James Montemagno
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More Plugins for Xamarin: Vibrate, Device Info, Connectivity, & Battery

I hope that everyone has been having a wonderful holiday season. Over the last month I have had one large goal; to create a plethora of Plugins for Xamarin [http://motzcod.es/post/104507063997/what-exactly-is-a-plugin-for-xamarin]. This desire to create plugins started a long time ago when I created my very first NuGet packages for cross platform settings [http://motzcod.es/post/102974754207/an-improved-cross-platform-settings-library-for] . Once I iterated on the plugin and saw how successful a…

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What Exactly is a Plugin for Xamarin?

I am so glad that you asked! I recently blogged about creating reusable plugins for Xamarin.Forms [http://blog.xamarin.com/creating-reusable-plugins-for-xamarin.forms/], and it might have caught you a bit off guard. Does Xamarin.Forms or Xamarin itself have plugins? The short answer is YES with the power of PCLs and NuGet. Component vs. Plugin For a long time, Xamarin developers have been able to add rich functionality to their mobile applications by adding Components from the Component Store […

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