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Sync Mobile Apps with the Cloud via Change Tracking API

April 10, 2020 Apr 10, 2020 04/10/20

Davide Mauri

Change Tracking API + JSON will make your dev life and mobile application data sync so easy you won’t believe it’s Azure SQL.

What’s New for Xamarin Developers in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5

April 8, 2020 Apr 8, 2020 04/8/20

Pierce Boggan

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 was released! Which brings several new features and improvements for mobile developers in Visual Studio for Mac to help you build better mobile apps, faster.

Social Authentication with Xamarin.Essentials and ASP.NET Core

March 30, 2020 Mar 30, 2020 03/30/20

Jon Dick

Many apps require adding user authentication, and this often means enabling your users to sign in their existing Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and now Apple Sign In accounts. With Xamarin.Essentials' new WebAuthenticator and using ASP.NET Core on your backend it has never been easier. Learn more!

Android Image Classification with TensorFlow Lite & Azure Custom Vision Service

March 27, 2020 Mar 27, 2020 03/27/20

Jayme Singleton

Image Classification allows our Xamarin apps to recognize objects in a photo. This article will walkthrough how to implement using Azure's Custom Vision Service, TensorFlow Lite (an open source machine learning platform) and Xamarin.Android.

Xamarin Podcast: Let’s Focus on Xamarin!

March 20, 2020 Mar 20, 2020 03/20/20

Matt Soucoup

Keeping up with the latest in .NET, C#, Xamarin, and Azure is easier than ever. Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. In this month’s episode James and Matt pull out all the stops and really Focus on Xamarin.

Faster Application Startup using Custom Profiles with Startup Tracing on Android

March 19, 2020 Mar 19, 2020 03/19/20

Jon Douglas

Developers today can already take advantage of Startup Tracing to improve the startup time of their Android apps. Today, I will show you a new feature that let's you build a custom profile to be used for your app with Startup Tracing that finely tunes and optimizes your apps startup.

.NET Conf: Focus On Xamarin is Next Week!

March 17, 2020 Mar 17, 2020 03/17/20

James Montemagno

We are just one week away from the largest Xamarin digital event of the year, .NET Conf: Focus on Xamarin! Join us live on Channel 9, YouTube, & Twitch for a full day of Xamarin awesome!

What’s New for Xamarin Developers in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5

March 16, 2020 Mar 16, 2020 03/16/20

Pierce Boggan

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 is available today and packed full of awesome new features for Xamarin developers including Hot Restart, Apply Changes, Multi-target XAML Hot Reload, faster Android startup, and tons more!

Dotfuscator Comes to Visual Studio for Mac to Help Protect Apps

March 11, 2020 Mar 11, 2020 03/11/20

Jayme Singleton

Dotfuscator from PreEmptive helps .NET developers all over the globe protect their apps from reverse-engineering and hacking. Dotfuscator has been available for Xamarin developers using Visual Studio 2019 on Windows, but now with the release of Professional 6 is available on Visual Studio for Mac and cloud builds!

Binding Android Kotlin Libraries

March 9, 2020 Mar 9, 2020 03/9/20

alexeystrakh

The ability to reuse components built with Kotlin has become increasingly important to Xamarin developers as their popularity amongst developers continues to grow. This post describes a high-level process of binding a Kotlin framework. Additional information with a detailed walkthrough is now available at Microsoft documentation.

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