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In this webinar, James Montemagno (Xamarin) and Sam Basu (Progress) demonstrate how to build beautiful native cross-platform apps from a single C# codebase. You get complete native API access on each platform and modern productive tools to build your dream Xamarin apps.
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NEWS
"I am looking for a vendor that can help us build a WPF backend for Xamarin.Forms" - Miguel de Icaza
Samsung releases second preview of Visual Studio Tools for Tizen
Samsung has released the second preview of Visual Studio Tools for Tizen today. Tizen is a Linux-based open source OS running on over 50 million Samsung devices including TVs, wearables, and mobile phones. You can now download the Visual Studio Tools for Tizen and begin building. I already have :)
Introducing #XamarinDiplomado
Free and online mobile application development content for Latin America audiences developed by Xamarin & Microsoft MVPs from Latin America including Esteban Solano, Humberto Jaimes and Enrique.
LEADERSHIP
Public Speaking
Scott Hanselman, Kendra Havens, Maria Naggaga Nakanwagi, Kasey Uhlenhuth and Donovan Brown were recently in the Channel 9 studio to talk about the challenges and rewards of speaking publicly.
PERFORMANCE
Tracking memory leaks In Xamarin with the profiler
Memory leaks can be notoriously hard to track down. While some cases are easy, such as you forgot to unsubscribe from an event, others are far sneakier, and can cost days in tracking them down. In this article, Adam Pedley teaches you how to use the profiler to find and eliminate them.
Profiling Xamarin Forms
Profiling is about finding resource usage that is out of place. Resources can include, network traffic, CPU, GPU, storage and/or memory usage. Because every app can behave differently, there is no set profile on how resource usage should look for your app, only guidelines.
IOS
The future of iOS is 64-bit only: Apple to stop support of 32-bit apps
Ever launch an app on your iPhone and then get a pop-up warning that says the app may slow down your iPhone? (I have old versions of certain apps, so it shows up for me every once in a while.) That warning usually appears when you’re using a 32-bit app.
XAMARIN FORMS
Pre-release: Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4.192-pre2
Xamarin has pushed Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4.192-pre2 to NuGet. To install the pre-release, check the pre-release option in your NuGet package manager.
Creating a reusable styles assembly for Xamarin.Forms
Xamarin.Forms 2.3.1 introduced the MergedWith feature for ResourceDictionary and lets you combine (merge) resource dictionaries. John Miller shows you how you can use this to create a separate assembly that contains styles and other items you might want to reuse across multiple app projects.
REACTIVEUI
Announcing ReactiveUI virtual community standups
Every 2nd Tues of the month, the team and community will get together virtually using either Google Hangouts or Skype for Business. Everyone is invited to participate. We will use this forum to teach the concepts and the thought process behind functional reactive programming/the reactive extensions/reactiveui and share the roadmap/opportunities for community members to get started with open source.
.NET
NuGet package security and trust improvements survey
The NuGet team are looking into improving security features and needs your input.
SECURITY
Certificate and public key pinning with Xamarin
Are you securing the communication between your app and its backend with HTTPS (SSL/TLS)? Fantastic. But how do you make sure the other side is authentic? Read on on how to do this with Xamarin for iOS and Android.
MEETUPS
Dutch Mobile .NET Developers
It's 2017! The Dutch Mobile .NET Developers are kicking of the new year with their first meetup on the 22nd of Feb. Sessions will be on ReactiveUI and VR using Unity3d and C# taught by Stefan who has been working with the ReactiveUI framework for some time now.
NUGET OF THE WEEK
MarcBruins/awesome-xamarin
A curated list of awesome Xamarin iOS and Xamarin Android ports, bindings, tutorials and much more! The list is divided into categories such as Frameworks, Components, Testing and others, open source projects, free and paid services.
WHO'S HIRING/LOOKING
Android developer with ReactiveUI experience required
Speak with https://angel.co/ofir-geller for more information.
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