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GlideX For Fast Images on Android

March 28, 2019 Mar 28, 2019 03/28/19

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.

Beautiful Material Design for Android & iOS

March 7, 2019 Mar 7, 2019 03/7/19

David Ortinau

Boost productivity with the new Xamarin.Forms 3.6 release and the first iteration of Visual with a suite of Material design components for Android and iOS.

Xamarin.Forms 3.6: Visual Has Materialized

March 6, 2019 Mar 6, 2019 03/6/19

Paul DiPietro

Announcing the release of Xamarin.Forms 3.6 - With Visual, you can now implement a Material look-and-feel on supported controls in your iOS apps.

View PDF Files within Your Xamarin.Forms Apps Using the Syncfusion PDF Viewer

February 28, 2019 Feb 28, 2019 02/28/19

Suresh Mohan

View PDF files within your Xamarin.Forms apps using the Syncfusion PDF Viewer control. Find the runnable demo of this blog in this GitHub repository.

Complex UI with FastGrid for Xamarin.Forms

January 30, 2019 Jan 30, 2019 01/30/19

Slava Chernikoff

In this guest blog Slava and team show you how to use FastGrid for complex Xamrin.Forms user interfaces to create a great native experience and how they use it as a customizable white box component.

Android’s D8 dexer and R8 shrinker

January 28, 2019 Jan 28, 2019 01/28/19

Jonathan Peppers

Learn more about Xamarin.Android’s D8 and R8 integration and deep dive on how R8 is being developed for Xamarin.Android and D8 as the next-generation DEX compiler to speed up and shrink Android apps.

Hackathon Superweapon: F# and Fabulous

January 10, 2019 Jan 10, 2019 01/10/19

Larry O'Brien

Let me introduce you to F# Functional App Development using Xamarin.Forms with the Fabulous project, which brings the Elmish Model-View-Update (MVU) architecture to Xamarin. It is a great way for F# developers to rapidly build mobile applications as you will see in this blog post.

The Future of Mobile Development: Xamarin.Forms 4.0 Preview

December 5, 2018 Dec 5, 2018 12/5/18

David Ortinau

Yesterday at Microsoft Connect(); 2018 we announced our plans for Xamarin.Forms 4.0 and shared a public preview. Let's now take a deeper look at the big changes, starting with Xamarin.Forms Shell, and then touch some of the other highlights.

Connect(); 2018 Xamarin Announcements

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

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 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:

Xamarin.Forms 3.4.0: Say Hello to ImageButton

November 15, 2018 Nov 15, 2018 11/15/18

Paul DiPietro

As part of our long-term goal to have more frequent releases, we’re pleased to announce the release of Xamarin.Forms 3.4.0. As always, this release contains even more bug fixes and most notably, another new highly requested feature, an ImageButton!

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