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The New .NET Multi-platform App UI

David Ortinau February 3, 2021 Feb 3, 2021 02/3/21

With .NET 6 previews starting right around the corner, it is time to start getting excited for the new .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) that was announced at BUILD 2020. This year of .NET has a lot of amazing things for client application developers. Let's review the highlights and set your expectations for the year ahead.

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 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.

December’s Community Standup – .NET MAUI Update

Maddy Leger December 2, 2020 Dec 2, 2020 12/2/20

Join Xamarin & .NET MAUI team members Maddy Leger, David Ortinau, and Jon Dick for updates on .NET MAUI, the next generation of Xamarin.Forms to build cross-platform mobile and desktop apps.

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

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

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.

.NET Conf 2020 and Virtual Events in November

Jayme Singleton November 2, 2020 Nov 2, 2020 11/2/20

The .NET team and the .NET Foundation are excited to present .NET Conf 2020 - a free, 3-day, live-streamed event all about .NET development! This year is going to be extra special as .NET 5.0 launches on the 10-year anniversary of this virtual conference happening November 10-12th, 2020!

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.

Query & Interact with Apps in Android 11 with Package Visibility

James Montemagno October 15, 2020 Oct 15, 2020 10/15/20

There are several exciting new APIs and enhancements in Android 11. One of the more interesting changes for developers is changes to package visibility. In this post we will see what package visibility is and what changes need to be made to apps to query and interact with apps installed on the user's device.

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