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Generating Android Color Palettes Super Fast with Rev 22.1

Google went on a spree a few weeks back updating all of their support libraries to rev 22.1. If you haven’t read about all the changes be sure to read through the official Android Developer’s blog for a full breakdown [http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2015/04/android-support-library-221.html] . The most drastic change to the support libraries was to v7 AppCompat with the new AppCompatActivity, but there were several other enhancement to the libraries including one of my favorite Palette. I…

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1 Million Developers, Xamarin.Forms UAP, & I'm Speaking at Build!

Whoa! What an amazing day! Today Xamarin reached 1 Million Developer downloads [http://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-passes-1-million-developer-milestone/], released awesome new Xamarin.Forms goodness, and tons of other updates to kick off Build. If you didn’t see the full announcement be sure to check it out on the Xamarin Blog [http://blog.xamarin.com]. If you are here at Build I hope that you are sporting that awesome Xamarin shirt from the Xamarin Build party. I am honored to be giving two pr…

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Material Design Theming for Xamarin.Forms Android Apps

Update: As of Xamarin.Forms 1.5.1 Material Design AppCompat is included! See the official blog to convert your app: https://blog.xamarin.com/material-design-for-your-xamarin-forms-android-apps/ I am an extremely big fan of Material Design for Android applications. Case and point is this tweet that I sent out last night: > I wish the entire world was themed with Material Design. — James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) April 4, 2015 [https://twitter.com/JamesMontemagno/status/5841695007082168…

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Android Parallax Made Easy

You may have seen some of my tweets recently about the upcoming release of Coffee Filter 2.0 with some awesome new features. Before I release any Android app I always send it off to my good friend Jérémie Laval [http://twitter.com/jeremie_laval]to do a full UI review. We both love Android and Material Design and he always gives me the best pointers on how to improve my apps. On my details page I setup a complex view with an image on the background that sits behind a ScrollView for the content. I…

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Official Pull To Refresh in Xamarin.Forms 1.4.0!

I can not lie when I say I LOVE pull to refresh in apps. Just search my blog and you will see tons of posts on how to implement it in Android, iOS, MVVMCross, and of course my crazy custom implementations for Xamarin.Forms. While those were nice custom renderers that provided a simple API, we finally have something official from Jason and the Xamarin.Forms team in 1.4.0 [http://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/35451/], which released this week. The API looks strikingly familiar: I couldn’t expla…

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Essential Xamarin.Android Templates for Visual Studio

During my Effective Navigation in Android [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw8tB45kse4] talk at last years Xamarin Evolve I had the opportunity of showcasing my Xamarin.Android Templates Pack for Visual Studio [https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/bee6442f-8f5a-4bba-8849-e380b61e76b0] , which you can get from the Visual Studio Gallery under “Tools->Extensions and Updates”. I like the templates that come installed with Xamarin, however the flexibility of Visual Studio to easily creat…

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Coffee Filter: A C# Powered Android App in 2 Days

I love coffee. You will normally find me riding my bike around Seattle stopping from coffee shop to coffee shop indulging in a 8oz quad lattes, strong black coffee, or probably a shot in the dark. So when I set out to blog about the new Google Maps Lite API [http://blog.xamarin.com/android-tips-faster-maps-with-google-maps-lite/] it was pretty obvious what I needed to do… create an app showing me the closest coffee shops around me. In that moment Coffee Filter [https://play.google.com/store/apps…

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March 2nd, 2015

A full week of Xamarin in Dallas

I love to travel and talk to .NET developers all over the world who are interested in getting started in mobile development with Xamarin. I love it so much that I actually travel about 6 months out of the year. This upcoming week I have the pleasure of spending an entire week in Dallas, Texas and talk at 4 different events. * NEW DATE: March 9th 6PM: * Plano, TX @ North Dallas .NET Users GroupRegistration Link [http://northdallas.net/meetings/leveraging-net-c-and-xaml-to-create-nativ…

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Generating Android Color Palettes Super Fast with Rev 22.1

1 Million Developers, Xamarin.Forms UAP, & I'm Speaking at Build!

Material Design Theming for Xamarin.Forms Android Apps

Android Parallax Made Easy

Official Pull To Refresh in Xamarin.Forms 1.4.0!

Essential Xamarin.Android Templates for Visual Studio

Coffee Filter: A C# Powered Android App in 2 Days

A full week of Xamarin in Dallas

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