Xamarin Blog

Xamarin.Forms Shell Quick Tip – Modal Navigation

September 4, 2020 Sep 4, 2020 09/4/20

James Montemagno

Control exactly how your pages are displayed when navigating leveraging the PresentationMode built into Xamarin.Forms Shell to display modal dialogs animated or not!

.NET Virtual Events in September

September 1, 2020 Sep 1, 2020 09/1/20

Jayme Singleton

Virtually tune-in to any event around the world through amazing online events, streams, and recordings this September. Stay active with your developer communities through upcoming MeetUps. Get lots of content from the teams at Microsoft and the global community. And learn how to get started with .NET and Xamarin!

Xamarin Podcast: Drawing, Visual Studio 2019, Virtual Meetups & More!

August 24, 2020 Aug 24, 2020 08/24/20

Matt Soucoup

In this month's podcast episode, James and Matt explore drawing with Xamarin.Forms, discuss latest new releases of Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio for Mac, as well as how to get your virtual meetup rolling with the .NET Foundation.

App First Run Detection with Xamarin.Essentials

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

James Montemagno

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

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

Jonathan Peppers

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

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

Theodora Tataru

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!

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

Jake Kirsch

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

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

Jayme Singleton

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

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

David Ortinau

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

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

Jayme Singleton

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.