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Introducing Azure DevOps (VSTS) Mobile App Tasks Extension for iOS and Android

This year I have made a big push towards making Visual Studio Team Services [http://visualstudio.com/team-services] my new continuous everything for my mobile apps, libraries, and any other project that I work on. While Azure DevOps (VSTS) has a lot of built in tasks for mobile applications, there are still a few essential things missing that would really make it a joy to use. The top that stuck out was having the ability to easily bump the version/build numbers for iOS and Android. The other wa…

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Building Xamarin.iOS Apps in Azure DevOps (VSTS) with Hosted macOS Agents!

Azure DevOps (VSTS) [http://visualstudio.com/team-services] is quickly becoming one of my favorite products that Microsoft creates for developers. It helps any developer writing apps in any language build, test, and deploy their applications. On top of that it has free unlimited private Git repos, work item tracking and kanban board, test, release management, and so much more! What is cool is you can use some of it or all of it, up to you. So if you have your code in GitHub, no problem, want to…

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Xamarin Live Player - VS 2017 version 15.4 & 15.5 Awesomeness

Last week Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4 and VS for Mac 7.2 were released into the stable channel. They include the very first release of the Xamarin Live Player [http://xamarin.com/live] capabilities in Visual Studios. This means you can simply update Visual Studio, turn on Xamarin Live Player (Preview), and get started visualizing your mobile apps with nothing more than VS and your iOS or Android device! Whenever there is a stable release a new preview release of Visual Studio is not far b…

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Connectivity Plugin 4.0: Important and Awesome Changes

The Connectivity Plugin for Xamarin [https://www.nuget.org/packages/Xam.Plugin.Connectivity] is my second most installed NuGet package with nearly 600,000 installs at time of writing this. It is easy to see why as it gives developers the ability to check connectivity on any platform with a single line of code, subscribe to events, and see what the current connection type is, with a complete cross platform API for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows. I mean look at this thing, it is beautiful: i…

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The Xamarin.Android Template Pack Returns for VS 2017

A few years back I published some awesome Xamarin.Android item and project templates [https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/bee6442f-8f5a-4bba-8849-e380b61e76b0?redir=0] to simplify development with Android’s AppCompat libraries. The item templates have actually found their way into Visual Studio, which is pretty awesome: What about the project templates? Well I am hoping for this fall to unleash brand new templates for Xamarin.Android directly in the box, but until then I have updat…

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Removing BottomNavigationView’s Icon Shifting in Xamarin.Android

I recently blogged about Android’s super fancy new BottomNavigationView [https://blog.xamarin.com/exploring-androids-bottom-navigation-view/], and how easy it was to get started with them in your Xamarin.Android application. I also went through a lot of color customizations that developers can blend in to really make their BottomNavigationView stand out. While this new bottom navigation is awesome, it is also still brand new with a lot of features locked behind internals and hidden fields, whi…

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Dynamically Changing Xamarin.Forms Tab Icons When Selected

Spicing up your Xamarin.Forms tab can easily be done in a few ways. You can add tint color in Android when the user deselects a tab [https://montemagno.com/xamarin-forms-android-selected-and-unselected-tab-colors], which can also be done in iOS in addition to a full swap of a selected image [https://montemagno.com/tintcolor-selectedimage-xamarin-forms-ios]. It was recently pointed out to me that these blogs highlighted a way of adding back a bit of nativeness, but didn't answer a different…

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Why Xamarin.Forms Embedding Matters

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.…

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Introducing Azure DevOps (VSTS) Mobile App Tasks Extension for iOS and Android

Building Xamarin.iOS Apps in Azure DevOps (VSTS) with Hosted macOS Agents!

Xamarin Live Player - VS 2017 version 15.4 & 15.5 Awesomeness

Connectivity Plugin 4.0: Important and Awesome Changes

The Xamarin.Android Template Pack Returns for VS 2017

Removing BottomNavigationView’s Icon Shifting in Xamarin.Android

Dynamically Changing Xamarin.Forms Tab Icons When Selected

Why Xamarin.Forms Embedding Matters

James Montemagno

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