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TOOLS
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Alyson La
This is the fourth in a series of posts featuring protips from GitHubbers for improving productivity, efficiency, and more.
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Alyson La by Alyson La
Enabling LLVM for your Xamarin.iOS custom build targets
Build targets are not only great to differentiate between a Debug and Release builds. You can also use them for targeting different environments or configurations of your app.
Enabling LLVM for your Xamarin.iOS custom build targets by Mark Allibone
Connecting to locahost over HTTPS
Last year, David Britch wrote about how to connect to localhost over HTTPS from iOS simulators and Android emulators. Things have moved on and now he has updated it.
Connecting to locahost over HTTPS from simulators and emulators (revisited) by David Britch
Running older versions of Xcode and Xamarin
We have all faced the nightmare of updating our tools such as the IDE and being met with messages when we try to do something such as build or run. Damian faced such an issue recently with Xcode and Xamarin and has shared how he resolved it.
Running older versions of Xcode and Xamarin by Damian Mehers
XAMARIN FORMS
MaterialFrame leveled up with a Blur theme!
MaterialFrame is a great looking control that implements different themes, including Acrylic. Well it does now after someone pointed out that it was doing it all wrong ;-) But it's fixed now.
MaterialFrame leveled up with a Blur theme! by Jean-Marie Alfonsi
EmptyView with BindableLayouts
With Xamarin.Forms 4.6 we get support for EmptyView in BindableLayouts. That's was a missing piece from the incredibly useful BIndableLayout component.
Note: Article is in Spanish
[Xamarin.Forms] EmptyView llega a BindableLayouts by Javier Suárez Ruiz
Examples, and tips for creating applications in Xamarin Forms
Luis Matos brings together some tips to improve your mobile development application skills with Examples and Tips for Xamarin Forms.
Examples, and tips for creating applications in Xamarin Forms by Luis Matos
Quarantine Bingo
When I saw Matt had created this I was super excited, what a fun use of some of my favourite technologies! Using Speech to Text and Xamarin, he created an app that will automate part of playing bingo!!
Xamarin.Forms ColorPicker component
Ever needed a ColorPicker component for Xamarin.Forms? There's a nuget for that.
Note: Article is in Portuguese
Xamarin Forms Acrylic Material Frames
The Fluent Design System helps you create modern, bold UI that incorporates light, depth, motion, material, and scale. Acrylic is a Fluent Design System component that adds physical texture (material) and depth to your app.
6 Ways in Which Xamarin Forms Evolved
This a great post from Damien, discussing how Xamarin.Forms has evolved over the years. It is a fantastic reminder of just how far we have come and the amazing work from the team and the community.
PODCASTS & VIDEOS
Six Things to Love in Xamarin.Forms 4.6 | The Xamarin Show
This week, James is joined by friend of the show David Ortinau, Principal Program Manager for Xamarin, who shows off one of the coolest new features in Xamarin.Forms 4.6. This including updates to Visual Material, Shell, Expander, C# UI markup extensions, font embedding, and more!
COVIDSafe App Teardown & Panel Discussion
The Australian Government has released the COVIDSafe app for helping track cases of community transmission of COVID. Whilst technically not a Xamarin application, some of our wonderful community members have taken apart the application and done a technical evaluation.
WIth: Alec Tucker, Geoff Huntley, Kate Carruthers, Matthew Robbins and Troy Hunt
It's also worth checking out an interesting Twitter thread by Matthew Robbins
Xamarin.Forms 101: Basic Animations
Let's take a step back in a new mini-series that I like to call Xamarin.Forms 101. In each episode we will walk through a basic building block of Xamarin.Forms to help you build awesome cross-platform iOS, Android, and Windows applications in .NET.
Merge Conflict: 199: Update, Rewrite, or Throw It Away
Frank is having a debate on whether he should update iCircuit to the latest bits or rewrite the apps with Xamarin.Forms. They discuss his options and James throws a bunch of crazy ideas his way.
Merge Conflict: 199: Update, Rewrite, or Throw It Away by Merge Conflict
RELEASES
Xamarin.Forms 4.6 Available
Today Xamarin.Forms 4.6 ships with a host of improvements, including several new feature previews.
Xamarin.Forms 4.6 Available Today! : Xamarin Blog by [David Ortinau]