A high-level look at some of the more interesting features of the newest Apple mobile OS that can trip up C# developers making apps for it.
- By Wallace McClure
- 11/19/2015
Sometimes you need to make platform-specific calls. That's where DependencyService comes in handy.
- By Wallace McClure
- 09/16/2015
It's now easier than ever to create polished Android experiences. Greg Shackles shows how using Google's new Material Design style.
- By Greg Shackles
- 08/20/2015
The ListView in Xamarin.Forms has a lot of options, and the ability to use a custom cell is one of the more useful features.
- By Wallace McClure
- 07/24/2015
Xamarin Forms makes the hard work of navigation in apps from device to device a much simpler developer proposition. Here's what I've learned so far.
- By Wallace McClure
- 06/24/2015
Learn how to get started writing apps for your wrist!
- By Greg Shackles
- 06/02/2015
Display data to a user with Xamarin.iOS and this nifty class.
- By Wallace McClure
- 04/20/2015
Microsoft has been running full steam ahead with its "open" development process. So what does it mean to those developing across disparate platforms? Scott Hanselman explains.
- By Wallace McClure
- 03/31/2015
Xamarin.Forms gives you the gift of XAML if you're looking to take the short route to building mobile interfaces.
- By Wallace McClure
- 03/05/2015
Xamarin's development lead offers insights into the Android 5 Lollipop update and how the speed with which Android releases spin out affects their own releases.
- By Wallace McClure
- 02/09/2015
Android 5 Lollipop has a few new features -- including some UI and performance improvements -- that can now be incorporated into your apps. Here's how to work with the update.
- By Wallace McClure
- 01/29/2015
Even Apple devices aren't immune to the dreaded OS fragmentation problem. Thankfully, Xamarin has a solution, and Wally looks into it this month.
- By Wallace McClure
- 01/06/2015
Did you know you can combine C#, F#, Visual Basic, Razor, HTML and JavaScript within a single app?
- By Greg Shackles
- 12/01/2014
The Xamarin tool ecosystem is gaining popularity, as more developers continue to build tools with mobility in mind. Here's how to use them in your projects.
- By Wallace McClure
- 10/23/2014
Lots of decisions go into creating cross-platform apps. Without Xamarin.Forms, the decision process is almost too unwieldy. Here's how it can simplify your mobile development.
- By Wallace McClure
- 09/30/2014
Developers tell us why they use it and what benefit they derive from the tooling, and Xamarin developer Craig Dunn goes over the decisionmaking process when choosing between Xamarin.Forms, Xamarin.iOS or Xamarin.Android.
- By Wallace McClure
- 09/29/2014
Context is king, and your app can easily create hyper-local experiences with iBeacons!
- By Greg Shackles
- 09/04/2014
How to use Xamarin.Auth, Xamarin.Social, and the Facebook SDK for Android to interact with Facebook within a Xamarin.Android application.
- By Wallace McClure
- 07/29/2014
Navigation in mobile devices is an important consideration. If a user isn't able to navigate an app, he might quickly abandon it. Learn the navigation principles of Android to keep this from happening to you.
- By Wallace McClure
- 06/28/2014
Learn how to leverage the powerful resource system of Android to support a variety of Android devices and languages.
- By Greg Shackles
- 05/28/2014
Connect to Twitter from a mobile application using OAuth with the Xamarin.Auth library, along with Joe Mayo's LINQ To Twitter library.
- By Wallace McClure
- 04/25/2014
Portable Class Libraries create a single DLL that can be used across platforms, making code sharing easier. Learn how to use them by building a weather app with a portable core.
- By Greg Shackles
- 02/21/2014
Wally walks you through the two controls you can use to easily navigate your iOS apps.
- By Wallace McClure
- 01/24/2014
Apple's latest mobile operating system is chock full of developer goodies. Learn about some of the best ones, and how to build them with C# and Xamarin.
- By Wallace McClure
- 12/17/2013
SignalR is well-known by .NET developers as a way to handle communications. Find out what it can do in your iOS and Android apps, too.
- By Greg Shackles
- 11/26/2013