our fastest, richest release to date coupled with fantastic improvements up and down the Xamarin stack such as the latest XAML IntelliSense experience in Visual Studio 2017. When you upgrade to 3.0 you’ll discover new layout and styling ...

Implement Drawer and Split UI with the Xamarin.Forms MasterDetailPage

Mark Taparauskas April 26, 2018 Apr 26, 2018 04/26/18

Drawer navigation and master-detail UI are two powerful patterns that guide users through content in applications with significant amounts of data or many pages. Xamarin.Forms provides the MasterDetailPage to help you implement both presentation styles. Using MasterDetailPage in Xamarin.Forms MasterDetailPage does a lot of the work for...

Adding Sound to a Xamarin.Forms App

Adrian Stevens November 13, 2017 Nov 13, 2017 11/13/17

Audio has many uses in mobile applications. Sounds can be essential to your app; they may notify users of important events or make your app accessible to visually-impaired users. We can also use sound to help convey moods, intentions, or feelings within our apps. In fact, many companies include jingles or sounds as part of their brand...

Adaptive UI with Xamarin.Forms

Adrian Stevens October 16, 2017 Oct 16, 2017 10/16/17

Xamarin.Forms has supported iOS, Android, and Windows for a long time. We've also added new platforms to keep up with the changing landscape, such as Tizen and macOS, with Linux and Windows WPF on the horizon. These platforms run on a wide variety of devices including phones, tablets, desktops, and TVs. This presents an interesting ...

Xamarin.Forms: Tips for Beating the Learning Curve

David Ortinau September 15, 2017 Sep 15, 2017 09/15/17

As a first time user learning any new technology or pattern, there’s always a curve, and over the years I've stood at the threshold of a product and gazed up that curve to determine how painfully steep it appeared and how long it would take until I was productive. Now, as the Program Manager for Xamarin.Forms, I gather and receive a lot of ...

Securing Web Requests with TLS 1.2

James Montemagno April 4, 2017 Apr 4, 2017 04/4/17

In my years of development, one thing I've learned for certain is that securing your network requests is an essential part of any mobile application. A few weeks ago one of my own applications stopped working due to a change to a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate on meetup.com's authentication server, which made me realize the important role Transport Layer Security (TLS) plays in securing app and server requests.

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Xamarin.Forms 3.2.0 Released: Going Big with Little Things

Using the New Xamarin.Forms Controls Toolbox

Adaptive Mobile Designs with FlexLayout

Xamarin.Forms 3.1: Improving the Little Things

Try the Latest Release of Xamarin.Forms 3.0!

Implement Drawer and Split UI with the Xamarin.Forms MasterDetailPage

Adding Sound to a Xamarin.Forms App

Adaptive UI with Xamarin.Forms

Xamarin.Forms: Tips for Beating the Learning Curve

Securing Web Requests with TLS 1.2

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