Xamarin developers not only love building amazing mobile apps in C#, they also love helping the developer community at large. Whether through building great open-source libraries, components, and plugins or sharing their experience in forums, blog posts, and podcasts, our community consistently steps up to make development with Xamarin a pleasure. The links below will take you to some of our favorite content from our community over the past few weeks.

Podcasts

• Xamarin Podcast – Pierce Boggan & Mike James
• Gone Mobile – Greg Shackles & Jon Dick

Great Community Posts

• BDD Tests with Xamarin.UITest and SpecFlow – Rob Gibbens
• Taming the Android Activity, Part 1 & Part 2 – Adam Kemp
• Xamarin + The Internet of Things – Matt Pasco

Tools & Frameworks

• Akavache is AKA Awesome – Matthew Soucoup
• FreshMvvm – Michael Ridland
• Passwordless SMS Authentication with Twilio & Xamarin – Brent Schooley
• Plugins for Xamarin – Mark Trinder
• SignalR + Xamarin – Nitzan Zada

Xamarin.Forms

• Cross-Platform Animations with Xamarin.Forms – Mark Arteaga
• Finding Nemo: Implementing Xamarin.Forms SearchBar – Gerald Versluis
• Supercharging Xamarin Forms with Custom Renderers – Jeff Prosise
• Xamarin.Forms In Anger – Adam Wolf

Thanks to these developers for sharing their knowledge and insight with the rest of the Xamarin community! If you have an article or blog post about developing with Xamarin that you’d like to share, please let us know by tweeting at @XamarinHQ.