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.…
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…
I can’t help myself, I love Expression-Bodied Members from C# 6! Combined with
other powerful C# features it took this code:
public void OnPropertyChanged(string name)
{
var changed = PropertyChanged;
if(changed == null)
return;
changed(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(name));
}
to this:
public void OnPropertyChanged(string name)=>
PropertyChanged?.Invoke(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(name));
This is amazing! However, in C# 7 things get even better. Take our goo…
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…
Twitter recently launched Twitter Lite
[https://blog.twitter.com/2017/introducing-twitter-lite] a stripped down
“faster” and more “data friendly” version of their mobile app and refresh to
their mobile website. It is more than just a new mobile website, it really is a
Progressive Web App (PWA)
[https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/] that offers up
notifications, camera integration, and some of the common features of twitter
such as timelines, tweeting, and direct messages. It…
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