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CollectionView Drag & Drop Item Reordering with Gesture Recognizers
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 enable you to unlock these scenarios in your app. In this post I will guide you through everything you need to add drag & drop to your CollectionView. Drag & Drop Gesture Recognizers In previous posts you may have seen how drag and drop can be used with any control ...
Beautiful Tabs with Xamarin Community Toolkit TabView
One of the hardest parts of apps to customize is the tab bar. To overcome this, we've added the TabView to the Xamarin Community Toolkit. With the TabView you have full control over the look-and-feel of the tab bar. In this blogpost we'll learn what it's all about.
The New .NET Multi-platform App UI
With .NET 6 previews starting right around the corner, it is time to start getting excited for the new .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) that was announced at BUILD 2020. This year of .NET has a lot of amazing things for client application developers. Let's review the highlights and set your expectations for the year ahead.
Beautiful Custom RadioButton with Xamarin.Forms 5
Xamarin.Forms 5 introduced control templates for the new RadioButton control that gives you complete control and customization over the user interface.
Xamarin Community Toolkit: A Must-Have Xamarin Library
We are pleased to introduce the Xamarin Community Toolkit! The toolkit complements Xamarin.Forms 5 with all kinds of commonly found behaviors, converters, effects, MVVM utilities, and awesome new controls including the CameraView, AvatarView, and TabView.
Xamarin.Forms 5.0 is Here!
Xamarin.Forms 5 is here, delivering hundreds of quality improvements and brings to stable release new features including App Themes, Brushes, CarouselView, RadioButton, Shapes and Paths, and SwipeView.
Xamarin Holiday Hack Ideas
Are you looking for some code-related diversions this holiday season to pass the time and have some fun? So are we! Here are some ideas to help inspire us all.
December’s Community Standup – .NET MAUI Update
Join Xamarin & .NET MAUI team members Maddy Leger, David Ortinau, and Jon Dick for updates on .NET MAUI, the next generation of Xamarin.Forms to build cross-platform mobile and desktop apps.
Announcing Azure Mobile Apps v4.2.0 for .NET
Recently, we released a large update to the Azure Mobile Apps client libraries, enabling you to provide offline sync of cloud SQL data to your iOS and Android apps.