Xamarin Blog

Xamarin.Forms Shell Quick Tip – Passing Data When Navigating

James Montemagno May 13, 2020 May 13, 2020 05/13/20

Xamarin.Forms Shell offers built in route based navigation enabling easy navigation to and from pages in your application. Continue reading for a full walkthrough of how to pass data from one page to another.

Exposure Notification API Support for Xamarin Apps

Jon Dick May 6, 2020 May 6, 2020 05/6/20

Announcing the first preview of Exposure Notification APIs for devices. Read through to get a full breakdown of what APIs are available and our first preview of a full cross-platform API for Xamarin developers.

Virtual Xamarin and .NET Events in May

Jayme Singleton May 4, 2020 May 4, 2020 05/4/20

Stay virtually-active this May with your developer communities through engaging online events, live-streams, and on-demand videos, all from the comfort of home!

Xamarin Customer Showcase: PGS Software + Volotea

Jayme Singleton May 1, 2020 May 1, 2020 05/1/20

Xamarin Showcase: When Volotea, an airline leader connecting European cities with competitively priced direct flights, was looking to re-invent their mobile apps, PGS Software was there to build a beautiful app with Xamarin and .NET. 

Xamarin.Forms 4.6: Material Components, Shell, and the Future

David Ortinau April 29, 2020 Apr 29, 2020 04/29/20

Today, we are shipping Xamarin.Forms 4.6 with a host of quality improvements, including several new feature previews. With more controls available “in the box” than ever before, it has never been easier to quickly build quality mobile apps with Xamarin!

Xamarin.Essentials: Now with Permissions, App Theme, & Authentication

James Montemagno April 23, 2020 Apr 23, 2020 04/23/20

The latest version of Xamarin.Essentials (1.5) is packed full of beautiful native cross-platform APIs including app theme detection, permissions, web authentication, and so much more. Read on for details, samples, and guides to get started today.

The Cognitive Services + Xamarin Combo Challenge!

Matt Soucoup April 20, 2020 Apr 20, 2020 04/20/20

The Cognitive Services + Xamarin Combo Challenge: Combine some Azure Cognitive Services in the most crazy ways – and pop in some additional Xamarin goodness by April 30 to get some amazing Xamarin swag!

Xamarin Podcast: Logically Embed That Authentication

Matt Soucoup April 17, 2020 Apr 17, 2020 04/17/20

In this month's episode, James and Matt pull out all the stops about authentication and really Focus on Xamarin.

.NET Conf – Focus on Xamarin Event Recap

James Montemagno April 14, 2020 Apr 14, 2020 04/14/20

Checkout on-demand videos, code samples, and links from the largest Xamarin virutal event of the year, .NET Conf - Focus on Xamarin. Here is a full recap of every single moment from the event.

Sync Mobile Apps with the Cloud via Change Tracking API

Davide Mauri April 10, 2020 Apr 10, 2020 04/10/20

Change Tracking API + JSON will make your dev life and mobile application data sync so easy you won’t believe it’s Azure SQL.