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Xamarin.Essentials welcomes tvOS, watchOS, and Tizen

James Montemagno July 12, 2019 Jul 12, 2019 07/12/19

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!

Use Maps to Display and Navigate Users with Xamarin.Essentials

James Montemagno June 7, 2019 Jun 7, 2019 06/7/19

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.

Sharing Files & Email Attachments with Xamarin.Essentials Preview Features

James Montemagno April 10, 2019 Apr 10, 2019 04/10/19

In the recent release of Xamarin.Essentials (1.1.0) we introduced several new stable features including detect shake, browser customization, and a plethora of platform helpers. The team also added the top requested features: file sharing! It is extremely easy to get started using these new preview features with just a few lines of code.

Xamarin.Essentials Adds Detect Shake, Browser Customization, Color Helpers, and More!

James Montemagno March 18, 2019 Mar 18, 2019 03/18/19

Introducing Xamarin.Essentials 1.1.0! Xamarin.Essentials’ built-in Accelerometer API now gives you ability to detect shake movement, Geolocation API detects mock locations, and the Browser API now supports more customization.

Quick Tip: Debugging Local ASP.NET Core Web APIs on Android Emulators

James Montemagno February 25, 2019 Feb 25, 2019 02/25/19

Debugging your ASP.NET Core Web API backend against you Android emulator should be simple, and with this quick tip you can use Xamarin.Essentials and Kestral to enable local debugging.

Persisting Settings and Preferences in Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Essentials

James Montemagno February 19, 2019 Feb 19, 2019 02/19/19

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.

Easily Check Mobile Device Connectivity with Xamarin.Essentials

James Montemagno February 12, 2019 Feb 12, 2019 02/12/19

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.

Accessing Native Features the Cross-Platform Way with Xamarin.Essentials

James Montemagno December 19, 2018 Dec 19, 2018 12/19/18

Every mobile application requires access to native functionality. When developing native mobile apps with Xamarin, developers are able to integrate deeply into iOS and Android since Xamarin exposes every API directly in C# to access these features. To help streamline and simplify development when needing to add native features to apps we are pleased to introduce Xamarin.Essentials, a new library that abstracts these native APIs into a set of cross-platform APIs. This means that you now have access to over 30 native features from single APIs that can be called directly from your shared business logic.

Connect(); 2018 Xamarin Announcements

Joseph Hill December 4, 2018 Dec 4, 2018 12/4/18

Today, at Microsoft Connect(); 2018, we have several exciting announcements about brand new capabilities and foundational improvements in the Xamarin platform driven by your generous feedback.

Visual Studio developers everywhere will enjoy updated stable releases of Xamarin with Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio 2017 for Mac. We are also giving you the first hands-on preview of Visual Studio 2019, along with Xamarin.Forms 4.0. Below are just a few highlights from today’s announcements:

The Xamarin Show: Exploring Awesome Xamarin & Visual Studio Features

James Montemagno July 5, 2018 Jul 5, 2018 07/5/18

Each week on The Xamarin Show we explore the latest and greatest in Xamarin development by looking at new features built into Visual Studio, build native cross-platform user interfaces with Xamarin.Forms, and access to native APIs with Xamarin.Essentials. I am also joined by Xamarin experts that show off the awesome beautiful libraries and applications they are building with Xamarin. No matter what type of development you are into there is surely something for you over on The Xamarin Show. This week, I wanted to feature a few "Snack Pack" episodes that show off an awesome feature in under 10 minutes!

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Xamarin.Essentials welcomes tvOS, watchOS, and Tizen

Use Maps to Display and Navigate Users with Xamarin.Essentials

Sharing Files & Email Attachments with Xamarin.Essentials Preview Features

Xamarin.Essentials Adds Detect Shake, Browser Customization, Color Helpers, and More!

Quick Tip: Debugging Local ASP.NET Core Web APIs on Android Emulators

Persisting Settings and Preferences in Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Essentials

Easily Check Mobile Device Connectivity with Xamarin.Essentials

Accessing Native Features the Cross-Platform Way with Xamarin.Essentials

Connect(); 2018 Xamarin Announcements

The Xamarin Show: Exploring Awesome Xamarin & Visual Studio Features

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