.NET MAUI

Developing Android Apps on Windows Arm Devices

I have gone all in on Arm devices! My main MAC machine is a Mac Book Air M1 and now my main driver at work is a Windows Dev Kit 2023 (aka Project Volterra). One tricky thing for developers is getting all the software we use to work properly on Arm. Things have come a long way since the original release of Arm devices for Mac and Windows. I have a full setup guide for my M1 for Xamarin and now .NET MAUI development, but what about Windows? Visual Studio 2022 recently released a full native Arm v…

James Montemagno

Enabling Users to Manage Subscriptions on iOS/Android

You know I love talking about in app purchases and subscriptions. Due to my InAppBilling [https://github.com/jamesmontemagno/InAppBillingPlugin] library I get all the "fun" updates when Apple or Google force developers to make changes to stay compliant. Upcoming is a nice large change from Google to push Android developers to use Billing v4 (which my library does!) and another is that we must now give users a way to easily manage and cancel their subscriptions. You may have recently s…

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App Configuration Settings in .NET MAUI (appsettings.json)

.NET MAUI is right around the corner and Preview 13 is out right now! There are so many great features packed into .NET MAUI and my favorite has to be all of the great Dependency Injection and configuration that goes into the MauiProgram startup. If you want to know more checkout my most recent YouTube video breaking down Preview 13 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dkk-74x-V8] and all of the configuration that is built in including Essentials, Blazor, and more. But, what if you want to do oth…

James Montemagno

Goodbye Android Emulators, the Windows Subsystem for Android is Here!

Android Emulators have been a pain in everyone's side for pretty much ever [https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/android/get-started/installation/android-emulator/?WT.mc_id=friends-0000-jamont] . Intel HAXM is great, but limited to Intel, then there were custom emulators like Xamarin Android Player and Genymotion, but required additional installs, and finally Hyper-V support, which brought with it AMD support, and side by side Docker support as well. But now, Windows 11 is here and so is a bra…

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Developing Android Apps on Windows Arm Devices

Enabling Users to Manage Subscriptions on iOS/Android

App Configuration Settings in .NET MAUI (appsettings.json)

Goodbye Android Emulators, the Windows Subsystem for Android is Here!

James Montemagno

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