Issue 334 10th January 2022

KYM PHILLPOTTS

G'day everyone, welcome to issue #334 of Weekly Xamarin - a weekly overview of what happened this past week in the Xamarin and MAUI communities.

It's now 2022 and we here at Weekly Xamarin hope everyone has had a refreshing break over the new year period and are now ready to start the new year.

This weeks edition is overflowing with articles published during the New Years break when everyone was supposed to be on holidays. I'm playing catchup, so sorry about the number of articles.

❤

Kym

DESIGN

Useful UX Guidelines, Tools And Resources

A meaningful user experience is what can set your site apart from others. But what makes an experience truly meaningful? And how to achieve that? The tools, tips, and resources in this post not only help you to come up with a UX strategy that works for you and your team but also to circumvent potential UX pitfalls.

Useful UX Guidelines, Tools And Resources — Smashing Magazine by Cosima Mielke

TOOLS

Converting Xamarin Native templates to .NET 6

Andreas is impatient and wants the Xamarin Native templates to be updated to the new SDK-Style projects. And here is how.

Converting Xamarin Native templates to .NET 6 - Andreas Nesheim by Andreas Nesheim

Using SVG files as App Icons in iOS & Android Xamarin apps

Using ResizetizerNT to generate all the tedious Xcassets, PNGs & XMLs files, including adaptive and round icons.

Using SVG files as App Icons in iOS & Android Xamarin apps by Saamer Mansoor

XAMARIN FORMS

Xamarin.Forms and Draggable View

It’s New Year Tale about how to make Draggable View in Xamarin.Forms Application.

Xamarin.Forms and Draggable View. The New Year Tale by Bohdan Benetskyi

Improving the UX when loading data in Xamarin Forms

Loading data is one of the most common tasks that we do in a mobile application. Make it more enjoyable for your users by using some of these techniques.

Improving the UX when loading data in Xamarin Forms by Charlin Agramonte

Understanding Paths in Data Binding

This is the first in a series on advanced data binding. This post focuses on understanding how paths are constructed and used in Data Binding.

Advanced Data Binding Part 1 by Rodrigo Juarez

Understanding Converters in Databinding

There are times when you need to bind to a source but the source is not in the right format or otherwise needs to be manipulated. This is where Converters shine.

Advanced Databinding Part 2: Converters by Rodrigo Juarez

Getting Xamarin.Forms Prism navigation service to throw exceptions

Prism stopped raising exceptions on navigation at some point and now returns a INavigationResult which has a Exception property. Maybe you want to change that, well, this post will show you how.

Getting Xamarin.Forms Prism navigation service to throw exceptions by Jean-Marie Alfonsi

MAUI

Getting started with Font Scaling in .NET MAUI

Having your application adapt to the font size settings configured in the Operating System makes for a good user experience. This can be achieved by using Font Scaling. Learn how to use this feature in .NET MAUI.

Getting started with Font Scaling in .NET MAUI by Leomaris Reyes

MAUI Preview 11 is here!

.NET MAUI Preview 11 continues to stabilize controls and layouts, and introduces multi-window and Fluent updates for Windows.

Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 11 by David Ortinau

Building .NET MAUI apps with GitHub Actions

Using GitHub Actions to build a cross platform .NET MAUI app for Android, iOS, MacCatalyst and Windows is complicated. Dave explains each step in the process.

Building .NET MAUI apps with GitHub Actions by Dave Murray

Installing .NET MAUI on macOS

In this post David covers how you can setup your macOS environment to build .NET MAUI apps even without VS2022.

Installing .NET MAUI on macOS by David Ortinau

The more things change, the more they stay the same

.NET MAUI has it's roots in Xamarin.Forms and as such, there are parts in Maui that are exactly the same. In this post, Leomaris looks at a few of those things.

Looking for things to start migrating from Xamarin to .NET MAUI? by Leomaris Reyes

Upgrading Xamarin.Forms projects to .NET MAUI with upgrade assistant

Using the Upgrade Assistant to migrate a Xamarin.Forms app to .NET MUAI.

Upgrading Xamarin.Forms projects to .NET MAUI with upgrade assistant by András Tóth

Setup .NET MAUI project on macOS

András looks into getting starting with creating .NET MAUI apps on macOS.

Setup .NET MAUI project on macOS by András Tóth

Some little tips to start studying .NET MAUI

3 steps you can be taking to upskill and get ready for .NET MAUI

Some little tips to start studying .NET MAUI by Leomaris Reyes

Syncfusion .NET MAUI Radial Gauge Control

Syncfusion's radial guage for .NET MAUI is looking pretty sweet. You can use this control to design speedometers, temperature monitors, sleep trackers, circular progress indicators, watches, compasses, and more.

Everything You Need to Know About .NET MAUI Radial Gauge Control by Syncfusion

Horizontal & Vertical StackLayout in .NET MAUI

StackLayout is one of the most useful layout types in Xamarin.Forms. In MAUI it has been replaced with a Vertical and a Horizontal StackLayout.

Horizontal & VerticalStackLayout in .NET MAUI by Leomaris Reyes

Semantic focus with .NET MAUI

Accessibility features are one of the important design decisions of .NET MAUI.

Semantic focus with .NET MAUI by Leomaris Reyes

Learn How to Use Dependency Injection in .NET MAUI

As you know, .NET MAUI evolved from Xamarin.Forms with a better developer experience and better performance. Like adding a gem to a crown, .NET MAUI allows the use of dependency injection way easier than Xamarin.Forms.

Learn How to Use Dependency Injection in .NET MAUI by Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan

Introduction to MAUI

Damien gives an introduction to MAUI and some of it's capabilities and advantages.

Introduction to Dotnet MAUI - Cool Coders by Damien Doumer

Implicit usings in .NET MAUI

.NET 6 and C# 10 introduced Implicit usings - and as of Preview 11 you can take advantage of them in .NET MAUI.

Implicit usings in .NET MAUI by David Britch

Announcing DevExpress Mobile UI for .NET MAUI Preview 11

Deliver elegant and high-performance native mobile apps with the DevExpress Xamarin Forms and .NET Multi-platform App UI Controls.

Announcing DevExpress Mobile UI for .NET MAUI Preview 11 by DevExpress

.NET MAUI Source Of Truth - Exploring IWindow

This is post #1 in a series called ‘.NET MAUI Source of Truth’ where Michael Ridland digs through source code to see how things actually work under the covers. In this post he looks at the concept of IWindows and the hope of multi window applications.

.NET MAUI Source Of Truth - Exploring IWindow by Michael Ridland

Sands of MAUI: Issue #38

Sam keeps us up to date with .NET MAUI updates.

Sands of MAUI: Issue #38 by Sam Basu

PODCASTS & VIDEOS

Merge Conflict: 286: is not null

More C# features coming at you! Ones that you totally need to know about!

Merge Conflict: 286: is not null by Merge Conflict

.NET MAUI Community Toolkit - Monthly Standup (January 2022)

The .NET MAUI Community Toolkit is a community-created library that contains .NET MAUI Extensions, Advanced UI/UX Controls, Effects, and Behaviors to help make your life as a .NET MAUI developer easier.

.NET MAUI Community Toolkit - Monthly Standup (January 2022) by .NET Foundation

.NET MAUI Community Standup - Comet with Clancey

Join Maddy Montaquila, David Ortinau, and special guest James Clancey to learn more about Comet - an MVU style cross-platform framework for building apps with .NET!

.NET MAUI Community Standup - Comet with Clancey by dotNet Youtube Channel

VS2022 17.1 Preview 2 and .NET MAUI Preview 11 Updates: For Real Now!

There it is! Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 2 was released and that should make it easier for you to use .NET MAUI Preview 11 as well! In this update about the update I will walk you through what is now and how to install things yourself and maybe look forward to .NET MAUI Preview 12 a bit already?

VS2022 17.1 Preview 2 and .NET MAUI Preview 11 Updates: For Real Now! by Gerald Versluis

RELEASES

Visual Studio 17.1 Preview 2 is now available!

Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 2 is out and focuses on enhancing existing features, bring new productivity improvements, and make it easier for you to make Visual Studio your own.

Visual Studio 17.1 Preview 2 is now available! by Dominic Nahous