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Add Contact Features in 4 Lines of Code with Xamarin.Essentials

August 2, 2019 Aug 2, 2019 08/2/19

James Montemagno

See how you can create a contact application to send an sms, email, place a phone call, and navigate to a location with just 4 lines of code with Xamarin.Essentials.

Xamarin.Essentials welcomes tvOS, watchOS, and Tizen

July 12, 2019 Jul 12, 2019 07/12/19

James Montemagno

Xamarin.Essentials, your favorite cross-platform library to access native features from shared code adds new file bases APIs for sharing, email, and opening. It also adds watchOS, tvOS, and Tizen platform support in the 1.3 pre-update!

Announcing XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms

July 11, 2019 Jul 11, 2019 07/11/19

Pierce Boggan

Today at Xamarin Developer Summit, we announced XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms, which enables you to make changes to your XAML UI and see them reflected live, without requiring another build and deploy. Learn More!

iOS 13 Preview Release Now Available

July 3, 2019 Jul 3, 2019 07/3/19

Pierce Boggan

Today, we are excited to share our first preview containing support for iOS 13 and Xcode 11! With today's preview, you can begin building applications using Xcode 13 and begin integrating existing new APIs for iOS 13 such as Sign in with Apple, along with support for iPadOS 13, watchOS 6, tvOS 13, and macOS 10.15.

Styling for Multiple Device Resolutions

June 28, 2019 Jun 28, 2019 06/28/19

Jayme Singleton

Guest Post: Develop applications with a design specific to one resolution that looks good on all the platforms and manage device resolutions by doing general validations such as making sure controls aren’t cut off that are reachable, visible, usable, etc. Learn More.

Faster Xamarin.Android Builds & Smaller Dex Files

June 24, 2019 Jun 24, 2019 06/24/19

Jonathan Peppers

One of our current focus areas in Xamarin.Android is build performance and reducing the multidex count. Developer productivity is directly impacted by the "inner dev loop": the time it takes to make a small code change and see the result on a device or emulator. Performance is a feature!

Xamarin Podcast: Xamarin.Forms 4 And So Much More!

June 14, 2019 Jun 14, 2019 06/14/19

Matt Soucoup

Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover the latest in .NET, C#, Xamarin, and Azure topics relevant to Xamarin developers. This week's topic: Xamarin.Forms 4.0 with even more amazing features!

Use Maps to Display and Navigate Users with Xamarin.Essentials

June 7, 2019 Jun 7, 2019 06/7/19

James Montemagno

Browse the Xamarin.Essentials Maps documentation to learn about all of the great cross-platform native APIs with additional implementation and limitation details. Xamarin.Essentials is open source on GitHub where you can report issues, ask for features, and contribute to the library.

Preparing Android Apps for Google Play’s 64-bit Requirements

May 29, 2019 May 29, 2019 05/29/19

James Montemagno

Starting on August 1st, 2019 all Android apps that ship native libraries will need to provide a 64-bit version of their app. Xamarin.Android already includes support for 64-bit CPUs and can be enabled with a simple check of a checkbox! See how easy it is to optimize your apps for multiple CPU architectures.

Xamarin Podcast: Microsoft Build 2019 Recap

May 14, 2019 May 14, 2019 05/14/19

Matt Soucoup

Keep up with the latest in .NET, C#, Xamarin, and Azure with cohosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno to cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. Including a Microsoft Build 2019 recap!

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