NEWS
Xamarin.Forms: Shopping Cart Day 6
Josh is stacking the Xamarin Forms post pretty high. This post is all about the style, check it out.
iOS 8 Bigger and Better with Xamarin
Xamarin released their support for all of the new APIs introduced in iOS8. Wow!
Xamarin Studio 5.3
Xamarin released Xamarin Studio 5.3. Updates to Nuget, Android L, and as usual, bug fixes.
Xamarin.Android Garbage Collection Improvements
2x to 10x improvement from the old collector to the new Tarjan mode.
Hybrid Apps in Xamarin?? Part 2
Jesse Liberty continues his series on Xamarin Hybrid apps and focuses on data access.
Xamarin at the Top of the Visionary Quadrant in Gartner’s Report
Gartner recognized Xamarin as a Mobile Application Development Platform visionary.
NuGet Support in Xamarin Studio 5.3
Matt Ward takes a more detailed look into the changes to NuGet and packaging for Xamarin Studio.
WordPressUniversal – a PCL library for WordPress based C# mobile apps
Marco Siccardi shows us his open sourced PCL library that uses WordPress's new JSON API.
From a click behavior to CheckBoxes and RadioButtons
Daniel continues his Xamarin Forms series. This week it's all about touch and using the TapGestureRecognizer.
Gone Mobile Podcast Episode 16 :iBeacons
Gone Mobile talks to Doug Thompson to dive into iBeacons, what they are, how they’re used, and where beacons are heading in the future.
Solving the “type or namespace name ‘Init’ does not exist” issue in Xamarin Forms
Laurent Bugnion creates and solves a sticky namespace problem with Xamarin Forms.
Xamarin Forms ListView ImageCell Recipe
Adam cooks up a Xamarin Forms recipe and use the built in ImageCell class for the cell view.
MEETUPS
Sept 13th: Seattle, WA: Seattle Code Camp!! Multiple Xamarin Sessions
Larry Jordan Jr. from Nordstrom, James Montemagno from Xamarin and Steven Yi from Xamarin will be giving talks. If you are in Seattle, this code camp should be on your calendar.
Sept 15th: Oslo Xamarin Meetup, Norway - Hackaton
Join this Hackaton to show your own code, learn new hints and tricks from other developers or just meetup with good spirit and learn more about Xamarin.
Sept 18: Cambridge, MA: What's New in iOS 8 using Xamarin
iOS 8 is one of the biggest iOS releases to date. In this session ,we'll cover some of the exciting new APIs that it brings to developers.