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Try New Gradients & Brushes with Xamarin.Forms 4.8
August 7th, 2020 Today marks the release of Xamarin.Forms 4.8. With a collection of features and quality improvements, Xamarin.Forms will give you even more opportunities to build colorful, interactive cross-platform applications. Let us take a dive into all of the new features coming to you in Xamarin.Forms! Gradients and Brushes Xamarin.Forms is releasing experimental support for Gradients and Brushes.
Exposure Notification API Support for Xamarin Apps
May 6th, 2020 Last month, Apple and Google announced plans for creating Exposure Notification APIs. By leveraging Bluetooth Low Energy, this help developers implement contact tracing for both iOS and Android. Our team has been tracking the releases of these APIs to ready them for Xamarin developers.
The Cognitive Services + Xamarin Combo Challenge!
April 20th, 2020 Summer is almost here! (Well, for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere anyway.) And while summer usually means it is time to travel and see the world, most of us are stuck inside right now. However, not to worry – our good friend Gerald Versluis has a way to, not only help pass the time, it will also help explore you the world once you can go outside. Additionally, you can get some cool Xamarin swag along the way.
Sync Mobile Apps with the Cloud via Change Tracking API
April 10th, 2020 If you are creating a mobile app that will work sending data back and forth from the cloud (I guess that 99% of the apps fall into this use case), you will have at some point the need to sync data between the app and the cloud itself.
Image Classification with TensorFlow Lite & Azure Services
March 27th, 2020 This is a guest blog by Daniel Hindrikes. Daniel is a Microsoft MVP, Speaker, and Xamarin + Cloud Solution Architect at tretton37. Image Classification allows our Xamarin apps to recognize objects in a photo. Being able to take a photo and recognize its contents is becoming more and more common. We experience it in our banking apps when making a mobile deposit, in our photo apps when adding filters, and in our HotDog apps to determine whether or not our meal is a hotdog.
.NET Conf: Focus On Xamarin is Next Week!
March 17th, 2020 We are just one week away from the largest Xamarin digital event of the year, .NET Conf: Focus on Xamarin! It all starts at 8 AM PT, 16:00 UTC, Monday, March 23rd with a stellar keynote from Amanda Silver, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Program Manager, along side Xamarin Program Managers Maddy Leger and David Ortinau. Join us on live on the .NET Conf website, and stay with us the entire day for great content.
Binding iOS Swift Libraries
February 28th, 2020 The iOS platform, along with its native languages and tooling, is constantly evolving. There are plenty of 3rd-party libraries that have been developed using the latest offerings. Maximizing code and component reuse is one of the key goals of cross-platform development. The ability to reuse components built with Swift has become increasingly important to Xamarin developers as their popularity continues to grow.
Announcing .NET Conf: Focus on Xamarin
February 14th, 2020 We are pleased to announce .NET Conf: Focus on Xamarin on Monday, March 23rd, 2020 beginning at 08:00 PST! This is a free, one-day livestream event that features speakers from the community and product teams that are working on building native mobile apps with Xamarin technology! What is .NET Conf: Focus on Xamarin? This “Focused” series is a branch off of the original .NET Conf event.
Surface Duo and Surface Neo with Xamarin.Forms Preview
February 11th, 2020 Today we are announcing the preview availability of our cross-platform dual-screen support for the Surface Duo and Surface Neo, two new and amazing devices coming from the Surface team. Previously, we debuted Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.Forms support for the SDK for Surface Duo. Now that the Windows team has unveiled support for the Surface Neo, we are ready to preview our new dual-screen support library for Xamarin.Forms.
Xamarin Hot Restart - Test your app changes today!
September 23rd, 2019 Today at .NET Conf 2019, we announced Xamarin Hot Restart which enables you to test changes made to your app, including multi-file code edits, resources, and references, using a much faster build and deploy cycle. XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms already provides fast iteration on XAML UIs by enabling you to see changes applied live in your running application. But what about other types of code and project edits?
Xamarin.Forms 4.0 Feature Preview: An Entirely New Point of (Collection)View |
As part of the upcoming Xamarin.Forms 4.0 release, we are implementing the all new CollectionView control. The CollectionView is intended to be a successor to the ListView, improving upon its design by reducing technical complexity and allowing for more flexibility of layout and function. But we’re not stopping there! Along with this also comes the long-awaited CarouselView .
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