{"id":18625,"date":"2015-05-15T00:56:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T04:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.xamarin.com\/?p=18625"},"modified":"2015-05-15T00:56:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T04:56:31","slug":"community-contributions-you-wont-want-to-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/community-contributions-you-wont-want-to-miss\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Contributions You Won&#8217;t Want to Miss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tXamarin developers not only love building amazing mobile apps in C#, they also love helping the developer community at large. Whether through building great open-source libraries, components, and plugins or sharing their experience in forums, blog posts, and podcasts, our community consistently steps up to make development with Xamarin a pleasure. The links below will take you to some of our favorite content from our community over the past few weeks.<\/p>\n<p><b>Podcasts<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/xamarin-podcast\/\">Xamarin Podcast<\/a> \u2013 Pierce Boggan &amp; Mike James<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gregshackles.com\/25-episodes-of-gone-mobile\/\">Gone Mobile<\/a> \u2013 Greg Shackles &amp; Jon Dick<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Great Community Posts<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arteksoftware.com\/bdd-tests-with-xamarin-uitest-and-specflow\/\">BDD Tests with Xamarin.UITest and SpecFlow<\/a> \u2013 Rob Gibbens<\/li>\n<li>Taming the Android Activity, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.adamkemp.com\/2015\/04\/taming-android-activity-part-1.html\">Part 1<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.adamkemp.com\/2015\/05\/taming-android-activity-part-2.html\">Part 2<\/a> \u2013 Adam Kemp<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mattpasco.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/18\/xamarin-the-internet-of-things\/\">Xamarin + The Internet of Things<\/a> \u2013 Matt Pasco<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Tools &amp; Frameworks<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/codemilltech.com\/akavache-is-aka-awesome\/?utm_source=Xamarin+Weekly+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=132820e355-Issue_0395_7_2015&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_07f5b54b81-132820e355-266901469\">Akavache is AKA Awesome<\/a> \u2013 Matthew Soucoup<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelridland.com\/xamarin\/freshmvvm-mvvm-framework-designed-xamarin-forms\/\">FreshMvvm<\/a> \u2013 Michael Ridland<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twilio.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/passwordless-sms-authentication-using-xamarin.html\">Passwordless SMS Authentication with Twilio &amp; Xamarin<\/a> \u2013 Brent Schooley<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kloud.com.au\/2015\/05\/12\/xamarin-plugins\/\">Plugins for Xamarin<\/a> \u2013 Mark Trinder<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/magicaldebugging.com\/signalr-xamarin\/\">SignalR + Xamarin<\/a> \u2013 Nitzan Zada<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Xamarin.Forms<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redbitdev.com\/cross-platform-animations-using-xamarin-forms\/?utm_source=Xamarin+Weekly+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=132820e355-Issue_0395_7_2015&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_07f5b54b81-132820e355-266901469\">Cross-Platform Animations with Xamarin.Forms<\/a> \u2013 Mark Arteaga<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.verslu.is\/xamarin\/finding-nemo-implementing-xamarin-forms-searchbar\/\">Finding Nemo: Implementing Xamarin.Forms SearchBar<\/a> \u2013 Gerald Versluis<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wintellect.com\/devcenter\/jprosise\/supercharging-xamarin-forms-with-custom-renderers-part-1\">Supercharging Xamarin Forms with Custom Renderers<\/a> \u2013 Jeff Prosise<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.syntaxismyui.com\/xamarin-forms-in-anger\/\">Xamarin.Forms In Anger<\/a> \u2013 Adam Wolf<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to these developers for sharing their knowledge and insight with the rest of the Xamarin community! If you have an article or blog post about developing with Xamarin that you\u2019d like to share, please let us know by tweeting at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xamarinhq\">@XamarinHQ<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xamarin developers not only love building amazing mobile apps in C#, they also love helping the developer community at large. Whether through building great open-source libraries, components, and plugins or sharing their experience in forums, blog posts, and podcasts, our community consistently steps up to make development with Xamarin a pleasure. 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