Issue 332

KYM PHILLPOTTS

G'day everyone, welcome to issue #332 of Weekly Xamarin - a weekly overview of what happened this past week in the Xamarin and MAUI communities.

Sorry for the late publish this week, but rest assured there is a bunch of great articles and videos to dig into this week.

Enjoy and stay safe,

❤

Kym

TOOLS

Local Deploy to Multiple Emulators

If you are looking for an easy way to test Xamarin.Forms or MAUI Application in a couple of Android Emulators and iOS Simulators at the same time, here is an interesting approach.

Local Deploy to Multiple Emulators and Simulators with Cake by Bohdan Benetskyi

XAMARIN FORMS

Use the iOS system colors in Xamarin.Forms

Apple has defined some best practices for coloring our iOS apps. To make it easier, Apple created system colors that are (partly) adaptive to the system's coloring. In this post, Marco shows you how to use these colors in Xamarin.Forms.

Use the iOS system colors in Xamarin.Forms by Marco Siccardi

Assets and HTML pages as "embedded resource"

Maybe you want to pull a HTML page from an embedded resource inside your Xamarin.Forms project - well now you know how.

Xamarin Forms | Assets e páginas HTML como embedded resource by Felipe Baltazar

Create DataMatrix Barcodes With Telerik UI for Xamarin

Telerik UI for Xamarin R3 2021 brings DataMatrix symbology to the Barcode control, so you can easily generate data matrix codes.

Create DataMatrix Barcodes With Telerik UI for Xamarin by Yana Kerpecheva

Create a File Picker Using Xamarin.Essentials and Telerik UI

Pick files with Xamarin.Essentials FilePicker API and visualize them in your mobile and desktop apps using the Telerik UI for Xamarin suite.

Create a File Picker Using Xamarin.Essentials and Telerik UI by Dobrinka Yordanova

MAUI

First Steps on MAUI Beach

Dave get started with a fantastic series on getting started with MAUI.

First Steps on MAUI Beach by Dave Murray

Applying borders in .NET MAUI

MAUI has border properties which you can use out of the box. (RIP PancakeView). In this post Leomaris introduces you to them.

Applying borders in .NET MAUI by Leomaris Reyes

Create Your First .NET MAUI App with Microsoft MVP Codrina Merigo

This blog provides show notes for our November 11, 2021 webinar, “Create Your First .NET MAUI App.” The webinar was presented by Microsoft MVP Codrina Merigo.

Create Your First .NET MAUI App with Microsoft MVP Codrina Merigo by Graham High

Sands of MAUI: Issue #36

Sam updates us on the weeks MAUI happenings

Sands of MAUI: Issue #36 by Sam Basu

.NET MAUI Roadmap Previews

If you want to know where to find out where MAUI is up to, Leomaris shares it here.

.NET MAUI Roadmap Previews by Leomaris Reyes

PODCASTS & VIDEOS

Android for .NET 6: The .NET Show with Carl Franklin Ep 14

Carl welcomes Microsoft’s Jonathan Peppers to talk about how Android projects work in .NET 6.

Android for .NET 6: The .NET Show with Carl Franklin Ep 14 by Carl Franklin

Develop iOS Apps Without a Mac, on Windows with Xamarin Hot Restart

That's right, with Xamarin Hot Restart you can develop iOS apps straight from Windows, without ever having to own a Mac. In this video I will go over what Xamarin Hot Restart is exactly and how to get you started with development in Visual Studio 2022. Last but not least: I tell you the secret on how to even publish your app to the App Store... FOR FREE!

Develop iOS Apps Without a Mac, on Windows with Xamarin Hot Restart by Gerald Versluis

Merge Conflict: 284: C# 10 Global & Implicit Usings

Are global and implicit usings controversial? It seem so, we discuss all the details of this awesome C# 10 feature.

Merge Conflict: 284: C# 10 Global & Implicit Usings by Merge Conflict

Null Pointers 76: Coded UI & Comet

Coded UI in Xamarin.Forms is not as popular as using XAML, but if you ask our guest Brandon Minnick we’re all crazy for liking XAML so much. Join us in learning why!

76: Coded UI & Comet by Null Pointers