Xamarin Blog

The New .NET Multi-platform App UI

February 3, 2021 Feb 3, 2021 02/3/21

David Ortinau

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

January 29, 2021 Jan 29, 2021 01/29/21

James Montemagno

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

January 25, 2021 Jan 25, 2021 01/25/21

Gerald Versluis

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!

January 7, 2021 Jan 7, 2021 01/7/21

David Ortinau

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

December 21, 2020 Dec 21, 2020 12/21/20

David Ortinau

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

December 2, 2020 Dec 2, 2020 12/2/20

Maddy Montaquila

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

November 25, 2020 Nov 25, 2020 11/25/20

Adrian Hall

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.

Fabulous: Going Beyond Hello World

November 17, 2020 Nov 17, 2020 11/17/20

Timothé Larivière

In this guest blog from Fabulous maintainer Timothé Larivière shows us the next steps in leveraging F#, MVU, and Fabulous to build mobile apps with Xamarin.

Recapping Xamarin Highlights from .NET Conf 2020

November 12, 2020 Nov 12, 2020 11/12/20

Maddy Montaquila

Xamarin had a huge presence throughout .NET Conf, here’s a recap of all of the new features developers can use to build mobile apps including XAML Hot Reload 2.0, iOS Hot Restart, and Xamarin.Forms 5.0.

Xamarin Community Toolkit Hacktoberfest 2020 Recap

November 11, 2020 Nov 11, 2020 11/11/20

Gerald Versluis

It has been hard to miss, for the past month Hacktoberfest was upon us again. As announced in our previous blogpost, the Xamarin Community Toolkit participated as well, here is a little summary of how we did.