Issue 147

CODE

Ooui.Wasm - .NET in the browser

Frank Krueger has just blown everyone's mind (again).

Ooui.Wasm - .NET in the browser by Frank Krueger

Test and Switch

An interesting discussion of the approach being looked at for project Caboodle for calling platform specific code. Bait 'n' Switch was so "last generation"... we now have netStandard Multitargeting and Test 'n' Switch.

Test and Switch: testable yet high performance cross-platform libraries by Daniel Cazzulino

DESIGN

A Comprehensive Guide To Wireframing And Prototyping

Everything you wanted to know about Wireframing and Prototyping...

A Comprehensive Guide To Wireframing And Prototyping by

Top 8 UI Design Trends for Mobile Apps in 2018

Technology refuses to stand still, and when it comes to design trends, you will never find a dull moment. UI trends for mobile apps keep evolving to keep pace with the demands of the industry’s millions of users.

Top 8 UI Design Trends for Mobile Apps in 2018 by Henny Kel

DEVOPS

Getting the VSTS Hosted Mac Agent to restore from your custom NuGet sources

Ryan Davis has been getting busy with App Center. He recently did a great talk (slides available here), but one of the challenges he faced was restoring nugets from a custom nuget source. This article explains his solution..

Getting the VSTS Hosted Mac Agent to restore from your custom NuGet sources by Ryan Davis

Secure App Builds with AppCenter

AppCenter is a wonderful thing that you should be using, but sometimes you have some secret things you want to include (like your keys). In this article, Dan Siegel introduces Mobile.BuildTools which helps simplify the problem.

Secure App Builds with AppCenter by Dan-Siegel

TOOLS

Using Code Snippets In Visual Studio Mac

Write less boilerplate code with your own customised code snippets in Visual Studio Mac. As software developers, it's inevitable that we'll end up writing repetitive, boilerplate code that's necessary for our applications to function. Matthew Robbins is here to help!

Using Code Snippets In Visual Studio Mac by Matthew Robbins

IOS

Zero to Hero with the Apple App Store

Getting your app up on the App Store is a scary, crazy proposition. This two-part article helps cover off everything you need to know to go from Zero to Hero

How to Submit An App to Apple: From No Account to App Store – Part 1 by Rony Rozen

XAMARIN FORMS

Native Facebook Login Button in Xamarin.Forms

Using the Facebook SDK for Xamarin.Forms.

Using Native Facebook Login Button in Xamarin.Forms by evsky

Mar 8 Custom Xamarin Forms Tabs

Chris Lamont was frustrated by the inflexibility of the native tabs. Setting colors, sizes or images of certain components inside the tab layout seemed to be restricted. So he did what any good dev would do, and wrote his own. And this is his gift to you!

Mar 8 Custom Xamarin Forms Tabs by Chris Lamont

Custom Fonts with Xamarin.Forms Revisited

Gerald Versluis has updated his post on using custom fonts in iOS and Android for Forms Projects. If you haven't seen this before and need to set custom fonts, this is for you.

Custom Fonts with Xamarin.Forms Revisited by Gerald

Use SkiaSharp to convert SVG to Xamarin.Forms ImageSource

To work with images in an app project could be a hell while you need a lot of different resolution of every image. But what if we could use vector based images to create an image in the right solution? Xamarin.Forms has no support for that out of the box. But it possible to do with SkiaSharp.

Use SkiaSharp to convert SVG to Xamarin.Forms ImageSource by Daniel Hindrikes

Integrating Bot Framework (the right way)

You can integrate the Bot Framework into your app super easy using a Web View, but that's for the weak! You should be using Direct Line channel as Wilson explains

Integrando Bot Framework con Xamarin.Forms - Parte 1 by Wilson Vargas

Functional ViewModels in Xamarin.Forms (Revision 3)

Adam Pedley has been busy thinking about View Models and State and writing down his thoughts. This is the 3rd revision in his attempt to create a more functional ViewModel. Definitely interesting food for thought.

Functional ViewModels in Xamarin.Forms (Revision 3) by Adam Pedley

FlexButton: A super flexible button control for Xamarin.Forms

The default button implementation in Xamarin Forms has some limitations. Here is an upgrade that supercharges it up somewhat.

FlexButton: A super flexible button control for Xamarin.Forms by Robin-Manuel Thiel

REACTIVEUI

MVVM Pattern with ReactiveUI and Xamarin.Forms

Building a Cross-Platform MVVM app with Xamarin.Forms and ReactiveUI.

MVVM Pattern with ReactiveUI and Xamarin.Forms by Doumer

AZURE

Geospatial Queries with CosmosDB

The SQL API in Cosmos (formerly known as DocumentDB) has, built-in, a geospatial engine where it can determine things like how far apart 2 points in space are from each other ... or whether a point exists within a polygon ... or whether a line string intersects a polygon!

Geospatial Queries with CosmosDB by Matthew Soucoup

AI

Face Detection with Cognitive Services

Cognitive Services provide some amazing features, including Face Detection. In this blog post, Juliano walks through setting and up and using Cognitive Services with a Xamarin.Forms app.

Microsoft Cognitive Services – Face Detect com Xamarin.Forms by Juliano Custódio

RELEASES

Xamarin.Forms MarkdownTextView

Alex Dunn has nuget-ised his Markdown Label / TextView to your Xamarin applications including Xamarin Native and Xamarin Forms.

Xamarin.Forms MarkdownTextView NuGet Announcement! by Alex Dunn

Xamarin Joins docs.microsoft.com

Xamarin docs are now live on docs.microsoft.com/xamarin!

Xamarin Joins docs.microsoft.com by Craig Dunn

Issue 147 16th March 2018