Xamarin Blog

January Events for Xamarin and .NET Developers

Jayme SingletonJanuary 6, 2020Jan 6, 202001/6/20

New Year, tons of awesome new ways to kick off your resolutions with Xamarin and .NET related events this January. Explore all the recent news and updates with your community at developer Meetups around the world. Including online, virtual events to watch from the comfort of your home!

What’s New for Xamarin Developers in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4

Pierce BogganDecember 5, 2019Dec 5, 201912/5/19

The Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 release brings major productivity enhancements including the GA release of XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms, smaller Android APKs, tooling to migrate your applications to Android X, and numerous performance and reliability improvements.

Announcing the 2019 Xamarin Hacktoberfest Awards

Samantha HoutsNovember 15, 2019Nov 15, 201911/15/19

Announcing Hacktoberfest 2019 contributors and swag awards with a grand total of 178 pull requests opened by 72 contributors this year alone!

Xamarin.Forms 4.3 is live! Introducing CollectionView

Paul DiPietroOctober 22, 2019Oct 22, 201910/22/19

Announcing the stable release of Xamarin.Forms 4.3.0! Marking the removal of the experimental flag from CollectionView as it moves into stable status. Along with this, comes a number of enhancements and contributions from the community including SourceLink support, the ability to display HTML on Labels, and more!

Welcome to Partly Cloudy!

Matt SoucoupOctober 16, 2019Oct 16, 201910/16/19

Announcing a new series on Xamarin YouTube Channel called “Partly Cloudy“ with Matt Soucoup: Exploring topics around Azure, DevOps, and Xamarin to learn how to build an app from scratch - all the way through deployment to the App Stores!

Hacktoberfest 2019 – Xamarin Edition

David OrtinauOctober 8, 2019Oct 8, 201910/8/19

Code for cotton or from your love for Xamarin in this year's Hacktoberfest! Here are the guidelines to get you started. Be sure to tag your pull requests with the "Hacktoberfest" label to be considered for a reward.

CarouselView Challenge Wrap-up

Paul DiPietroOctober 4, 2019Oct 4, 201910/4/19

After the first prerelease of Xamarin.Forms 4.3 we asked you to participate in the CarouselView Challenge as a follow-up to the CollectionView Challenge. Now we look back on this challenge and report everything that we learned.

Android 10.0 General Availability

Jon DouglasSeptember 26, 2019Sep 26, 201909/26/19

We’re excited to announce Xamarin.Android support for Android 10.0 in our latest release of Xamarin.Android for both Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio for Mac 2019!

Announcing the Xamarin + Azure Functions Challenge!

Christos MatskasSeptember 24, 2019Sep 24, 201909/24/19

A new developer coding challenge has emerged. Do you have what it takes to build and run a simple Xamarin app that uses Azure Functions to run tasks in the cloud? Choose to enter and you'll find yourself in a draw for some really cool prizes. Read the blog for details - your challenge awaits.

Xamarin Announcements from .NET Conf 2019

Pierce BogganSeptember 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19

Today at .NET Conf 2019, we shared some exciting announcements for Xamarin and Visual Studio developers, enabling you to be more productive and use the full power, performance, and capabilities of iOS/Android in your applications.

Customer Showcase: Third Culture Apps’ Award Winning Xamarin Apps

James MontemagnoDecember 17, 2019Dec 17, 201912/17/19

Third Culture Apps build beautiful and simple, yet powerful apps using .NET and Xamarin such as Ruff, the 2019 Google Material Design Award recipient, and Appy Weather, 2019 Best of Google Play award winning apps.

Customer Showcase: BBVA – Augmented Reality House Hunting

Jayme SingletonMay 31, 2019May 31, 201905/31/19

Customer Showcase - BBVA discusses Valora View and the use of various Microsoft technologies to address business needs for a mobile app that helps customers look for houses to rent or buy using Augmented Reality, Big Data, and 2D heat map features with .NET and Xamarin.

Customer Showcase: Aggreko

Jayme SingletonApril 23, 2019Apr 23, 201904/23/19

We are excited to announce a new inclusion to our Xamarin Showcase gallery:,The Aggreko Technician App - A key objective of Aggreko’s company-wide Aggreko18 digital transformation program was to streamline field operations and revolutionize their technician processes.

Announcing the Xamarin + Azure Functions Challenge!

Christos MatskasSeptember 24, 2019Sep 24, 201909/24/19

A new developer coding challenge has emerged. Do you have what it takes to build and run a simple Xamarin app that uses Azure Functions to run tasks in the cloud? Choose to enter and you'll find yourself in a draw for some really cool prizes. Read the blog for details - your challenge awaits.

Upgrade Your App with Sentiment Analysis

Brandon MinnickOctober 4, 2018Oct 4, 201810/4/18

Azure's Text Analytics Service makes it easy to add sentiment analysis to our cross-platform apps. Let's see how with this to implement it in a Xamarin app!

Using Object Detection from inside your Xamarin app

Jim BennettSeptember 6, 2018Sep 6, 201809/6/18

Microsoft Cognitive Services provide a great way to get started with AI without being a machine learning or data science expert. A common favorite of cognitive services is the Custom Vision Service. The first version of this service allowed you to easily build an image classifier model that you could access either via a REST API (with an SDK available for Xamarin apps), or by downloading a model that can be run on your device using either CoreML, TensorFlow or WindowsML (we looked at using TensorFlow in an Android app in an earlier blog post).

DevOps for Android App Bundles

James MontemagnoJanuary 15, 2020Jan 15, 202001/15/20

Android App Bundle is a new app packaging format from Google for Android applications that dramatically reduces the install size for end users.

Simplifying Visual State Manager with TargetName

Gerald VersluisJanuary 13, 2020Jan 13, 202001/13/20

The Visual State Manager (VSM) can now change a property on any child element within scope for our new Xamarin.Forms 4.5 pre-release version.

Tips and Tricks for XAML Hot Reload

Maddy LegerJanuary 10, 2020Jan 10, 202001/10/20

Kick start your productive new year with some tips and tricks for XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms. Such as making changes to your XAML files, saving, and instantly seeing those changes reflected on your app!

Top Xamarin Blog Posts of 2019

James MontemagnoJanuary 7, 2020Jan 7, 202001/7/20

Let's take a look back at the top blog posts for Xamarin developers from 2019 packed full with new releases, exciting events, product announcements, and brand new features to boost productivity and accelerate mobile development!

January Events for Xamarin and .NET Developers

Jayme SingletonJanuary 6, 2020Jan 6, 202001/6/20

New Year, tons of awesome new ways to kick off your resolutions with Xamarin and .NET related events this January. Explore all the recent news and updates with your community at developer Meetups around the world. Including online, virtual events to watch from the comfort of your home!

Xamarin Challenge: Santa Talk – Build an Intelligent, Serverless Xamarin App

Matt SoucoupDecember 23, 2019Dec 23, 201912/23/19

This Winter Solstice, give the Xamarin holiday challenge a spin for a chance to win awesome Xamarin swag by forking or cloning the Santa Talk repo and submitting to GitHub!

Get Moving with Xamarin.Forms 4.4

David OrtinauDecember 12, 2019Dec 12, 201912/12/19

Introducing a new CarouselView control in Xamarin.Forms 4.4. Along with IndicatorView for displaying the pages or items in the carousel. As well as SwipeView for providing contextual actions to any element in a CollectionView.

What’s New for Xamarin Developers in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4

Pierce BogganDecember 5, 2019Dec 5, 201912/5/19

The Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 release brings major productivity enhancements including the GA release of XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms, smaller Android APKs, tooling to migrate your applications to Android X, and numerous performance and reliability improvements.

5 Quick Tips For CollectionView

David OrtinauNovember 26, 2019Nov 26, 201911/26/19

Get started with these quick tips on CollectionView to show off some useful new features and best practices for creating powerful native mobile experiences.

Relive Xamarin Developer Summit with On-Demand Videos

James MontemagnoNovember 22, 2019Nov 22, 201911/22/19

The Xamarin Developer Summit was a two-day event packed full of deep technical content from the Xamarin team and amazing community members. For those that couldn’t attend, the main sessions were recorded and available today on-demand!

Introducing the DevOps for Mobile Video Series

James MontemagnoOctober 9, 2019Oct 9, 201910/9/19

Introducing the DevOps for Mobile video series now streaming on YouTube and Channel 9. We tackle a wide range of topics including continuous integration, user interface testing, provisioning, distribution, and a lot more. We guide you through each topic with easy to follow demos, but more importantly we have conversations around each area.

The C# Developer’s Guide to Shipping Better Apps with Visual Studio App Center

James MontemagnoJanuary 16, 2018Jan 16, 201801/16/18

At our annual Microsoft Connect event in November, we announced the General Availability of Visual Studio App Center, combining our best developer services, incuding Xamarin Test Cloud and HockeyApp, into one free, easy-to-use cloud service to help you ship better apps, faster. From building in the cloud to automatically testing on thousands of real devices, distributing to testers and app stores, and monitoring real-time crash and analytics data, Visual Studio App Center fully supports Xamarin apps.

January Events for Xamarin and .NET Developers

Jayme SingletonJanuary 6, 2020Jan 6, 202001/6/20

New Year, tons of awesome new ways to kick off your resolutions with Xamarin and .NET related events this January. Explore all the recent news and updates with your community at developer Meetups around the world. Including online, virtual events to watch from the comfort of your home!

All Things Xamarin at Microsoft Ignite 2019

James MontemagnoNovember 12, 2019Nov 12, 201911/12/19

This year at Microsoft Ignite the Xamarin team was everywhere! In addition to being all around the Developer Architecture Center booths, there were sessions and workshops throughout the conference - all available on-demand!

Xamarin Podcast: .NET Conf Recap!

Matt SoucoupOctober 18, 2019Oct 18, 201910/18/19

Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. This month’s Xamarin Podcast episode features a full .NET Conf 2019 recap!

Welcome to Partly Cloudy!

Matt SoucoupOctober 16, 2019Oct 16, 201910/16/19

Announcing a new series on Xamarin YouTube Channel called “Partly Cloudy“ with Matt Soucoup: Exploring topics around Azure, DevOps, and Xamarin to learn how to build an app from scratch - all the way through deployment to the App Stores!

Introducing the DevOps for Mobile Video Series

James MontemagnoOctober 9, 2019Oct 9, 201910/9/19

Introducing the DevOps for Mobile video series now streaming on YouTube and Channel 9. We tackle a wide range of topics including continuous integration, user interface testing, provisioning, distribution, and a lot more. We guide you through each topic with easy to follow demos, but more importantly we have conversations around each area.

Keep Up to Date With the Latest Xamarin Docs

Craig DunnSeptember 10, 2019Sep 10, 201909/10/19

The Xamarin documentation portal is home to everything you need to know about building apps with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms. There you will find great quickstarts, tutorials, and deep-dive content. The docs are always updating and can easily be contributed to, so here are a few things on how to keep up with docs.

Get Started with Free Xamarin Training on Microsoft Learn

Adam PatridgeJune 21, 2019Jun 21, 201906/21/19

Learn how to build cross-platform mobile applications with the new Xamarin.Forms content on Microsoft Learn; A new and completely free platform where you can earn points and badges, level up, and advance your development skills.

The Next Evolution of Xamarin Training: Microsoft Learn

KarinaMay 6, 2019May 6, 201905/6/19

The Xamarin University team has joined Microsoft Learn to incorporate many of the great features Xamarin University has, to announce building Xamarin apps in Microsoft Learn: a free and interactive learning portal.

The New & Improved Xamarin Developers YouTube Channel!

James MontemagnoApril 18, 2019Apr 18, 201904/18/19

We are excited to re-launch our Xamarin Developers YouTube channel where you will find fresh content on building amazing mobile apps directly from the Xamarin team at Microsoft. We have teamed up with our community and built a video to show off this channel.

Getting Started With WorkManager

Jon DouglasApril 8, 2019Apr 8, 201904/8/19

Give a warm welcome to WorkManager. WorkManager is a library that makes it easy to schedule deferrable, asynchronous tasks even if the app exits or the device restarts. It was designed to be backwards compatible to API 14 and does so by wrapping JobScheduler, AlarmManager, and BroadcastReceivers all in one.

January Events for Xamarin and .NET Developers

Jayme SingletonJanuary 6, 2020Jan 6, 202001/6/20

New Year, tons of awesome new ways to kick off your resolutions with Xamarin and .NET related events this January. Explore all the recent news and updates with your community at developer Meetups around the world. Including online, virtual events to watch from the comfort of your home!

Xamarin Challenge: Santa Talk – Build an Intelligent, Serverless Xamarin App

Matt SoucoupDecember 23, 2019Dec 23, 201912/23/19

This Winter Solstice, give the Xamarin holiday challenge a spin for a chance to win awesome Xamarin swag by forking or cloning the Santa Talk repo and submitting to GitHub!

December Xamarin and .NET Events

Jayme SingletonDecember 2, 2019Dec 2, 201912/2/19

December is a wonderful time to discover Xamarin and .NET development. Explore all the latest news and updates with your community at developer events around the world, as well as find a bunch of virtual events to watch online!

Relive Xamarin Developer Summit with On-Demand Videos

James MontemagnoNovember 22, 2019Nov 22, 201911/22/19

The Xamarin Developer Summit was a two-day event packed full of deep technical content from the Xamarin team and amazing community members. For those that couldn’t attend, the main sessions were recorded and available today on-demand!

All Things Xamarin at Microsoft Ignite 2019

James MontemagnoNovember 12, 2019Nov 12, 201911/12/19

This year at Microsoft Ignite the Xamarin team was everywhere! In addition to being all around the Developer Architecture Center booths, there were sessions and workshops throughout the conference - all available on-demand!

November Xamarin and .NET Developer Events

Jayme SingletonOctober 31, 2019Oct 31, 201910/31/19

This November, explore Xamarin and .NET development with your community at developer events all around the world. Find endless opportunities including conferences like She Sharp Conference, as well as virtual events online like Ignite!

Xamarin Podcast: .NET Conf Recap!

Matt SoucoupOctober 18, 2019Oct 18, 201910/18/19

Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. This month’s Xamarin Podcast episode features a full .NET Conf 2019 recap!

Hacktoberfest 2019 – Xamarin Edition

David OrtinauOctober 8, 2019Oct 8, 201910/8/19

Code for cotton or from your love for Xamarin in this year's Hacktoberfest! Here are the guidelines to get you started. Be sure to tag your pull requests with the "Hacktoberfest" label to be considered for a reward.

October Xamarin and .NET Developer Events

Jayme SingletonOctober 1, 2019Oct 1, 201910/1/19

Discover the world of Xamarin and .NET with your community at developer events in October. Find tons of opportunities around the globe, including conferences and virtual events online!

Xamarin Announcements from .NET Conf 2019

Pierce BogganSeptember 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19

Today at .NET Conf 2019, we shared some exciting announcements for Xamarin and Visual Studio developers, enabling you to be more productive and use the full power, performance, and capabilities of iOS/Android in your applications.

Send Surveys, Collect Feedback, and Smash Bugs with One Line of Code with Instabug

charlotteswanAugust 23, 2019Aug 23, 201908/23/19

In this Guest Blog post learn why having in-app feedback is important to application success and how Instabug can enable a super simple way to stream line user feedback and crash reporting.

Add Contact Features in 4 Lines of Code with Xamarin.Essentials

James MontemagnoAugust 2, 2019Aug 2, 201908/2/19

See how you can create a contact application to send an sms, email, place a phone call, and navigate to a location with just 4 lines of code with Xamarin.Essentials.

Xamarin.Essentials welcomes tvOS, watchOS, and Tizen

James MontemagnoJuly 12, 2019Jul 12, 201907/12/19

Xamarin.Essentials, your favorite cross-platform library to access native features from shared code adds new file bases APIs for sharing, email, and opening. It also adds watchOS, tvOS, and Tizen platform support in the 1.3 pre-update!

Persisting Settings and Preferences in Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Essentials

James MontemagnoFebruary 19, 2019Feb 19, 201902/19/19

An essential part of any mobile application is the ability to persist data. Sometimes that is a large amount of data that requires a database, but often it is smaller pieces of data such as settings and preferences that need to be persisted between application launches. This is where Xamarin.Essentials can help out with its wide range of cross-platform APIs for mobile apps.

Easily Check Mobile Device Connectivity with Xamarin.Essentials

James MontemagnoFebruary 12, 2019Feb 12, 201902/12/19

As a mobile app developer, it's great to be able to pull data from the server to our apps to provide users with a delightful experience. Of course, until your user puts their device on airplane mode or hits a rough patch with no cell reception. To provide the best user experience we need access to the current network state of our users' device. Better yet, be able to register for changes to that network state. Doing this will allow our mobile apps to react to different network conditions to provide users with instant feedback. With the connectivity API in Xamarin.Essentials, we can do just that with a few lines of code.

Protect your Xamarin.Android Apps at Runtime with Dotfuscator

Bill LeachOctober 12, 2018Oct 12, 201810/12/18

n a previous blog we discussed obfuscating your Xamarin application with Dotfuscator Community to protect it from reverse-engineering. That kind of protection is an important and necessary layer in your application's security posture, but it shouldn't be the only layer. The application also needs to react to threats at runtime in order to protect its own integrity, and to protect the data that it accesses.

Upgrade Your App with Sentiment Analysis

Brandon MinnickOctober 4, 2018Oct 4, 201810/4/18

Azure's Text Analytics Service makes it easy to add sentiment analysis to our cross-platform apps. Let's see how with this to implement it in a Xamarin app!

Using Object Detection from inside your Xamarin app

Jim BennettSeptember 6, 2018Sep 6, 201809/6/18

Microsoft Cognitive Services provide a great way to get started with AI without being a machine learning or data science expert. A common favorite of cognitive services is the Custom Vision Service. The first version of this service allowed you to easily build an image classifier model that you could access either via a REST API (with an SDK available for Xamarin apps), or by downloading a model that can be run on your device using either CoreML, TensorFlow or WindowsML (we looked at using TensorFlow in an Android app in an earlier blog post).

Guest Post: Visual UI tests on iOS simulator using Xamarin and Appium

Sophie TagarJuly 30, 2018Jul 30, 201807/30/18

In this tutorial, you will learn how to integrate automated visual user interface tests into a development toolchain that includes Xcode iOS simulator using Xamarin, Appium, Applitools, and macOS.

Export To Application Insights With AppCenter Continuous Export

Mayur TendulkarJuly 9, 2018Jul 9, 201807/9/18

Five-star mobile apps have one special feature: they don’t let go of their users. This can be achieved by understanding your app, the app’s users, and how these users interact with your app. The deep customer insights offered by AppCenter's Continuous Export provide a better understanding of your customers and help boost retention. By default, you receive information about your active users, their active sessions, top devices, country, language, and more!

Simplifying Visual State Manager with TargetName

Gerald VersluisJanuary 13, 2020Jan 13, 202001/13/20

The Visual State Manager (VSM) can now change a property on any child element within scope for our new Xamarin.Forms 4.5 pre-release version.

Build Great Xamarin Apps with App Center

Ela Malani [MSFT]October 24, 2019Oct 24, 201910/24/19

Visual Studio App Center offers integrated and end-to-end developer services for building, managing and powering your Xamarin iOS and Android apps. Easily integrate globally scalable backend services with just a few lines of code. Automate your build, test, and distribution pipelines, while continuously monitoring real-time performance.

Xamarin Announcements from .NET Conf 2019

Pierce BogganSeptember 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19

Today at .NET Conf 2019, we shared some exciting announcements for Xamarin and Visual Studio developers, enabling you to be more productive and use the full power, performance, and capabilities of iOS/Android in your applications.

Get Ready for iOS 13 and Xcode 11

David OrtinauSeptember 13, 2019Sep 13, 201909/13/19

Support for iOS 13 and Xcode 11 to accompany Apple’s Xcode Gold Master (GM) release has just been announced! Now, build your Xamarin.iOS (and Xamarin.Forms for iOS) apps with Xcode 11 GM and submit your iOS 13, tvOS 13 and watchOS 6 apps to the Apple App Store.

Modernizing iOS Apps for Dark Mode with Xamarin

David OrtinauAugust 30, 2019Aug 30, 201908/30/19

Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Forms deliver native iOS experiences for iOS 13 Apple which introduces dark mode: A system-wide option for light and dark themes to choose themes or allow iOS to dynamically change appearance based on the environment and time of day.

Send Surveys, Collect Feedback, and Smash Bugs with One Line of Code with Instabug

charlotteswanAugust 23, 2019Aug 23, 201908/23/19

In this Guest Blog post learn why having in-app feedback is important to application success and how Instabug can enable a super simple way to stream line user feedback and crash reporting.

Snppts – Beautiful UI Snippets for Xamarin.Forms

steventhewissenJuly 15, 2019Jul 15, 201907/15/19

Guest Post: Snppts allows you to contribute your user interface designs created in Xamarin to benefit other community members and to show off your work. Contributing is as simple as creating a PR on our repository with your author and snippet information. Learn more...

iOS 13 Preview Release Now Available

Pierce BogganJuly 3, 2019Jul 3, 201907/3/19

Today, we are excited to share our first preview containing support for iOS 13 and Xcode 11! With today's preview, you can begin building applications using Xcode 13 and begin integrating existing new APIs for iOS 13 such as Sign in with Apple, along with support for iPadOS 13, watchOS 6, tvOS 13, and macOS 10.15.

Use Maps to Display and Navigate Users with Xamarin.Essentials

James MontemagnoJune 7, 2019Jun 7, 201906/7/19

Browse the Xamarin.Essentials Maps documentation to learn about all of the great cross-platform native APIs with additional implementation and limitation details. Xamarin.Essentials is open source on GitHub where you can report issues, ask for features, and contribute to the library.

Introducing the Xamarin.iOS Interpreter

Chris HamonsMarch 26, 2019Mar 26, 201903/26/19

Historically iOS applications have had a number of limitations when running on a device, as Apple disallows the execution of dynamically generated code. Applications are compiled “Ahead of Time” (AOT) before deployment because of this. You can read more about this architecture here.

Get Ready for iOS 13 and Xcode 11

David OrtinauSeptember 13, 2019Sep 13, 201909/13/19

Support for iOS 13 and Xcode 11 to accompany Apple’s Xcode Gold Master (GM) release has just been announced! Now, build your Xamarin.iOS (and Xamarin.Forms for iOS) apps with Xcode 11 GM and submit your iOS 13, tvOS 13 and watchOS 6 apps to the Apple App Store.

iOS 13 Preview Release Now Available

Pierce BogganJuly 3, 2019Jul 3, 201907/3/19

Today, we are excited to share our first preview containing support for iOS 13 and Xcode 11! With today's preview, you can begin building applications using Xcode 13 and begin integrating existing new APIs for iOS 13 such as Sign in with Apple, along with support for iPadOS 13, watchOS 6, tvOS 13, and macOS 10.15.

Migrating MacOS Apps to 64-bit Before the Apple Transition

David OrtinauJune 26, 2019Jun 26, 201906/26/19

Apple has been moving towards 64-bit only applications on macOS for a number of releases. Though new Xamarin.Mac applications target 64-bit by default, any existing Xamarin.Mac applications that target 32-bit must be migrated to 64-bit to continue working in the future. Learn more.

Getting Ready for macOS’s Hardened Runtime and Notary

David OrtinauApril 15, 2019Apr 15, 201904/15/19

With macOS Mojave, Apple introduced support for Hardened Runtime and Notary service. These two services are designed to improve application security on macOS. Recently Apple has stated:

“Beginning in macOS 10.14.5, all new or updated kernel extensions and all software from developers new to distributing with Developer ID must be notarized in order to run. In a future version of macOS, notarization will be required by default for all software.”

CoreML Programming with Xamarin.Mac and F#

Larry O'BrienJanuary 4, 2018Jan 4, 201801/4/18

Although Xamarin technologies are most commonly used to develop mobile applications, Xamarin.Mac makes it easy to use your preferred .NET language to develop desktop Mac apps. There are many C# examples in Xamarin’s mac-samples directory on Github, but it's also easy to use F# to develop desktop Mac apps as well.

January Events for Xamarin and .NET Developers

Jayme SingletonJanuary 6, 2020Jan 6, 202001/6/20

New Year, tons of awesome new ways to kick off your resolutions with Xamarin and .NET related events this January. Explore all the recent news and updates with your community at developer Meetups around the world. Including online, virtual events to watch from the comfort of your home!

Xamarin Podcast: All The New 4’s: Xamarin Forms 4.4 and Visual Studio 16.4!

Matt SoucoupDecember 20, 2019Dec 20, 201912/20/19

Keep up with the latest in .NET, C#, Xamarin, and Azure with co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno! Covering a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management.

This month’s episode we’re all about the new 4’s! Xamarin.Forms 4.4 and Visual Studio 16.4!

Xamarin Podcast: .NET Conf Recap!

Matt SoucoupOctober 18, 2019Oct 18, 201910/18/19

Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. This month’s Xamarin Podcast episode features a full .NET Conf 2019 recap!

Welcome to Partly Cloudy!

Matt SoucoupOctober 16, 2019Oct 16, 201910/16/19

Announcing a new series on Xamarin YouTube Channel called “Partly Cloudy“ with Matt Soucoup: Exploring topics around Azure, DevOps, and Xamarin to learn how to build an app from scratch - all the way through deployment to the App Stores!

Simplifying Visual State Manager with TargetName

Gerald VersluisJanuary 13, 2020Jan 13, 202001/13/20

The Visual State Manager (VSM) can now change a property on any child element within scope for our new Xamarin.Forms 4.5 pre-release version.

What’s New for Xamarin Developers in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4

Pierce BogganDecember 5, 2019Dec 5, 201912/5/19

The Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 release brings major productivity enhancements including the GA release of XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms, smaller Android APKs, tooling to migrate your applications to Android X, and numerous performance and reliability improvements.

Xamarin Announcements from .NET Conf 2019

Pierce BogganSeptember 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19

Today at .NET Conf 2019, we shared some exciting announcements for Xamarin and Visual Studio developers, enabling you to be more productive and use the full power, performance, and capabilities of iOS/Android in your applications.

Announcing Xamarin Hot Restart

Jimmy GarridoSeptember 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19

Today at .NET Conf 2019, we announced Xamarin Hot Restart which enables you to test changes made to your app, including multi-file code edits, resources, and references, using a much faster build and deploy cycle.

.NET Conf and Local Events!

Jayme SingletonSeptember 18, 2019Sep 18, 201909/18/19

.NET Conf: a FREE, 3-day virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft, is live-streaming to a device near you on September 23-25 with local events around the world through October! .NET Core 3.0 will also launch at .NET Conf 2019 - You won't want to miss this.

What’s New for Xamarin Developers in Visual Studio 2019 Previews

Pierce BogganAugust 13, 2019Aug 13, 201908/13/19

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 Preview 2 and Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.3 Preview 2 released with major productivity enhancements: XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms, improvements to the XAML Previewer, along with support for the latest Android Q APIs.

Get Ready for iOS 13 and Xcode 11

David OrtinauSeptember 13, 2019Sep 13, 201909/13/19

Support for iOS 13 and Xcode 11 to accompany Apple’s Xcode Gold Master (GM) release has just been announced! Now, build your Xamarin.iOS (and Xamarin.Forms for iOS) apps with Xcode 11 GM and submit your iOS 13, tvOS 13 and watchOS 6 apps to the Apple App Store.

Xamarin.Essentials welcomes tvOS, watchOS, and Tizen

James MontemagnoJuly 12, 2019Jul 12, 201907/12/19

Xamarin.Essentials, your favorite cross-platform library to access native features from shared code adds new file bases APIs for sharing, email, and opening. It also adds watchOS, tvOS, and Tizen platform support in the 1.3 pre-update!

iOS 13 Preview Release Now Available

Pierce BogganJuly 3, 2019Jul 3, 201907/3/19

Today, we are excited to share our first preview containing support for iOS 13 and Xcode 11! With today's preview, you can begin building applications using Xcode 13 and begin integrating existing new APIs for iOS 13 such as Sign in with Apple, along with support for iPadOS 13, watchOS 6, tvOS 13, and macOS 10.15.

Get Your Apps Ready for Apple’s New Watch Processor Architecture

Chris HamonsMarch 20, 2019Mar 20, 201903/20/19

Important changes are coming to watchOS! Checkout our support for Apple Watch Series 4 new processor architecture, ARM64_32 based on the Xamarin.iOS SDKs shipping with Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio 2019 for Mac.

Get Ready for iOS 12 and Xcode 10

David OrtinauSeptember 19, 2018Sep 19, 201809/19/18

Support for iOS 12 and Xcode 10 to accompany Apple’s Xcode Gold Master (GM) release has just been announced! We have also published updated documentation and samples to help you quickly get started with all the latest new features. Now, build your Xamarin.iOS (and of course Xamarin.Forms for iOS) applications with Xcode 10 GM and submit your iOS 12, tvOS 12, and watchOS 5 applications to the Apple App Store.

Tips and Tricks for XAML Hot Reload

Maddy LegerJanuary 10, 2020Jan 10, 202001/10/20

Kick start your productive new year with some tips and tricks for XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms. Such as making changes to your XAML files, saving, and instantly seeing those changes reflected on your app!

Top Xamarin Videos of 2019

James MontemagnoJanuary 8, 2020Jan 8, 202001/8/20

With 50,000 subscribers and climbing the Xamarin Developers YouTube has been growing immensely in the last year. Let's take a look at the top videos, new shows, and major accomplishments from the last year.

Publish smaller apps with the Android App Bundle

Jon DouglasDecember 27, 2019Dec 27, 201912/27/19

The Android App Bundle (.aab) is a new upload format that includes all of your app’s compiled code and resources, but defers APK generation and signing to Google Play at install time.

Xamarin Challenge: Santa Talk – Build an Intelligent, Serverless Xamarin App

Matt SoucoupDecember 23, 2019Dec 23, 201912/23/19

This Winter Solstice, give the Xamarin holiday challenge a spin for a chance to win awesome Xamarin swag by forking or cloning the Santa Talk repo and submitting to GitHub!

Xamarin Podcast: All The New 4’s: Xamarin Forms 4.4 and Visual Studio 16.4!

Matt SoucoupDecember 20, 2019Dec 20, 201912/20/19

Keep up with the latest in .NET, C#, Xamarin, and Azure with co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno! Covering a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management.

This month’s episode we’re all about the new 4’s! Xamarin.Forms 4.4 and Visual Studio 16.4!

December Xamarin and .NET Events

Jayme SingletonDecember 2, 2019Dec 2, 201912/2/19

December is a wonderful time to discover Xamarin and .NET development. Explore all the latest news and updates with your community at developer events around the world, as well as find a bunch of virtual events to watch online!

5 Quick Tips For CollectionView

David OrtinauNovember 26, 2019Nov 26, 201911/26/19

Get started with these quick tips on CollectionView to show off some useful new features and best practices for creating powerful native mobile experiences.

Pull-to-refresh with Xamarin.Forms RefreshView

James MontemagnoNovember 20, 2019Nov 20, 201911/20/19

The RefreshView control was introduced alongside CollectionView in Xamarin.Forms 4.3 to give you complete control over adding pull-to-refresh to any scrollable control.

Simplifying Visual State Manager with TargetName

Gerald VersluisJanuary 13, 2020Jan 13, 202001/13/20

The Visual State Manager (VSM) can now change a property on any child element within scope for our new Xamarin.Forms 4.5 pre-release version.

Tips and Tricks for XAML Hot Reload

Maddy LegerJanuary 10, 2020Jan 10, 202001/10/20

Kick start your productive new year with some tips and tricks for XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms. Such as making changes to your XAML files, saving, and instantly seeing those changes reflected on your app!

Top Xamarin Blog Posts of 2019

James MontemagnoJanuary 7, 2020Jan 7, 202001/7/20

Let's take a look back at the top blog posts for Xamarin developers from 2019 packed full with new releases, exciting events, product announcements, and brand new features to boost productivity and accelerate mobile development!

Xamarin Podcast: All The New 4’s: Xamarin Forms 4.4 and Visual Studio 16.4!

Matt SoucoupDecember 20, 2019Dec 20, 201912/20/19

Keep up with the latest in .NET, C#, Xamarin, and Azure with co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno! Covering a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management.

This month’s episode we’re all about the new 4’s! Xamarin.Forms 4.4 and Visual Studio 16.4!

Get Moving with Xamarin.Forms 4.4

David OrtinauDecember 12, 2019Dec 12, 201912/12/19

Introducing a new CarouselView control in Xamarin.Forms 4.4. Along with IndicatorView for displaying the pages or items in the carousel. As well as SwipeView for providing contextual actions to any element in a CollectionView.

5 Quick Tips For CollectionView

David OrtinauNovember 26, 2019Nov 26, 201911/26/19

Get started with these quick tips on CollectionView to show off some useful new features and best practices for creating powerful native mobile experiences.

Pull-to-refresh with Xamarin.Forms RefreshView

James MontemagnoNovember 20, 2019Nov 20, 201911/20/19

The RefreshView control was introduced alongside CollectionView in Xamarin.Forms 4.3 to give you complete control over adding pull-to-refresh to any scrollable control.

All Things Xamarin at Microsoft Ignite 2019

James MontemagnoNovember 12, 2019Nov 12, 201911/12/19

This year at Microsoft Ignite the Xamarin team was everywhere! In addition to being all around the Developer Architecture Center booths, there were sessions and workshops throughout the conference - all available on-demand!

Snppts Community Challenge

James MontemagnoNovember 1, 2019Nov 1, 201911/1/19

We are excited to announce our first ever community challenge featuring Snppts: a community-run Xamarin.Forms UI snippets aggregate. Simply submit a snippet to be eligible for exclusive swag!

Xamarin.Forms 4.3 is live! Introducing CollectionView

Paul DiPietroOctober 22, 2019Oct 22, 201910/22/19

Announcing the stable release of Xamarin.Forms 4.3.0! Marking the removal of the experimental flag from CollectionView as it moves into stable status. Along with this, comes a number of enhancements and contributions from the community including SourceLink support, the ability to display HTML on Labels, and more!

DevOps for Android App Bundles

James MontemagnoJanuary 15, 2020Jan 15, 202001/15/20

Android App Bundle is a new app packaging format from Google for Android applications that dramatically reduces the install size for end users.

Tips and Tricks for XAML Hot Reload

Maddy LegerJanuary 10, 2020Jan 10, 202001/10/20

Kick start your productive new year with some tips and tricks for XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms. Such as making changes to your XAML files, saving, and instantly seeing those changes reflected on your app!

Top Xamarin Blog Posts of 2019

James MontemagnoJanuary 7, 2020Jan 7, 202001/7/20

Let's take a look back at the top blog posts for Xamarin developers from 2019 packed full with new releases, exciting events, product announcements, and brand new features to boost productivity and accelerate mobile development!

What’s New for Xamarin Developers in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4

Pierce BogganDecember 5, 2019Dec 5, 201912/5/19

The Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 release brings major productivity enhancements including the GA release of XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms, smaller Android APKs, tooling to migrate your applications to Android X, and numerous performance and reliability improvements.

November Xamarin and .NET Developer Events

Jayme SingletonOctober 31, 2019Oct 31, 201910/31/19

This November, explore Xamarin and .NET development with your community at developer events all around the world. Find endless opportunities including conferences like She Sharp Conference, as well as virtual events online like Ignite!

Xamarin Podcast: .NET Conf Recap!

Matt SoucoupOctober 18, 2019Oct 18, 201910/18/19

Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. This month’s Xamarin Podcast episode features a full .NET Conf 2019 recap!

Introducing the DevOps for Mobile Video Series

James MontemagnoOctober 9, 2019Oct 9, 201910/9/19

Introducing the DevOps for Mobile video series now streaming on YouTube and Channel 9. We tackle a wide range of topics including continuous integration, user interface testing, provisioning, distribution, and a lot more. We guide you through each topic with easy to follow demos, but more importantly we have conversations around each area.

Hacktoberfest 2019 – Xamarin Edition

David OrtinauOctober 8, 2019Oct 8, 201910/8/19

Code for cotton or from your love for Xamarin in this year's Hacktoberfest! Here are the guidelines to get you started. Be sure to tag your pull requests with the "Hacktoberfest" label to be considered for a reward.

Announcing the Xamarin + Azure Functions Challenge!

Christos MatskasSeptember 24, 2019Sep 24, 201909/24/19

A new developer coding challenge has emerged. Do you have what it takes to build and run a simple Xamarin app that uses Azure Functions to run tasks in the cloud? Choose to enter and you'll find yourself in a draw for some really cool prizes. Read the blog for details - your challenge awaits.

Xamarin Announcements from .NET Conf 2019

Pierce BogganSeptember 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19

Today at .NET Conf 2019, we shared some exciting announcements for Xamarin and Visual Studio developers, enabling you to be more productive and use the full power, performance, and capabilities of iOS/Android in your applications.

Tips and Tricks for XAML Hot Reload

Maddy LegerJanuary 10, 2020Jan 10, 202001/10/20

Kick start your productive new year with some tips and tricks for XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms. Such as making changes to your XAML files, saving, and instantly seeing those changes reflected on your app!