Issue 291

KYM PHILLPOTTS

Happy 2021 everyone!

We hope that everyone has had a bit of a break over the New Year and we are back for 2021. It's going to be an exciting year, with Xamarin.Forms 5.0 being released and the road to Maui.

All the best, and thanks for joining us again for another year.

❤

Kym

NEWS

Xamarin.Forms 5.0 is Here!

Say hello to the stable release of Xamarin.Forms, version 5.0. This major release delivers hundreds of quality improvements and brings to stable release new features including App Themes, Brushes, CarouselView, RadioButton, Shapes and Paths, and SwipeView.

Xamarin.Forms 5.0 is Here! by David Ortinau

BUSINESS & MARKETING

Asking for app reviews with 1 line of code!

James shows us how to request App Reviews using Xamarin.Essentials with just a single line of code.

Asking for app reviews really works! It just takes 1 line of code! by James Montemagno

DEVOPS

Xamarin Pipeline Demo

Demo and explanation on how to do several common tasks for Xamarin.Forms Android in an Azure DevOps pipeline on a Microsoft-hosted agent. Tasks include: build-based version, APK signing, publishing artifacts, unit tests, and UI tests.

Xamarin Pipeline Demo by Jacob Egner

ANDROID

How to Debug on a Real Android Device

Debugging allows us to see our app's flow and to find and fix errors. Let’s see how to do this with Xamarin on an Android device.

How Do I Debug on a Real Android Device Using Xamarin for Visual Studio? by Leomaris Reyes

XAMARIN FORMS

Enabling the Fancy iOS Picture In Picture Video Player on Xamarin

Picture In Picture (PIP) was introduced years ago in iOS 9, but it was only available for iPads. It was brought to iPhones recently in iOS 14, so Sameer implement it in his app.

Enabling the Fancy iOS Picture In Picture Video Player on Xamarin by Saamer Mansoor

Embedding a JavaScript Interpreter Into Xamarin Apps With Jint

By integrating Jint, we can add JavaScript support into our Xamarin.Forms apps. With an embedded JavaScript interpreter, we can write parts of our apps logic in JavaScript and through data and implement a "lite" form of code push.

Embedding a JavaScript Interpreter Into Xamarin Apps With Jint by Matthew Robbins

Xamarin Essentials: Features, Advantages and Benefits

Xamarin Essentials adds all kinds of useful APIs in a single NuGet package. Let's learn the basics of Xamarin essentials as we take a look!

Xamarin Essentials: Features, Advantages and Benefits by Leomaris Reyes

Christmas Shopping UI in Xamarin Forms

Here is another great Xamarin.Forms UI Challenge by Leomaris with a cool Christmas themed layout.

Replicating Christmas Shopping UI in Xamarin Forms by Leomaris Reyes

Popups using Rg.Plugins.Popup

Allesandro talks about how to use Rg.Plugins.Popup to create customizable popups for Xamarin.Forms, including awaiting results.

Create a popup using Rg.Plugins.Popup and get a return value in Xamarin Forms by Alessandro Caliaro

PODCASTS & VIDEOS

Xamarin.Forms 5 LAUNCH PARTY!!!!!!

Join David Ortinau, Maddy Leger, and some of the Xamarin.Forms engineering team while we celebrate launching Xamarin.Forms 5.0, our favorite release yet!!!

Xamarin Community Standup - Xamarin.Forms 5 LAUNCH PARTY!!!!!! by Xamarin Developers