Issue 269

KYM PHILLPOTTS

Happy Friday.

This week we have some great design blogs and tools. As always, there are great Xamarin.Forms articles discussing multi-lingual apps and the new shapes components to name just a couple. This week there is also a great post on the Android ADB command and creating bindings.

Have a great weekend, stay safe... and wear a mask.

❤

Kym

CODE

Don’t Judge XAML Based On Lines of Code

For those following the on-going discussion around the future of XAML and specifically the use of XAML in DotNetMaui/Xamarin.Forms, this post is a follow on from two great posts discussing the options that are, or will be, available for Xamarin.

Don’t Judge XAML Based On Lines of Code by Nick

DESIGN

Designed for iPad

Over the last few years, the iPad has transformed significantly from being a large touch screen device to a device that supports multiple inputs and can be used in a variety of situations. It’s changed the way people interact with their apps. But how should you design for iPad apps?

Designed for iPad by Vidit Bhargava

Mobile App Redesign for Developers: GitTrends

Polishing and working with UI/UX design can feel intimidating and like we definitely need a Designer in our team to get out a production-ready app design. In this series, you will be able to learn key tools, resources, and workflow you can use to start building clean and immersive app designs as a Developer.

Mobile App Redesign for Developers: GitTrends by Pujolsluis

Generating beautiful frames for your iOS & Android screenshots instantly

Have you have ever needed to share your app screenshots with other team members, but skipped adding the frame just to save time? Taking a screenshot is as simple as a click, but designing & dealing with image editing tools is definitely not a developer’s forte.

Generating beautiful frames for your iOS & Android screenshots instantly by The First Prototype

DEVOPS

Xamarin DevOps Snippets (aka Pipeline Templates)

Nick Randolph covers some code snippets that use Pipeline Templates in order to setup a Azure DevOps pipeline for your Xamarin application.

Xamarin DevOps Snippets (aka Pipeline Templates) by Nick

TOOLS

10 Visual Studio Files and Layout Productivity Tips

Nowadays most developers are working remotely. Hence the monitor(s) configuration might have changed, and might change frequently. In this context, it does matter to optimize the Visual Studio layout and documents access. Here are some tips.

10 Visual Studio Files and Layout Productivity Tips by Patrick Smacchia

ANDROID

Android Debug Bridge Master Class

ADB, Android Debug Bridge, is a useful command line utility for interacting with Android devices for debugging and diagnostic purposes. Xamarin developers can use ADB to install/uninstall packages, inspect running apps, push and pull files and check error logs. Consider this your master class on the subject.

Android Debug Bridge For Xamarin Developers by Lachlan Gordon

XAMARIN FORMS

Mastering Multilingual in Xamarin.Forms

Charlin Agramont has a guest post on the Microsoft blog talking about Multilingual support, which is one of the most common requirements for mobile apps.

Mastering Multilingual in Xamarin.Forms by Charlin Agramonte

Create scrollable tabs in Xamarin.Forms with CollectionView and CarouselView

When it comes to navigation patterns in mobile apps, the tabbed interface is one of the most popular options. While Xamarin.Forms has the TabbedPage (and Shell) to fulfill that need, it lacks one essential feature: scrollable tabs.

Create scrollable tabs in Xamarin.Forms with CollectionView and CarouselView by Marco Siccardi

Drawing UI with Xamarin.Forms Shapes and Paths

Xamarin.Forms 4.7 introduces drawing controls for Shapes and Paths. These are powerful new cross-platform controls that use the familiar control syntax from UWP and WPF. As well as use the native graphics libraries on each target platform.

Drawing UI with Xamarin.Forms Shapes and Paths by David Ortinau

Taking your apps design to the next level with Xamarin Forms

The difference between a good application and a bad application is usually the quality of your user experience (UX). A good user experience is what separates successful applications from those that have not been successful. That is why it is vital to try to focus our efforts on trying to give our users the greatest and best possible experience.

Taking your apps design to the next level with Xamarin Forms by Luis Matos

Creating a Xamarin Binding Library for iOS And Android

As a Xamarin Developer, there are situations where we want to use a native (Objective C, Swift, Java, Kotlin, etc) library. To do this, we have two options: translate the library code to C# which is good if the code is small but in cases where we want to migrate libraries with a lot of code the best approach is to create a binding library.

Creating a Xamarin Binding Library for iOS And Android (Part. 1) by Rendy Del Rosario

ToDo Sample Application with Telerik UI, MVVMFresh and EntityFrameworkCore

Introducing our Telerik ToDo App: A beautifully designed and highly performant task management application built with Telerik UI for Xamarin controls.

ToDo Sample Application with Xamarin.Forms, Telerik UI, MVVMFresh and Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore by Stefan Nenchev

A Tale Of CollectionView and Garbage Collector

Jean-Marie Alfonsi tells the woeful tale of trying to work out increasing memory consumption in the GitTrends application. He takes a stroll through Garbage Collection, Java Native Interface and the object Nursery. How will the story end?

Gittrends lags: A Tale Of CollectionView and Garbage Collector by Jean-Marie Alfonsi

3 Ways to Consume Apis Rest

Thiago provides a summary of some tips and techniques for communicating and consuming an API.

Note: Post is in Portuguese

O X do Xamarin Forms by Thiago Bertuzzi

DatePicker with placeholder in material design

Sometimes you want the user to be able to select a date within an app. For this scenario, Xamarin.Forms provides the DatePicker Control, which is also beautifully represented in material design. In this post, Sabastian improves on it by including placeholder text explaining what the date is.

NOTE: Post is in German

Xamarin.Forms: DatePicker mit Placeholder im Material-Design by Sebastian Jensen

Xamarin Forms PayUMoney Integration

Learn how to integrate the PayUMoney Payment Gateway with Xamarin.Forms Application.

Xamarin Forms PayUMoney Integration by Logesh Palani

PODCASTS & VIDEOS

Merge Conflict 211 - Failure To Launch

Fit & Finish! That is our topic this week and try to understand what is in Frank's way of shipping his app.

211: Failure To Launch by Merge Conflict

Xamarin.Forms 4.7 - Shapes, Paths, and App Themes!

This week, James is joined by Jacob Kirsch, Program Manager for Xamarin, who walks us through the latest and greatest features that Xamarin.Forms 4.7 introduced. This includes the awesome new drawing API with shapes and paths, app theme support update, and new grid optimizations.

Xamarin.Forms 4.7 - Shapes, Paths, and App Themes! by James Montemagno

RELEASES

Hybrid Blazor apps in the Mobile Blazor Bindings July update

Mobile Blazor Bindings July update! This release adds support for building Hybrid Blazor apps, which contain both native and web UI. Hybrid apps are a composition of native and web UI in a single app.

Hybrid Blazor apps in the Mobile Blazor Bindings July update by Eilon Lipton

Issue 269 24th July 2020