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Fabulous: Going Beyond Hello World

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

Timothé Larivière

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

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

Maddy Montaquila

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

November 11, 2020 Nov 11, 2020 11/11/20

Gerald Versluis

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

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

Jayme Singleton

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

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

Saamer Mansoor

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

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

James Montemagno

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.

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

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

James Montemagno

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.

Join Hacktoberfest at the Xamarin Community Toolkit

October 2, 2020 Oct 2, 2020 10/2/20

Gerald Versluis

Code for swag or from your love for Xamarin in this year's Hacktoberfest! Here are the guidelines to get you started. Be sure to tag your pull requests with the "Hacktoberfest" label to be considered for a reward.

Xamarin.Forms 5 Preview: Advanced UI Controls for Beautiful Apps

September 29, 2020 Sep 29, 2020 09/29/20

David Ortinau

Xamarin.Forms 5 brings to stable release features that you have seen in preview over the latest several 4.x releases. This includes solid and gradient Brushes, CarouselView, drag-and-drop, RadioButton, Shapes, and SwipeView. These new features inject new creative potential for your application designs to create beautiful, interactive ...

Customer Showcase: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

September 24, 2020 Sep 24, 2020 09/24/20

Alex Blount

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is known for it’s many areas of involvement in the movie industry, but it is most famous for the annual awards show, The Oscar’s ®. See how the Academy migrated their infrastructure to Azure and leveraged Xamarin to deliver a rich, responsive experience to its members across a range of devices.

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