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Customer Showcase: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

September 24, 2020 Sep 24, 2020 09/24/20

Alex Blount

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is known for it’s many areas of involvement in the movie industry, but it is most famous for the annual awards show, The Oscar’s ®. See how the Academy migrated their infrastructure to Azure and leveraged Xamarin to deliver a rich, responsive experience to its members across a range of devices.

Preparing Apps for Google Play Android 10 Requirements

July 6, 2020 Jul 6, 2020 07/6/20

James Montemagno

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).

What’s New for Xamarin Developers in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5

April 8, 2020 Apr 8, 2020 04/8/20

Pierce Boggan

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.

Android Image Classification with TensorFlow Lite & Azure Custom Vision Service

March 27, 2020 Mar 27, 2020 03/27/20

Jayme Singleton

Image Classification allows our Xamarin apps to recognize objects in a photo. This article will walkthrough how to implement using Azure's Custom Vision Service, TensorFlow Lite (an open source machine learning platform) and Xamarin.Android.

Faster Application Startup using Custom Profiles with Startup Tracing on Android

March 19, 2020 Mar 19, 2020 03/19/20

Jon Douglas

Developers today can already take advantage of Startup Tracing to improve the startup time of their Android apps. Today, I will show you a new feature that let's you build a custom profile to be used for your app with Startup Tracing that finely tunes and optimizes your apps startup.

Binding Android Kotlin Libraries

March 9, 2020 Mar 9, 2020 03/9/20

alexeystrakh

The ability to reuse components built with Kotlin has become increasingly important to Xamarin developers as their popularity amongst developers continues to grow. This post describes a high-level process of binding a Kotlin framework. Additional information with a detailed walkthrough is now available at Microsoft documentation.

What’s New for Xamarin Developers in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac Version 8.5 Preview 2

January 29, 2020 Jan 29, 2020 01/29/20

Pierce Boggan

This week, Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 Preview 2 was released, bringing several new features and improvements for mobile developers in Visual Studio for Mac to help you build better mobile apps, faster.

DevOps for Android App Bundles

January 15, 2020 Jan 15, 2020 01/15/20

James Montemagno

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

January 13, 2020 Jan 13, 2020 01/13/20

Gerald Versluis

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.

Publish smaller apps with the Android App Bundle

December 27, 2019 Dec 27, 2019 12/27/19