Live, Love, Bike, and Code.
Live, Love, Bike, and Code.
As of recent I have been on a quest to always stay in Visual Studio. It has always been my favorite IDE and now that the iOS Simulator is on Windows and our Mac Build Host is rock solid it is time for me to shove that macOS machine in the closet :) I recently aquired a brand new Surface Book and got it all setup for Xamarin development, but what about testing? It has been some time since I got all of my NUnit and …
James Montemagno
I recently aquired a brand new fancy Surface Book, fully speced out and ready to go for Xamarin development. Of course, my fear is always actually getting things setup for the very first time as it has been a few years since my last clean build. I figured I would take a few moments to document what I installed and setup to get everything running.
James Montemagno
UPDATE Checkout my newly updated blog on Design Time Data best practices that are updated for the most recent changes in Xamarin.Forms. Original Post The most annticipated announcement of Xamarin Evolve 2016 had to be the Xamarin.Forms xAML Previewer. Enabling you to see a live preview of your Xamarin.Forms XAML without having to run it on a simulator or device. Simply write some XAML and there it is running on an …
James Montemagno
Just yesterday we made the Evolve 2016 conference app completely open source on GitHub, and feedback has been fantastic with 57 stars, 26 forks, and tons of buzz on Twitter. While you are probably already digging through the code I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the development of the mobile application and some fun statistics of the application when it finally went live.
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Where has James been? It has been a lonely few months here on the blog, which is something that has never happened in the past. I usually bust out two or three blogs a month in addition to the awesome stuff you will find over at the official Xamarin Blog. So where have I been? It isn’t like there is a lack of things I have been wanting to blog about: Effects, Parallax, new Support Packages, and so much more. Well, …
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Today, seems like the perfect day to celebrate what was 2015, the Year of the Goat. Additionally, to usher in and celebrate a new year, the Year of the Fire Monkey!!!! Just over a year ago, I wrote a piece about Developer Evangelism and recapped my first full year working at Xamarin. I am so happy to be able to take a break from coding to reflect on all of the amazing things that happened last year and everything …
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If you have been reading the blog recently then you know that I have been all about iOS on Xamarin.Forms. I love it! I can’t help myself. No more storyboards, no more xibs, and I get to use Grids and StackLayouts! Who would have thought that James Montemagno would be blogging more about iOS then Android on MotzCodes! Well the main reason is that while out of the box Xamarin.Forms iOS apps look pretty darn good there …
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iOS is a pretty unique platform. Since no device has a physical hardware back button like Android the navigation bar must fully represent a way for users to navigate back or close a modal page. To craft a great experience with Xamarin.Forms I always like to try to follow the platform guidelines as close as possible. In this post I am going to tackle the standard PushAsync of a page onto the Navigation stack. By …
James Montemagno
James Montemagno is a Principal Lead Program Manager for Developer Community at Microsoft. He has been a .NET developer since 2005, working in a wide range of industries including game development, printer software, and web services. Live, Love, Bike, and Code.
