LUCE CARTER
Kym is currently on a rather long flight from Australia to Barcelona at the moment, safe flight to him and his family!
Lots of great links as ever this week with lots of stuff covering highlights of Microsoft Connect(); 2018 that happened last week.
Don't hesitate to reach out to us @weeklyxamarin on Twitter if there is stuff you wish us to share that week in the newsletter!
Have a great weekend everyone and see you next week!
NEWS
Flutter 1.0: Google’s Portable UI Toolkit
Today, at Flutter Live, we're announcing Flutter 1.0, the first stable release of Google's UI toolkit for creating beautiful, native experiences for iOS and Android from a single codebase. Cross-platform mobile development today is full of compromise.
DESIGN
Never Ever Just Design Pretty Little Apps
Surfing some design-inspiration sites with my hype-busting, critical “U-X-ray eyes” :) I often come away with smoke rising out of my ears. Like the title says this is a rant, but don’t take it too seriously. I’m trying to make a point.
TOOLS
Create an amazing app in minutes from a Google Sheet
Although this produces a PWA rather than a Xamarin app, this is a really cool video from a company called Glide that is able to take data from a Google Sheets document and turn that into a design prototype you can then export!
ANDROID
Fixing AppCenter Android Build Error: /usr/bin/jarsigner failed with return code: 1
Ever encountered this error with Android in App Center? Well never fear because Pieter has you covered!
Fixing AppCenter Android Build Error: /usr/bin/jarsigner failed with return code: 1 by Pieter Nijs
XAMARIN FORMS
Xamarin.Forms XAML Sizes
Another post in a Xamarin.Forms XAML Series by Marcos. Today he discusses all things sizes including margins, padding and font sizes.
Refresh Indicator for ListView Color in Xamarin.Forms
For a project he is working on, Gerald needed to change the color of the spinner which is shown when you pull to refresh on a ListView. To his big surprise, this isn’t available by default. So, he thought he would add it so other people could benefit as well. In this post, he will share what the colored refresh indicator is and how to use it.
Refresh Indicator for ListView Color in Xamarin.Forms by Gerald Versluis
Simple way to use icon fonts in Xamarin Forms projects
Almost all apps use some kind of graphic icons to make the UI more attractive and easy to use. Here I will demonstrate a quick way of adding icon fonts in Xamarin applications.
Xamarin.Forms 4.0 Feature Preview: An Entirely New Point of (Collection)View
As part of the upcoming Xamarin.Forms 4.0 release, we are implementing the all new CollectionView control. The CollectionView is intended to be a successor to the ListView, improving upon its design by reducing technical complexity and allowing for more flexibility of layout and function. But we’re not stopping there! Along with this also comes the long-awaited CarouselView .
PODCASTS & VIDEOS
Merge Conflict: 127: Connect(); 2018 Recap - .NET Core 3, VS 2019, Xamarin.Forms 4, and More!
We break down every little bit of the Microsoft Connect(); 2018 event including Visual Studio 2019, .NET Core 3, Xamarin.Forms 4.0, C# 8, and a whole lot more.
Debug to iOS Devices Over Wi-Fi
Follow along on this week's Xamarin Show as James shows you how to setup your iOS device to wirelessly debug from Visual Studio on your Windows PC!
Visual Studio Mobile Developer Episode 56: Let's Reboot This
n this month's episode we reboot the podcast! Matt Soucoup, a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft joins James as host and we expand the topics to focus both on Xamarin mobile development and using Azure with your mobile apps.
In this episode we recap the latest news in the Xamarin world including a marathon Twitch workshop, wondering Android build time improvements, the latest news in Xamarin.Forms, and recent announcements from Microsoft Connect();. We also cover the latest in Azure news, including DevOps, MSAL, and new Azure Cosmos DB pricing.
All of this, and a whole lot more!