Issue 237

LUCE CARTER

It's almost Christmas!

Hey everyone,

Quieter issue this week after the bumper set from last week. But still all fantastic articles and videos, so thank you to those involved!

To those of you who celebrate Christmas, I hope you are all looking forward to quality time with friends and family.

Have a great weekend! Luce 🧡

XAMARIN FORMS

Santa Talk: An Intelligent Serverless Xamarin App

For those readers of the newsletter who celebrate Christmas, especially those with families, a big part of it is the visit from Santa. Of course Santa only delivers presents to those who have been nice. Matt Soucoup has come up with a great Xamarin.Forms app using a mixture of Azure and Cognitive Services to help you find out which list you're on!

Santa Talk: An Intelligent Serverless Xamarin App by Matthew Soucoup

Replicating great UI in Xamarin Forms

More beautiful UI's for you to admire and replicate. This one from Leomaris replicates Mountain Trip design from Dribble.

Replicating great UI in Xamarin Forms by Leomaris Reyes

Add a swipe menu to your Xamarin.Forms app

A common pattern in mobile apps is to use a swipe menu, a menu that appears when a user is swiping an item in a list for example. We often see this in mail- and messages apps. Learn more about the new SwipeView control.

Add a swipe menu to your Xamarin.Forms app by Daniel Hindrikes

What code behind means in Xamarin Forms

I really liked this article from Luis on code behind. We all know what it is at a high-level. But can you explain what it is doing, why and when to use it? If the answer is no, not to worry as after this you will!

What code behind means in Xamarin Forms by Luis Matos

Useful converters in Xamarin Forms

Great article from Charlin aka XamGirl, with a comprehensive list of converters she uses, so that you too can use them in your projects!

Useful converters in Xamarin Forms by Charlin Agramonte

Social Auth With Xamarin Forms and Asp.net core API

Mobile apps rarely exist in silo, often make use of backends using our technologies or frameworks. We also want to limit access to these backends to only those who should get access. Social authentication is an easy way to use existing accounts to authorise access.

Social Auth With Xamarin Forms and Asp.net core API by Damian Doumer

PODCASTS & VIDEOS

Xamarin.Forms 101: Control Templates | The Xamarin Show

In this week's episode of Xamarin.Forms 101, Maddy introduces Control Templates, which allow you to declare UI that can be shared across pages such as a header and footer. I never knew about these until this episode so if you are like me, prepared to be blown away!

Xamarin.Forms 101: Control Templates by Maddy Leger

Merge Conflict: 179: Analyzing All That Data

After a year of gathering data in his apps, Frank finally sat down to analyze it all. Did it answer his questions? Did he make changes to the app? Did he rip the telemetry out completely? Tune in.

Merge Conflict: 179: Analyzing All That Data by Merge Conflict

The Xamarin Podcast Episode 68: All The New 4's: Xamarin Forms 4.4 and Visual Studio 16.4!!

Everything that's new ends with a 4!

This month James and Matt go over the big releases of Visual Studio 16.4 and Xamarin.Forms 4.4!

The Xamarin Podcast Episode 68: All The New 4's: Xamarin Forms 4.4 and Visual Studio 16.4!!

Xamarin: .NET Community Standup - Dec. 5th, 2019 - Hacktoberfest Recap!

One of my favourite parts of the month is the Xamarin .NET Community Standup, and this month's was a bumper session after Ignite kept the team busy in November.

Xamarin: .NET Community Standup - Dec. 5th, 2019 - Hacktoberfest Recap! by DotNetFoundation

RELEASES

Get Moving with Xamarin.Forms 4.4 | Xamarin Blog

Xamarin.Forms 4.4 is out which means we get another great summary article of the new features. I am excited to get started with some of these in my apps very soon!

Get Moving with Xamarin.Forms 4.4 by David Ortinau