DESIGN
Icons and Design
What makes icons particularly special is perhaps the fact that their meaning can be understood without having to add any text or further details. In this article, I will show you how icons have been one of the first elements used in the first user interfaces, the story behind them, and why they are important to use in today’s screen design.
Designing For User Interfaces: Icons As Visual Elements For Screen Design by Manuela
smashingmagazine.com
BUSINESS & MARKETING
Balancing Speed and Quality
Delivering features fast matters, but can it come at the expense of quality? This is a look at software quality versus new feature velocity, with a particular view on Apple's decision to delay new iOS features to make the overall experience more stable.
What Developers Can Learn from Apple’s iOS Woes by Fred Stevens-Smith
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TOOLS
How To Localise Your Xamarin.Forms Apps
Localising your app into different languages can have a huge impact on how your app gets ranked in the stores. In this article Matthew Robbins, walks through the process of localising an app and then shows how easy it is to do using mFractor.
How To Localise Your Xamarin.Forms Apps by Matthew Robbins
mfractor.com
XAMARIN FORMS
Xamarin Forms with Caliburn Micro and AutoFac
There are lots of different MVVM Frameworks and IOC containers out there. In this blog post, Alex walks through setting up Caliburn Micro and AutoFac for your Xamarin.FormsApp.
Xamarin Forms with Caliburn Micro and AutoFac by Pshul
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Give your Forms apps a splash of Material Design
Alex Dunn has updated his Material Design form elements for Xamarin.Forms. If you haven't looked into these and want to incorporate some Material Design inspiration into your apps, it might be a good time to check these out.
Xamarin.Controls – Material Form Control Updates by Alex Dunn
alexdunn.org
Gotta show that Notch some love
Joe Meyer talks about a nice little platform specific in iOS which allows you to correctly handle the new Safe Areas for iOS devices.
XAMAWIN – ADD SAFE AREA TO YOUR IPHONE X APPS IN XAMARIN.FORMS by Joe Meyer
iwritecodesometimes.net
.NET
What's your favourite new C# Features
Michael Ridland has done the rounds at the office and asked everyone what their most loved new C# features are. Here are the results.
XAM’s Favourite (New) C# Features by Michael Ridland
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PODCASTS & VIDEOS
Azure Functions for Mobile Apps with Laurent Bugnion
msdn.comThis week, James is joined yet again by friend of the show Laurent Bugnion, who shows us how Azure Functions (serverless programming) can be used to create a backend for your Xamarin applications. We'll see a super simple project first and then move on to a more "real life" application.
Multi Targetting
This week on Merge Conflict James and Frank talk Multi-Targeting. What is it? Why would you use it? Is it going to be painful? These are all questions answered by the show.
Merge Conflict 85: All I Want To Do Is Multi-Target
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