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Beautiful Tabs with Xamarin Community Toolkit TabView

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

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

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.

Xamarin.Forms 5.0 is Here!

Xamarin.Forms 5.0 is Here!

David Ortinau January 7, 2021 Jan 7, 2021 01/7/21

Xamarin.Forms 5 is here, delivering hundreds of quality improvements and brings to stable release new features including App Themes, Brushes, CarouselView, RadioButton, Shapes and Paths, and SwipeView.

Xamarin Holiday Hack Ideas

Xamarin Holiday Hack Ideas

David Ortinau December 21, 2020 Dec 21, 2020 12/21/20

Are you looking for some code-related diversions this holiday season to pass the time and have some fun? So are we! Here are some ideas to help inspire us all.

Fabulous: Going Beyond Hello World

Timothé Larivière November 17, 2020 Nov 17, 2020 11/17/20

In this guest blog from Fabulous maintainer Timothé Larivière shows us the next steps in leveraging F#, MVU, and Fabulous to build mobile apps with Xamarin.

Recapping Xamarin Highlights from .NET Conf 2020

Recapping Xamarin Highlights from .NET Conf 2020

Maddy Leger November 12, 2020 Nov 12, 2020 11/12/20

Xamarin had a huge presence throughout .NET Conf, here’s a recap of all of the new features developers can use to build mobile apps including XAML Hot Reload 2.0, iOS Hot Restart, and Xamarin.Forms 5.0.

Xamarin Community Toolkit Hacktoberfest 2020 Recap

Xamarin Community Toolkit Hacktoberfest 2020 Recap

Gerald Versluis November 11, 2020 Nov 11, 2020 11/11/20

It has been hard to miss, for the past month Hacktoberfest was upon us again. As announced in our previous blogpost, the Xamarin Community Toolkit participated as well, here is a little summary of how we did.

In-app reviews for your Android apps

In-app reviews for your Android apps

Saamer Mansoor October 22, 2020 Oct 22, 2020 10/22/20

You can now launch in-app reviews in Android using the Store Review Plugin and the new Play Core library for Android.

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

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

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

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.