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Xamarin.Forms 5.0 is Here!

January 7, 2021 Jan 7, 2021 01/7/21

David Ortinau

Xamarin.Forms 5 is here, delivering hundreds of quality improvements and brings to stable release new features including App Themes, Brushes, CarouselView, RadioButton, Shapes and Paths, and SwipeView.

Xamarin Community Toolkit Hacktoberfest 2020 Recap

November 11, 2020 Nov 11, 2020 11/11/20

Gerald Versluis

It has been hard to miss, for the past month Hacktoberfest was upon us again. As announced in our previous blogpost, the Xamarin Community Toolkit participated as well, here is a little summary of how we did.

Join Hacktoberfest at the Xamarin Community Toolkit

October 2, 2020 Oct 2, 2020 10/2/20

Gerald Versluis

Code for swag or from your love for Xamarin in this year's Hacktoberfest! Here are the guidelines to get you started. Be sure to tag your pull requests with the "Hacktoberfest" label to be considered for a reward.

Xamarin.Forms 5 Preview: Advanced UI Controls for Beautiful Apps

September 29, 2020 Sep 29, 2020 09/29/20

David Ortinau

Xamarin.Forms 5 brings to stable release features that you have seen in preview over the latest several 4.x releases. This includes solid and gradient Brushes, CarouselView, drag-and-drop, RadioButton, Shapes, and SwipeView. These new features inject new creative potential for your application designs to create beautiful, interactive ...

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.

Build Xamarin.iOS apps using iOS 14 and Xcode 12

September 21, 2020 Sep 21, 2020 09/21/20

Whitney Schmidt

Support for iOS 14 and Xcode 12 to accompany Apple’s Xcode 12 GM release was just announced! Now, build your Xamarin.iOS (and Xamarin.Forms for iOS) apps with Xcode 12 GM and submit your iOS 14, tvOS 14 or watchOS 7 apps to the Apple App Store.

Xamarin.Forms Shell Quick Tip – Modal Navigation

September 4, 2020 Sep 4, 2020 09/4/20

James Montemagno

Control exactly how your pages are displayed when navigating leveraging the PresentationMode built into Xamarin.Forms Shell to display modal dialogs animated or not!

Xamarin Podcast: Drawing, Visual Studio 2019, Virtual Meetups & More!

August 24, 2020 Aug 24, 2020 08/24/20

Matt Soucoup

In this month's podcast episode, James and Matt explore drawing with Xamarin.Forms, discuss latest new releases of Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio for Mac, as well as how to get your virtual meetup rolling with the .NET Foundation.

A Dev Story: College Diary with Xamarin.Forms by Theodora Tataru

August 12, 2020 Aug 12, 2020 08/12/20

Theodora Tataru

Guest Blog: Theodora Tataru shares her developer story of finding Xamarin and building out her new app, College Diary.

Xamarin.Forms 4.8 – Gradients & Brushes, Drag & Drop, and More!

August 7, 2020 Aug 7, 2020 08/7/20

Jake Kirsch

Check out the latest release of Xamarin.Forms 4.8 that introduces gradients, brushes, drag & drop, and so much more! Head inside for all of the release details.