Issue 341

KYM PHILLPOTTS

G'day everyone, welcome to issue #341 of Weekly Xamarin - a wrapup of the Xamarin and MAUI communities this week. Some interesting posts on Github Actions, design topics, and charting in MAUI.

Wishing everyone a safe week.

❤

Kym

DESIGN

19 Best Practices for Faster UI Mockups

Get practical tips for faster and cleaner UI mockups. A compilation of 19 best practices to speed up your design process.

19 Best Practices for Faster UI Mockups by UXPin

DEVOPS

Setting up CI for your .NET MAUI iOS app in Azure DevOps

Continuing the posts about setting up Azure DevOps continuous integration (CI) for your .NET MAUI app - but this time the focus is on iOS apps.

Setting up CI for your .NET MAUI iOS app in Azure DevOps by Andreas Nesheim

Intro to GitHub Actions for .NET

Developers that use GitHub for managing their git repositories have a powerful continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) feature with the help of GitHub Actions. In this post, you’ll learn how GitHub Actions can improve your .NET development experience and team productivity to automate common .NET app dev scenarios.

Intro to GitHub Actions for .NET by David Pine

XAMARIN FORMS

Properly Manage Background Tasks in Xamarin Forms

Have a long running task in your app? Android and iOS have built-in mechanisms to properly manage background tasks in Xamarin Forms.

Properly Manage Background Tasks in Xamarin Forms by Damien Doumer

MAUI

Learn to Draw 2D Charts in .NET Maui

In this tutorial you will learn how to draw customizable 2D charts using .NET Maui.Graphics.

Learn to Draw 2D Charts in .NET Maui by Jon Nichols

Touching Base with .NET MAUI Essentials

In .NET MAUI, we are going to continue working with the wonderful set of APIs provided by Xamarin Essentials, but it will be called .NET MAUI Essentials.

Touching Base with .NET MAUI Essentials by Leomaris Reyes

App Configuration Settings in .NET MAUI (appsettings.json)

Learn how easy it is to use an appsettings.json in your .NET MAUI app for complete control over configuration.

App Configuration Settings in .NET MAUI (appsettings.json) by James Montemagno

Change .NET MAUI iOS Status Bar Color

Learn you how to customize the status bar color for a .NET MAUI iOS app, even when rotating the device!

Change .NET MAUI iOS Status Bar Color by Gerald Versluis

Create a Hyperlink UI in .NET MAUI Preview 13

In this blog, let’s see how the formatted text feature helps create labels with a hyperlink UI in .NET MAUI Preview 13 apps.

Create a Hyperlink UI in .NET MAUI Preview 13 by Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan

Sands of MAUI: Issue #46

Sam wraps up the week in MAUI!

Sands of MAUI: Issue #46 by Sam Basu

PODCASTS & VIDEOS

The Biggest (Overlooked) .NET MAUI Feature: Single-Project

It's easy to forget that maybe the best feature of .NET MAUI apps is the single project approach. You still have all the power to write platform-specific code, but things like managing your image resources becomes so much easier. In this video I will give you an overview of what the single-project approach means and how it will help you!

The Biggest (Overlooked) .NET MAUI Feature: Single-Project by Gerald Versluis

Issue 341 4th March 2022