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A Dev Story: College Diary with Xamarin.Forms by 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!

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

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

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

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
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

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

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.

Preparing Apps for Google Play Android 10 Requirements
There are some new requirements coming to Google Play when it comes to publishing your apps. Learn about updating your apps to target Android 10 (API 29).