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Here's what you need to know before you create your first Xamarin application to run on a smartphone or a tablet.
06/07/2018
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By Greg Shackles
New support for styling Xamarin.Forms apps with CSS may be controversial, but Greg Shackles thinks CSS is a powerful (and frequently maligned) solution to the problem of styling native mobile applications. See what he means in this hands-on tutorial.
05/29/2018
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Building cross-platforms applications has never been easier using Microsoft's Xamarin.Forms. In this article Nick introduces v6 of MvvmCross and shows how it can be leveraged to accelerate development and improve the architecture of a Xamarin.Forms application.
05/16/2018
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If you've got a recent version of Visual Studio (Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition, for example) then you can start creating an Android application. Here's what you need to do to get your first project set up.
05/01/2018
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Wally builds an app prototype and in response to user feedback investigates how to play audio sound effects in response to events such as a button press.
03/29/2018
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Our cross-platform C# specialist turns his attention to the iOS side of things only to demonstrate some programming issues associated with the much-hyped device from Apple, including Face ID, the "notch," Safe Areas, Large Titles and more.
01/11/2018
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In an app of any meaningful size, wrapping up common functionality in a composite control reduces the long-term effort needed to craft the app. Learn how to do just that right here.
11/07/2017
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By Daniel Krzyczkowski
Learn how to leverage the open source MVVM ReactiveUI framework, the Observer Design Pattern, ReactiveX and more to make your Xamarin apps more responsive.
10/24/2017
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With new APIs for augmented reality and machine learning -- along with many new and updated features -- the latest iteration of iOS is sure to make Apple mobile developers happy, our resident expert concludes in this hands-on review, complete with code samples.
10/17/2017
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Here’s a look -- with code samples -- at two series of updates that will improve the feature set and, most important, performance of Microsoft’s cross-platform UI solution.
10/10/2017
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By Greg Shackles
From performance improvements to new platforms, here’s a look at what’s coming down the road for Xamarin.Forms developers.
08/10/2017
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Playing around with Apple's Core Image imaging technology, using some simple C# code to perform facial recognition and apply filters to photos.
07/26/2017
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Wally shows you how to use Xamarin.iOS to create a pedometer app for a Fitbit that employs the CoreMotion Framework.
06/20/2017
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Consuming services is something every application needs to do. In this article, Nick demonstrates how to document a REST service using Swagger in order to make it easy to consume from a Universal Windows Application.
06/12/2017
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By Greg Shackles
Learn how Mobile Center helps you easily develop, build, test, distribute, and monitor your mobile apps.
05/09/2017
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Your Xamarin Forms App needs one more little tweak, and that's to make it device-specific, so users don't freak out. Unlike the Apple tweak, the Android tweak takes a bit of work.
02/08/2017
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It's relatively simple to make use of the multi-window mode now that Xamarin supports it. Here's how.
12/14/2016
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Last time, I created the app. This time, I take care of a few annoying but important issues with it, especially in the area of the user's experience with application connectivity.
12/01/2016
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With Apple's update to its phone OS, we look at the support that Xamarin has for it by building a simple speech app.
11/07/2016
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The goal of one tool for every platform isn't quite a reality yet, but you can get close. Here's what you can accomplish so far with Xamarin tools.
09/20/2016
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By Greg Shackles
Learn how Xamarin.Forms Behaviors and Effects make it easy to customize your apps in ways you can reuse them across all of your apps.
08/03/2016
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The Universal Windows Platform comes with rich media capabilities. In this article Nick explores how to customize and extend the media playback experience using the Player Framework.
07/27/2016