Xamarin Blog

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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. 

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!

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: 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!

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

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.

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

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 was released! Which brings several new features and improvements for mobile developers in Visual Studio for Mac to help you build better mobile apps, faster.