Issue 177

GETTING STARTED

Saving Grandma’s Recipes With Xamarin.Forms

Matthew Soucoup has posted a spicy little article over at SmashingMagazine full of delicious puns. It's a taster for Xamarin where he builds a scrumptious Recipe app for his Grandma. It's really sweet to see wider exposure for Xamarin.

Saving Grandma’s Recipes With Xamarin.Forms by Matthew Soucoup

CODE

A History of .NET Runtimes

Matt Warren has put together a list of all the .NET runtimes... So many runtimes, so little time. Definitely an interesting read.

A History of .NET Runtimes by Matt Warren

DESIGN

Why does Apple’s 3D Touch fail miserably?

Is 3D touch destined to join the list of "almost" technologies? Interestingly, Apple didn't include 3D touch on all of its new phones. This article probes into the problems and future of 3D touch.

Why does Apple’s 3D Touch fail miserably? by Juan J. Ramirez

TESTING

Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms and Unit Testing with xUnit and Moq

Nick Randolph takes a look at some compatibility issues with the current version of Moq and a quick look at getting started with the next version of Moq.

Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms and Unit Testing with xUnit and Moq (II).aspx) by Nick

TOOLS

More APIs than you can shake a stick at

API.Guru's goal is to create a machine-readable Wikipedia for WEB APIs. It's kind of like programmable web. Lots of API's to discover and If you have an API spec in any format (OpenAPI, Swagger, RAML, WADL, API Blueprint etc) for any public API they want you to list them.

Browse APIs

XAMARIN FORMS

Creating a parallax carousel in Xamarin.Forms

Steven Thewissen has created an awesome parallax carousel view along with a blog post that covers the core concepts. A great read that really shows how with a bit of love and attention you can create amazing UI's in Xamarin.Forms

Creating a parallax carousel in Xamarin.Forms by Steven

Slide over menus with SlideOverKit

Thiago Bertuzzi has a look at getting started with a great little library called SlideOverKit by FreshMvvm author Micheal Ridland.

NOTE: Post is in Portuguese, but you know what to do if you're an English speaker... just do a google translate ;-)

O X do Xamarin Forms — Menu Slide by Thiago Bertuzzi

Defining Colors in XAML

Marcos continues to discuss best practices and guidelines for how he likes to structure his XAML styles and resources.

Xamarin.Forms XAML: Colors by Marcos

Summary of NET Conf 2018 – What's New in Xamarin Forms Part 2

Devlin continues his list of What’s New in Xamarin Forms that I saw from .NET Conf 2018. Personally, I'm looking forward to a more powerful Collection View.

Summary of NET Conf 2018 – What's New in Xamarin Forms Part 2 by Devlin

What would you change about Xamarin.Forms?

Rui Marino jumped onto Twitter and asked the question:

If you could wave a magic wand and change anything – doesn’t matter if it’s possible or not – about #XamarinForms , what would it be? #xamarin #microsoft

Go ahead and post your suggestions/wishes.

Rui Marinho on Twitter by Rui Marinho

AZURE

Sentiment Analysis

Understanding the sentiment of an email or text message can be difficult. Someone may send a message, intending for it to be encouraging, but it may be accidentally interpreted as mean or condescending. Luckily, Microsoft’s Text Analytics Service can help avoid any confusion.

Upgrade Your App with Sentiment Analysis by Brandon Minnick

PODCASTS & VIDEOS

The Xamarin Show - New Xamarin.Android Editor + Designer Features

This week, James is joined by friend of the show Jérémie Laval, developer on the Xamarin.Android team, who shows us all of the new and fancy features of the Xamarin.Android designer and editor.

New Xamarin.Android Editor + Designer Features by James Montemagno

Merge Conflict 118: Undo Architectures

Frank and James answer important questions such as if you should update to macOS Mojave this week and how to handle system updates in general. Our main topic this week is "Micro Frameworks/Libraries" and re-usable code across all of your projects. Should you architect your code for max re-use or should you just shove it into your project and ship code!

Undo Architectures