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Aug 2, 2019
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Add Contact Features in 4 Lines of Code with Xamarin.Essentials

James Montemagno
James Montemagno

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.

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Jul 12, 2019
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Xamarin.Essentials welcomes tvOS, watchOS, and Tizen

James Montemagno
James Montemagno

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!

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Jun 7, 2019
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Use Maps to Display and Navigate Users with Xamarin.Essentials

James Montemagno
James Montemagno

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.

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Apr 10, 2019
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Sharing Files & Email Attachments with Xamarin.Essentials Preview Features

James Montemagno
James Montemagno

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.

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Feb 25, 2019
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Quick Tip: Debugging Local ASP.NET Core Web APIs on Android Emulators

James Montemagno
James Montemagno

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.

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Feb 19, 2019
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Persisting Settings and Preferences in Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Essentials

James Montemagno
James Montemagno

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.

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Feb 12, 2019
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Easily Check Mobile Device Connectivity with Xamarin.Essentials

James Montemagno
James Montemagno

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. Bet...

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Dec 19, 2018
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Accessing Native Features the Cross-Platform Way with Xamarin.Essentials

James Montemagno
James Montemagno

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 please...

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Dec 4, 2018
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Connect(); 2018 Xamarin Announcements

Joseph Hill
Joseph Hill

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 g...

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