Great Content from Our Community

Not only does the Xamarin community build amazing mobile apps in C#, they also contribute an enormous amount back to the community. For some, that means blogging or writing articles. For others, this translates to creating components that save other developers lots of time, effort, and money. Whatever the means, we are blessed to have such a strong community that shares their experiences and hard work with others. The following links are a collection of some of our favorites over the past few weeks.

Xamarin.Forms

• Write Once, Run Anywhere, AND Be Native? – Scott Hanselman
• Build Your First App – Michael Ridland
• Creating a Drawing App Using Xamarin.Forms – Mitch Milam
• Building AppyLinks with Xamarin.Forms – Pete Miller

Xamarin Studio

• The Future of Debugging in Xamarin Studio – Jeff Stedfast
• Paste JSON as Classes – Prashant Cholachagudda
• “Show in GitHub” Add-In – Lluis Sanchez
• NuGet Support in Xamarin Studio 5 – Matt Ward

F#

• Xamarin 3 F# Awesomeness – Dave Thomas
• Cross-Platform Mobile with Xamarin and F# – Rachael Reese and NYC Mobile Developers

Cross-Platform

• The Bait and Switch PCL Trick – Paul Betts
• Internationalization of a Cross-Platform Application – Giovanni Modica

Apps

Play Mangus – Chess

Toggl – Insanely Simple Time Tracking

Components

• ArcGIS – Utilize the power of the ArcGIS Mapping Platform on Android and iOS
• Couchbase Light for .NET – A lightweight, document-oriented (NoSQL), syncable database engine
• Rivets – C# implementation of App Links which allows mobile deep linking from the web and mobile-to-mobile linking

Webinars

• Say Hello to Xamarin 3
• Developing with Google Glass and Xamarin
• Developing Native iOS and Android Apps in Visual Studio

What better way to learn more about the newest Xamarin launch than to see it in action? Build your first Xamarin.Forms app, submit it to our contest, and you could win a trip to Xamarin Evolve 2014! Additionally, there are developer groups meeting across the world to celebrate the launch of Xamarin 3 with you. There will be something for everyone, regardless of mobile or Xamarin experience.

If you have an article or blog post about developing with Xamarin that you would like to share, tweet to @xamarinhq.