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…
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…
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…
So, this is pretty awesome! Today, the Mobile Center team rolled out a huge
update to Visual Studio Mobile Center [http://mobile.azure.com]enabling you to
build your iOS and Android apps in the cloud from any GitHub, BitBucket, or
Azure DevOps (VSTS) code repository! This is great because VSTS offers FREE
unlimited private repos for your code with a git backend. Mobile Center offers
up build, test, distribute, analytics, and backend services for any mobile app
written in any language. It couldn’…
If you just updated to Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4
[https://blog.xamarin.com/announcing-xamarin-forms-stable-release-2-3-4/]you may
have noticed and be freaking out that you have tons of green squiggles that
Device.OS and TargetPlatform are obsolete. This was all done in regards to the
new changes for OnPlatform [https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/pull/658].
We can see here that it says to use RuntimePlatform isntead, which is a string…
but how do you use it??!?! If you hover over TargetPlatfo…
I get a lot of questions about Xamarin.Forms. One of my most popular blogs was
about spicing upiOS tabs with selected and unselected tab colors
[http://motzcod.es/post/138225183932/tintcolor-selectedimage-xamarin-forms-ios],
and since that day developers have been asking about Android. Well, to be honest
I was always against adding icons to material tabs in Android, but developers
want to do it, so here is how you can, with a Custom Renderer for a Tabbed Page.
Here is what it will look like at t…
I just installed the latest RC for Cycle 9 [http://releases.xamarin.com]and was
extremely surprised and happy to find some brand new Item Templates for
Xamarin.Forms including:
* Carousel Page
* List View Page
* Map Page
* Tabbed Page
Along with the awesome new project template creation!
When you add a page it will scaffold out your entire ViewModel too!!! Amazing!
Just by adding the ListView Page you get this:
New Tabbed Page:
I did a little Motz Codes Live walk…
Sometimes you want to ask your users to rate your application. There are several
components out there that will open a dialog box and prompt for ratings, but
sometimes you don’t want to stop the flow of your app and throw it in their
face. What I do in my application is simply add a section on my settings page
asking if they would like to rate the app. When pressed I launch the app store
directly to the review page:
Update!
This is now easier than ever with my Store Review Plugin
[https://git…
James Montemagno
