I could never imagine the amazing response to Plugins for Xamarin
[http://xamarin.com/plugins], those amazing little libraries that abstract away
all that platform specific code into a lovely cross-platform API for iOS,
Android, and Windows. They sure have grown, with hundreds of plugins being
generated by the community and with tons of installs. My plugins alone have now
hit 3 Million installations! With all this momentum it is a great time to look
to the future, simplify plugins, and take the…
Last week I wrote about Xamarin.Forms Embedding
[http://motzcod.es/post/161785997897/embedding-xamarinforms-into-a-xamarin-native-app]
, a great new feature of Xamarin.Forms, that enables developers to convert a
Xamarin.Forms ContentPage into an iOS UIViewController, Android Fragment, and a
UWP Page. I walked through the current setup and a real world example of adding
Xamarin.Forms details pages to my Xamarin Native application which previously
only had native Storyboards and Android XML pages.…
I have always been a video game nerd, so much so that I went to school to go and
create games for a living. I worked at a studio, helped develop a game called
Shred Nebula for Xbox 360, and then left the industry forever. While I may not
be creating games anymore, my passion is not gone and there is a time each year
that I geek out.
It is that time of the year when all the big game publishers and console
creators go BIG and announce everything, and that event is E3 and that time of
year was thi…
You know I love Xamarin.Forms, but I also absolutely love Xamarin Native with
iOS Storyboards, Android XML, and all of that UWP goodness. When you want to
build an app that opens in sub-2 seconds, super optimized, and takes advantage
of every custom control and animation out there (especially with material
design) you have to go Xamarin Native. That is why the next evolution and
favorite new feature, Xamarin.Forms embedding, of Xamarin.Forms enables you to
embed any Xamarin.Forms ContentPage int…
I can’t help myself, I love Expression-Bodied Members from C# 6! Combined with
other powerful C# features it took this code:
public void OnPropertyChanged(string name)
{
var changed = PropertyChanged;
if(changed == null)
return;
changed(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(name));
}
to this:
public void OnPropertyChanged(string name)=>
PropertyChanged?.Invoke(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(name));
This is amazing! However, in C# 7 things get even better. Take our goo…
Getting started, step by step, in under 15 minutes!
Yesterday, we announced the Xamarin Live Player for both iOS and Android which includes the Live Player Extensions for both Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio for Mac enabling you to get started with mobile development with just a device! The Live Player apps let you debug your apps and make live edits and see them reflected live on your device. Your code runs inside of the Live Player app, so no emulator needed and everything happens over WiFi, so you don’t even need to plug anything in.
Getting started with the Live Players is super simple and we have AMAZING DOCUMENTATION that you should read to get started.
Now once you have things running be sure to read through the Limitations and the Troubleshooting guide if you run into any issues and join the discussion on the forums.
Update 1: New Xamarin Live Player for Android Walkthrough video:
Update 2: Want to know how the Live Player was built? Listen to Frank and I on Merge Conflict discuss:
Getting started, step by step, in under 15 minutes!Yesterday, we announced the Xamarin Live Player [http://xamarin.com/live] for
both iOS and Android which includes the Live Player Extensions for both Visual
Studio 2017 and Visual Studio for Mac enabling you to get started with mobile
development with just a device! The Live Player apps let you debug your apps and
make live edits and see them reflected live on your device. Your code runs
inside of the Live Player app, so no emulator needed and e…
I could not be more excited to announce my latest podcast adventure with my good
friend and International Chess Master, Daniel “Danny” Rensch that we call
Coffeehouse Blunders [http://blunders.fm].
Join us each week on Coffeehouse Blunders as we discuss the latest in chess,
coffee, tech, and anything else happening in our wonderful lives and around the
world. Danny’s life as an International Chess Master collides with my mobile
development and public speaking background for absolutely adorab…
Last week I blogged about the important changes to Device.OS
[http://motzcod.es/post/159463651162/device-os-xamarin-forms-obsolete-runtime-os]
in the latest version of Xamarin.Forms. Well, I am back with some other changes
from that same exact Pull Request
[https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/pull/658] that have to do with
OnPlatform in code and XAML that use the new Device.RuntimePlatform.
So, what is OnPlatform? It allows you to set properties on elements or run
specific code based on…
James Montemagno
