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The Cognitive Services + Xamarin Combo Challenge!

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: It’s a Brand New Decade!

January 17, 2020 Jan 17, 2020 01/17/20

Matt Soucoup

It’s a new decade, and in this inaugural pod of the roaring 20s, James and Matt cover some holidays hacks, and the brand new version of Xamarin.Essentials!

Snppts Community Challenge

November 1, 2019 Nov 1, 2019 11/1/19

James Montemagno

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

October 22, 2019 Oct 22, 2019 10/22/19

Paul DiPietro

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!

CarouselView Challenge Wrap-up

October 4, 2019 Oct 4, 2019 10/4/19

Paul DiPietro

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.

Xamarin.Forms 4.3 Prerelease and the CarouselView Challenge

September 11, 2019 Sep 11, 2019 09/11/19

Paul DiPietro

Today we’re announcing the first prerelease of Xamarin.Forms 4.3 which includes CarouselView’s implementation, based on CollectionView, and can provide unique functionality within your apps. Plus - a new Xamarin challenge!

Join the Xamarin Android Performance and App Size Challenge

August 20, 2019 Aug 20, 2019 08/20/19

Jon Douglas

The Xamarin.Android team has worked hard to delivery amazing features that every Xamarin developer should be using. Now through the end of August, we challenge YOU to give them a try and get rewarded with some awesome Xamarin swag!

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