Today, we are happy to announce the release of all Xamarin API documentation as Open Source. Additionally, we have moved the hosting of Xamarin.Forms, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.iOS & Xamarin.Mac, and SkiaSharp from their old Xamarin home to docs.microsoft.com.
Microsoft Build 2019 kicks off next week in beautiful downtown Seattle Washington and we have a packed schedule for Xamarin developers to look forward to. In addition to sessions, you can find all of your favorite Xamarins hanging out at the Xamarin booth in the main hub with lots of Xamarin goodies!
We are excited to re-launch our Xamarin Developers YouTube channel where you will find fresh content on building amazing mobile apps directly from the Xamarin team at Microsoft. We have teamed up with our community and built a video to show off this channel.
With macOS Mojave, Apple introduced support for Hardened Runtime and Notary service. These two services are designed to improve application security on macOS. Recently Apple has stated: “Beginning in macOS 10.14.5, all new or updated kernel extensions and all software from developers new to distributing with Developer ID must be notarized in ord...
Keeping up with the latest in .NET, C#, Xamarin, and Azure is easier than ever. Cohosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. Be sure to subscribe to the Xamarin Podcast on iTunes, Google Play Music, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app.
In the recent release of Xamarin.Essentials (1.1.0) we introduced several new stable features including detect shake, browser customization, and a plethora of platform helpers. The team also added the top requested features: file sharing! It is extremely easy to get started using these new preview features with just a few lines of code.
An essential part of any mobile application is the ability to persist data. Sometimes that is a large amount of data that requires a database, but often it is smaller pieces of data such as settings and preferences that need to be persisted between application launches.
Xamarin Developer Blog is migrating to a new platform. Find a sneak peek of the new design and more details about the migration. Let us know what you think!
On the latest Xamarin podcast we discuss speed, speed, and more speed. Get ready for a faster inner dev loop. What's an inner dev loop, you ask? Tune in to find out!
As a mobile app developer, it's great to be able to pull data from the server to our apps to provide users with a delightful experience. Of course, until your user puts their device on airplane mode or hits a rough patch with no cell reception. To provide the best user experience we need access to the current network state of our users' device. Bet...
