James Montemagno

Xamarin Studio + NuGet PCL Support!

From @SharpDevelop [http://twitter.com/sharpdevelop] comes a long awaited update to the Xamarin Studio NuGet Manager Plugin [https://github.com/mrward/monodevelop-nuget-addin]. I wrote about this plugin before, but with this update brings updated support for NuGet including PCLs for Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS. It is extremely easy to add this functionality to Xamarin Studio and I made a short video [http://screencast.com/t/L9tJzk3iZs] to get you going. Unable to display content. Adobe…

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Azure Mobile Services + Xamarin + PCL

You might have noticed that both @ChrisNTR [http://www.twitter.com/chrisntr] and myself have been on the .NET Rocks Roadshow [http://xamarin.com/modern-apps-roadshow]. We have been talking to awesome devs all over the US about Xamarin, PCL, and Azure all wrapped up into an amazing demo [http://bit.ly/DNRXamarin] (full source code there). One common question that has come up is that while a lot of people have the demo up and running they are having a hard time getting Azure + PCL integrated into…

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Let's fix that X86 Android Emulator

So genymotion is awesome! However, they recently released version 2.0 and while it seems like it is fine for personal use, using for anything else costs a huge premium. This isn’t a huge issue for some, but more pressing is the issues that I have run into with memory leaks and virtual box causing havok on my machine. So back to it, the good old x86 Intel HAX Android emulator for PC/Mac. First things first is that you can not run Hyper-V side by side HAX. This means if you want to run the x86 em…

James Montemagno

How to setup Xamarin Studio for iOS 6 Support

Even though iOS 7 has been dominating the market and is now on over 75% of iOS devices, it might still be important for you or your company to support iOS 6. It was for me recently when I was developing Puppy Kitty Overflow [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/puppy-kitty-overflow-random/id766177393?ls=1&mt=8] as my girlfriend [http://www.twitter.com/stefispice] is unable to upgrade her phone and I wanted to ensure she could run the app. So I sent out on a quest to get iOS 6 support working in…

James Montemagno

Setting up your Cross Platform VM Environment (WP, Win8, Xamarin)

I am not going to lie, I have always been a Windows guy. There is just something about OSX and iOS that really bothered me. It as more of a feeling than specifics, but this means that I have always ran Windows on a PC. I never had to worry about VMs or complex cases. To be honest everything was perfect, I had VS 2013, Genymotion (android emulator), Windows Phone, Windows 8, and then for iOS I just used Xamarin.iOS and it’s VS integration to debug to a Mac nearby. I didn’t really have to interfac…

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Animated GIF UIImageView in Xamarin.iOS

A little over a week ago I participate in a Nokia #DVLUP hackathon to create a Windows Phone app and get it published in under 2 weeks. I created something really simple and fun, which was Puppy Kitty Overflow that displays animated Dog and Cat images from catoverlflow.com [http://catoverflow.com] and dogoverflow.com [http://dogoverflow.com]. I was able to release it and get it on the Windows Phone Store [http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/puppy-kitty-overflow/95847bb0-a856-4d88-ad59-7…

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Google Plus Services, Login and +1 in Xamarin.Android

I have been dabbling around recently with integrating Google Play Services [https://developers.google.com/+/mobile/android/#recommend_content_with_the_1_button] into Android applications. Play Services are pretty interesting as they offer up a nice set of functionality including a G+ Sign In button and +1 sharing on G+. This is pretty intriguing to me because I have been building out a podcast streaming app for the Dot Net Rocks show. I wanted to build out a small sample to test what the detail…

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Modern Apps Roadshow Stop #1: Boston!

Today was a pretty awesome day here in Boston. In addition to being my 1 month anniversary working for Xamarin it was also the very first day of the .NET Rocks/Modern Apps Roadshow [http://xamarin.com/modern-apps-roadshow]. Over the last month I have been preparing and getting an amazing demo ready that I got to show off today, which showed off using Xamarin to create a cross platform app in C# for Windows Store, iOS, and Android using PCL and a Azure Mobile Service backend. I also got to finall…

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Xamarin Studio + NuGet PCL Support!

Let's fix that X86 Android Emulator

How to setup Xamarin Studio for iOS 6 Support

Setting up your Cross Platform VM Environment (WP, Win8, Xamarin)

Animated GIF UIImageView in Xamarin.iOS

Google Plus Services, Login and +1 in Xamarin.Android

Modern Apps Roadshow Stop #1: Boston!

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