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October 20th, 2014

Xamarin.Forms Book Preview Edition Available Now

Craig Dunn

Principal SW Engineer

The Petzold engine has been churning through the Xamarin.Forms API, and we’re pleased to announce that the first preview edition of Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms is now available. It was distributed in print to all Xamarin Evolve 2014 attendees last week and is now available as a free download in a number of formats:

PDF from Microsoft Virtual Academy
Kindle edition from Amazon
Google Play Books for Android
Apple iBook Store for iOS and Mac

The six chapters available in the preview edition cover the history of Xamarin.Forms, solution structure, the basics of the view system and building your first Xamarin.Forms app. The extensive samples are also available for download from GitHub.

Charles also presented two talks at Evolve: XAML for Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Forms is Cooler Than You Think, both of which will be available shortly as videos of the sessions are published at evolve.xamarin.com.

Work continues on both Xamarin.Forms and the book!

Author

Craig Dunn

Principal SW Engineer

Craig works on the Surface Duo Developer Experience team, where he enjoys writing cross-platform code for Android using a variety of tools including the web, React Native, Flutter, Unity, and Xamarin.