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Introducing .NET MAUI Compatibility for the Xamarin Community Toolkit

August 31, 2021 Aug 31, 2021 08/31/21

Brandon Minnick

Announcing the first preview release of Xamarin.CommunityToolkit.MauiCompat

Building beautiful apps with Xamarin.Forms

June 3, 2021 Jun 3, 2021 06/3/21

James Montemagno

Designing great looking apps can be hard, but with a little inspiration and a little styling you can craft beautiful looking apps with Xamarin.Forms

CollectionView Drag & Drop Item Reordering with Gesture Recognizers

March 4, 2021 Mar 4, 2021 03/4/21

alexeystrakh

Items reordering in a list-based control is a handy feature and it is used in various use cases. From simple scenarios like configuring settings, defining tabs order to complex scenarios like managing user content, and reordering images or email. With the recent Xamarin.Forms 5.0 release, Drag and Drop gesture recognizers were introduced and ...

Build Xamarin.iOS apps using iOS 14 and Xcode 12

September 21, 2020 Sep 21, 2020 09/21/20

Whitney Schmidt

Support for iOS 14 and Xcode 12 to accompany Apple’s Xcode 12 GM release was just announced! Now, build your Xamarin.iOS (and Xamarin.Forms for iOS) apps with Xcode 12 GM and submit your iOS 14, tvOS 14 or watchOS 7 apps to the Apple App Store.

Drawing UI with Xamarin.Forms Shapes and Paths

July 23, 2020 Jul 23, 2020 07/23/20

David Ortinau

Xamarin.Forms 4.7 introduces drawing controls for Shapes and Paths. These are powerful new cross-platform controls that use the familiar control syntax from UWP and WPF. As well as use the native graphics libraries on each target platform. Learn more!

App Themes for Xamarin.Forms

July 16, 2020 Jul 16, 2020 07/16/20

David Ortinau

This new dark and light mode theme helper, AppThemeBinding along with UserAppTheme make it really easy to handle theme modes in your Xamarin.Forms apps.

Reuse Xamarin.Forms Pages in an iOS Extension

May 22, 2020 May 22, 2020 05/22/20

alexeystrakh

Get a complete walkthrough on how to integrate Xamarin.Forms and render a simple ContentPage natively in an iOS Extension project. Read on to learn more!

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.

Every Xamarin.Forms Layout is a Repeater Control

March 4, 2020 Mar 4, 2020 03/4/20

James Montemagno

Repeating content and controls has never been easier by leveraging the built in Bindable Layout support in Xamarin.Forms to help create beautiful apps.

Toggling Tabs with Triggers

February 6, 2020 Feb 6, 2020 02/6/20

Ben Buttigieg

Learn more about how Xamarin.Forms makes setting Tab Icons super easy and how using Triggers allow you to set a property or group of properties based on the value of another property.