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Real-World Xamarin Developer Problems (and how to solve them!)
Mobile developers need to consider various aspects when developing the perfect app. This whitepaper delves deep in addressing popular roadblocks, presents a breakdown of those challenges and gives you tips and tricks on data management, cloud integration, page organization, navigation, visualization and more. Get insights on what to consider when developing for mobile. Start reading!
telerik.com
NEWS
Run a meetup? Are you looking for presenters?
I'm going to be dialling into meetups all around the globe, delivering presentations on reactive programming until I'm either sick of the topic or blue in the face. Already booked for India, Scotland, Houston & Chicago. Do you run a meetup or would you like to have me present at yours? Fill in the form.
reactiveui.net
Big changes incoming to the NuGet ecosystem to improve security
See also https://blog.nuget.org/20170914/NuGet-Package-Signing.html for more details.
github.com
Workbooks & Inspector 1.3 Released
Massive release by the workbooks team; keep an eye on this space eh. As wouldn't it be pretty rad if you could launch workbooks by clicking on a link in your web-browser. No downloads required.
xamarin.com
The Xamarin Podcast - Episode 47
This week on the Xamarin Podcast - Android Oreo Support, Xamarin Live Player Preview 2, New iOS 11 Previews, and more!
xamarinpodcast.com
CODE
Caliburn.Micro 3.1.0 released
A small housekeeping release in part to get ready for upcoming work.
caliburnmicro.com
TOOLS
Convert Json to C# (and More) with quicktype
How often do you run into the situation where you are reading data from a json file or hitting a RESTful endpoint and pulling down a huge json file that you then need to deserialize? I bet pretty often as I know I do all the time. Visual Studio has the option to paste Json as classes but it doesn't handle heterogeneous data correctly. Quicktype does.
montemagno.com
MAC
The moving parts of Xamarin.Mac
When a developer hits “Run” on a Xamarin.Mac application, a large number of moving parts engage to provide the “magic” necessary to produce a final application. Here Chris Hamons provides a 10,000 foot view of the process to provide you with a rough idea of the lay of the land.
medium.com
XAMARIN FORMS
Xamarin.Forms Platform implementation for the Unity Game Engine
Anything that uses the Reactive Extensions get's a giant thumbs up from me.
github.com
Tips for beating the learning curve
As a first-time user learning any new technology or pattern, there’s always a curve. Wouldn't it be handy if there was a hitchhikers guide for Xamarin Forms? There now is.
xamarin.com
NUGET OF THE WEEK
MSBuild Binary and Structured Log Viewer
This isn't a NuGet package but it definitely is the tool of the week. This application and feature introduced in MSBuild 15.3 is now my goto weapons of choice for debugging builds.
msbuildlog.com