Xamarin Blog

App First Run Detection with Xamarin.Essentials

James Montemagno August 19, 2020 Aug 19, 2020 08/19/20

Several great approaches to check if and when your app is launching. For the very first run or for a specific version, all using Xamarin.Essentials! Easily detect the first time your user has run your application or for a specific version to easily integrate prompts.

Profiling Xamarin.Android Startup

Jonathan Peppers August 14, 2020 Aug 14, 2020 08/14/20

Measure, optimize, and fine-tune the performance of your Android apps build with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms with these tips and tricks using great tools.

A Dev Story: College Diary with Xamarin.Forms by Theodora Tataru

Theodora Tataru August 12, 2020 Aug 12, 2020 08/12/20

Guest Blog: Theodora Tataru shares her developer story of finding Xamarin and building out her new app, College Diary.

Xamarin.Forms 4.8 – Gradients & Brushes, Drag & Drop, and More!

Jake Kirsch August 7, 2020 Aug 7, 2020 08/7/20

Check out the latest release of Xamarin.Forms 4.8 that introduces gradients, brushes, drag & drop, and so much more! Head inside for all of the release details.

.NET Virtual Events in August

Jayme Singleton July 31, 2020 Jul 31, 2020 07/31/20

Take your .NET & Xamarin development skills to the next level in August through this list of the amazing online events, streams, and videos for you to tune into straight from home!

Drawing UI with Xamarin.Forms Shapes and Paths

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

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!

Mastering Multilingual in Xamarin.Forms

Jayme Singleton July 21, 2020 Jul 21, 2020 07/21/20

This guest post by Charlin Agramonte elaborates on how multilingual support is one of the most common requirements for mobile apps and the simplicity of building mobile apps with Xamarin that handle multiple languages.

Xamarin Podcast: Inverter Converter and Xamarin.Forms 4.7

Matt Soucoup July 17, 2020 Jul 17, 2020 07/17/20

In this month’s episode, James and Matt recap the 100% remote Microsoft Build that happened at the end of May 2020. They also talk about some new Azure + Xamarin docs and how to reuse Xamarin.Forms in iOS extensions.

App Themes for Xamarin.Forms

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

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.

Introducing C# Markup for Xamarin.Forms

Jayme Singleton July 15, 2020 Jul 15, 2020 07/15/20

C# Markup for Xamarin.Forms enables developers to seamlessly create user interfaces in C# code with built in markup extensions. In this guest blog post Vincent will walk-through how to setup C# markup and all of the great built in features.