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Jul 26, 2019
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Xamarin and Azure Office Hours Recap: Mid-2019

Matt Soucoup
Matt Soucoup

It has been an exciting couple of months, and Matt recaps all of the excitement during his office hours! If you’re interested in talking about anything Xamarin, mobile development, or Azure, please sign-up for Matt's office hours.

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Jul 25, 2019
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Introducing AndroidX for Xamarin

Jon Douglas
Jon Douglas

The Android team has refactored the Support Library into a new set of extension libraries known as AndroidX which includes simplified package names to better reflect each package’s content and it’s supported API levels.

AndroidDevelopersAnnouncements
Jul 24, 2019
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Faster Startup Times With Startup Tracing On Android

Jon Douglas
Jon Douglas

Announcing faster starter times using Startup Tracing on Android with performant startup experience and minimal increase to APK size.

AndroidDevelopersAnnouncements
Jun 24, 2019
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Faster Xamarin.Android Builds & Smaller Dex Files

Jonathan Peppers
Jonathan Peppers

One of our current focus areas in Xamarin.Android is build performance and reducing the multidex count. Developer productivity is directly impacted by the "inner dev loop": the time it takes to make a small code change and see the result on a device or emulator. Performance is a feature!

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Jun 17, 2019
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Automatic Android SDK Management

Jon Douglas
Jon Douglas

Continuously improving the experience with Automatic Android SDK Management tools that are used under the hood to build, deploy, and debug your Android applications. Enabled by default, Auto SDK will provide you with various prompts throughout the lifecycle of your app’s development. Learn more!

AndroidDevelopers
May 9, 2019
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Xamarin API Docs: Open Sourced and Available Now

Larry O'Brien
Larry O'Brien

Today, we are happy to announce the release of all Xamarin API documentation as Open Source. Additionally, we have moved the hosting of Xamarin.Forms, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.iOS & Xamarin.Mac, and SkiaSharp from their old Xamarin home to docs.microsoft.com.

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Apr 22, 2019
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Shrinking Your Android App Size

Jon Douglas
Jon Douglas

When it comes to application size, bigger is not better. In fact, it’s one of the key factors a user takes into mind when considering installing or uninstalling your application. Imagine if a user ran out of space on their device and your app was one of the biggest offenders for used space. It would be quite a shame for your application to be one o...

AndroidDevelopers
Apr 8, 2019
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Getting Started With WorkManager

Jon Douglas
Jon Douglas

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.

AndroidDevelopersEducation
Mar 28, 2019
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GlideX For Fast Images on Android

Jonathan Peppers
Jonathan Peppers

Unlock the power of Glide with “GlideX”: a simple library to swap-in Glide’s image loading implementation in-place of what Xamarin.Forms ships in the box.

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