Issue 124

NEWS

Announcing Xamarin v15.1 (Stable)

This release is now available in the Xamarin updater channels and as part of the April 5th update for Visual Studio 2017.

MFractor is coming to Visual Studio for Mac

I’m very pleased to share with you that MFractor for Visual Studio Mac is on its way and will be more awesome than ever.

Announcing Mono v5.0.0

Generating SIMD accelerated native code for the classes in the Mono.Simdassembly is deprecated in this release, and it will be removed in +2 releases. Users should transition to using the Vector classes, which are part of the official .NET class libraries.

NuGet is now fully integrated into MSBuild

In the past, NuGet packages were managed in two different ways - packages.config and project.json - each with their own sets of advantages and limitations. With Visual Studio 2017, Microsoft has revamped the NuGet package management experience aka PackageReference.

CODE

Launching a mobile app via URI schemes

Sometimes, users inside your app will need access to another app to complete their task. Maybe its calling someone, viewing a webpage or launching Skype. Launching another app is rather easy and is done at the OS level. When you call upon another app you need to use its URI Scheme.

LEADERSHIP

Effective pairing

Wise words:

For an idea to go from your head into the computer it MUST go through someone else's hands

OPEN SOURCE

Mono and GNOME. The long reply (2002)

Some people wonder if we have got a Microsoft investment or contract (because I like this Microsoft technology). The answeris no. But I would take one if they wanted to fund my free software project ;-) Man, I wonder what that would be like!
- Miguel de Icaza

XAMARIN FORMS

Announcing Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4 (Stable)

Xamarin has released a stable version of Xamarin.Forms v2.3.4.224. The major themes of this release are quality and performance. It contains nearly 200 bug fixes and over 50 pull-requests were contributed by the community.

The Xamarin.Forms roadmap

Animating Xamarin Forms progress bars

Don't you just hate boring progress bars? Jim Bennett has the solution!

.NET

Add ILLink to the build - #17825

The Xamarin linker has been merged into .NET Core and is enabled by default to trim non-public unreachable IL and metadata from assemblies. It can be disabled by setting ILLinkTrimAssembly=false.

NUGET OF THE WEEK

Auto generate app icons and splash screens at different resolutions

LogoGen is a tool designed to help quickly convert an SVG logo to the myriad of resolutions required for modern mobile apps, especially when targeting multiple platforms (e.g. when using frameworks like Cordova and Xamarin).

Issue 124 8th April 2017

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