GETTING STARTED
Saving Grandma’s Recipes With Xamarin.Forms
Matthew Soucoup has posted a spicy little article over at SmashingMagazine full of delicious puns. It's a taster for Xamarin where he builds a scrumptious Recipe app for his Grandma. It's really sweet to see wider exposure for Xamarin.
Saving Grandma’s Recipes With Xamarin.Forms by Matthew Soucoup
CODE
A History of .NET Runtimes
Matt Warren has put together a list of all the .NET runtimes... So many runtimes, so little time. Definitely an interesting read.
A History of .NET Runtimes by Matt Warren
DESIGN
Why does Apple’s 3D Touch fail miserably?
Is 3D touch destined to join the list of "almost" technologies? Interestingly, Apple didn't include 3D touch on all of its new phones. This article probes into the problems and future of 3D touch.
Why does Apple’s 3D Touch fail miserably? by Juan J. Ramirez
TESTING
Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms and Unit Testing with xUnit and Moq
Nick Randolph takes a look at some compatibility issues with the current version of Moq and a quick look at getting started with the next version of Moq.
Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms and Unit Testing with xUnit and Moq (II).aspx) by Nick
TOOLS
More APIs than you can shake a stick at
API.Guru's goal is to create a machine-readable Wikipedia for WEB APIs. It's kind of like programmable web. Lots of API's to discover and If you have an API spec in any format (OpenAPI, Swagger, RAML, WADL, API Blueprint etc) for any public API they want you to list them.
XAMARIN FORMS
Creating a parallax carousel in Xamarin.Forms
Steven Thewissen has created an awesome parallax carousel view along with a blog post that covers the core concepts. A great read that really shows how with a bit of love and attention you can create amazing UI's in Xamarin.Forms
Slide over menus with SlideOverKit
Thiago Bertuzzi has a look at getting started with a great little library called SlideOverKit by FreshMvvm author Micheal Ridland.
NOTE: Post is in Portuguese, but you know what to do if you're an English speaker... just do a google translate ;-)
Defining Colors in XAML
Marcos continues to discuss best practices and guidelines for how he likes to structure his XAML styles and resources.
Xamarin.Forms XAML: Colors by Marcos
Summary of NET Conf 2018 – What's New in Xamarin Forms Part 2
Devlin continues his list of What’s New in Xamarin Forms that I saw from .NET Conf 2018. Personally, I'm looking forward to a more powerful Collection View.
Summary of NET Conf 2018 – What's New in Xamarin Forms Part 2 by Devlin
What would you change about Xamarin.Forms?
Rui Marino jumped onto Twitter and asked the question:
If you could wave a magic wand and change anything – doesn’t matter if it’s possible or not – about #XamarinForms , what would it be? #xamarin #microsoft
Go ahead and post your suggestions/wishes.
Rui Marinho on Twitter by Rui Marinho
AZURE
Sentiment Analysis
Understanding the sentiment of an email or text message can be difficult. Someone may send a message, intending for it to be encouraging, but it may be accidentally interpreted as mean or condescending. Luckily, Microsoft’s Text Analytics Service can help avoid any confusion.
Upgrade Your App with Sentiment Analysis by Brandon Minnick
PODCASTS & VIDEOS
The Xamarin Show - New Xamarin.Android Editor + Designer Features
This week, James is joined by friend of the show Jérémie Laval, developer on the Xamarin.Android team, who shows us all of the new and fancy features of the Xamarin.Android designer and editor.
New Xamarin.Android Editor + Designer Features by James Montemagno
Merge Conflict 118: Undo Architectures
Frank and James answer important questions such as if you should update to macOS Mojave this week and how to handle system updates in general. Our main topic this week is "Micro Frameworks/Libraries" and re-usable code across all of your projects. Should you architect your code for max re-use or should you just shove it into your project and ship code!