Issue 148

GETTING STARTED

Most common mistakes beginners make in Xamarin.Forms

This blog post highlights some of the common issues and mistakes people make when first taking on Xamarin.Forms.

Most common mistakes beginners make in Xamarin.Forms by Evgeny Zborovsky

DESIGN

Push Notification Options for Mobile Apps

What is the best route to take when implementing push notifications in your mobile applications? Ask James...

Push Notification Options for Mobile Apps by James Montemagno

TOOLS

Automatically convert PCL to .NET Standard 2.0

Converting your PCL's to .NET Standard is so hot right now! Here is an extension that may help you.

Automatically converting PCL to .NET Standard 2.0 project by [vgeny Zborovsky

IOS

iOS Pill Button (with Storyboard Support)

Here’s another simple but useful control for Xamarin.iOS – the PillButton. The name describes it pretty well, it’s a button shaped like a pill or capsule and allows for managing the border color within your storyboard files by exposing an outlet for the color.

Xamarin.Tip – iOS Pill Button (with Storyboard Support) by Alex Dunn

Bindable iOS UIRefreshControl

Alex Dunn has a tip that has made his life easier – the BindableRefreshControl. The premise is to wrap the BeginRefreshing() and EndRefreshing() calls into a bindable property that can be applied with a one-way binding from a ViewModel.

Xamarin.Tip – Bindable iOS UIRefreshControl by Alex Dunn

Has iOS 11 really affected star ratings?

iOS has recently implemented a native Ratings prompt. Has it affected ratings? Read on, to find out.

Has iOS 11 really affected star ratings? by Christie Mouritz-Beckx

XAMARIN FORMS

glidex.forms

Jonathan Peppers has been doing loads of great work on Android performance and optimizations. He has also released a library called glidex.forms to supercharge your images on Android.

glidex.forms by Jonathan Peppers

AbsoluteLayout in Xamarin Forms Made Simple

XamGirl schools us on the use of AbsoluteLayout!

AbsoluteLayout in Xamarin Forms Made Simple by Charlin Agramonte

Creating a simple but good-looking app tutorial

A lot of apps currently in stores have some sort of walkthrough or tutorial screen that walks you through the basic functionality of an app. Let’s see what kind of things go into making one of those shall we?

Creating a simple but good-looking app tutorial by Steven

How To Migrate PCL and Xamarin.Forms Apps to NETStandard

One of the reasons devs don’t update their (Xamarin.Forms) PCL library projects to .NETStandard 2.0 is that there are a bunch of NuGet packages that still haven’t migrated to it. It turns out, that that’s not a problem at all!

How To Migrate PCL and Xamarin.Forms Apps to NETStandard by Daniel Cazzulino

Debugging into the Xamarin.Forms code base

This is the start of what looks like an excellent series of blog posts about how to debug into framework pieces. This post covers off debugging into Xamarin.Forms source code.

Debugging Xamarin Open Source Frameworks: Xamarin.Forms Part 1 by Jon Goldberger

Renderer to Limit maximum lines of Label

If we want to display some text in our Xamarin.Forms app, chances are high we are going to use the Label control. But what if we want to limit the maximum visible lines you need a renderer... and here it is!

#XfQaD: Limit maximum lines of Label and indicate text truncation by Marco Siccardi

PWA in Xamarin.Forms

Ooui is a framework created by Frank Krueger, that lets you run Xamarin.Forms in a web browser. It actually has two ways of doing this, Ooui.AspNetCore, which is server side, or client side, using Ooui.Wasm.

Create a PWA in Xamarin.Forms with Ooui.Wasm by Adam Pedley

AZURE

Azure Blob Storage with Xamarin Apps

Cloud Storage has become a must-have feature for mobile apps. It gives developers the ability to store large files in the cloud and securely distribute them to all mobile app users. Moving these large files to the cloud also helps reduce the size of the APKs and IPAs significantly.

Add Cloud Storage to Xamarin Apps with Azure Blob Storage by Brandon Minnick

Nifty Xamarin + Azure poster!

You can go ahead and get rid of those posters of Keanu Reeves! Instead print out this poster that shows all the Azure services categorized by use case, with links to the appropriate documentation.

Creating Cloud-Connected Mobile Apps with Xamarin + Azure by Craig Dunn

PODCASTS & VIDEOS

Merge Conflict 89: WebAssembly + Mono == .NET In Your Browser

What is this craziness - .NET apps in the browser. Frank and James talk about a brave new frontier!

Merge Conflict 89: WebAssembly + Mono == .NET In Your Browser by Frank Krueger & James Montemagno

Xamarin Show - Secure Data with CosmosDB for Mobile

This week, James is joined yet again by friend of the show Brandon Minnick to discus how to easily integrate Azure Cosmos DB with Xamarin apps. We discuss the Security, Scalability and API requirements for our Cosmos DB backends, and show how to easily integrate Cosmos DB + Xamarin!

Play Scalable + Secure Data with CosmosDB for Mobile by James Montemagno

RELEASES

Pre-Release: Xamarin.Forms 3 (pre2)

Xamarin.Forms 3.0.0.296286-pre2 is now on NuGet.

Pre-Release: Xamarin.Forms 3.0.0.296286-pre2 by David Ortinau