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The announcement of Android L Developer Preview support for Xamarin.Android developers brings tons of goodies to start playing around with, but did you know that there has been several updates to the Android designer as well? If you look through the release notes of Xamarin Studio 5.3 you will several enhancements such as the new Android L & Wear themes and devices, but also support for Action Bar menu icons and …
James Montemagno
Sometimes a plain ListView just isn’t good enough. You can easily spice it up with images or custom cells, but what about organizing the data. With C# and LINQ it is easy to sort your list, but how about giving it some visuals? How about some headers? With Xamarin.Forms it is extremely simple to add in headers and to create a custom view as well.
James Montemagno
There have been a lot of exciting announcements recently from Xamarin for developers. First, is that Xamarin Indie now has a monthly subscription option for just $25 a month! Then there was the release of Xamarin Studio 5.2, which brought awesome new features such as side-by-side editing and awesome new NuGet updates. I have been a Visual Studio user for probably over 10 years and I have been using Xamarin Studio for …
James Montemagno
I love it when frameworks have built-in cells for lists. It allows me to easily shove some data into a list and get my prototype up and running extremely quickly. However, sometimes I don’t to ship the final app with these cells and I want to do some customization. Xamarin.Forms has 4 built-in cells to get you up and running and like everything else in Xamarin.Forms it is extremely easy to customize and create your …
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After several trips around the US in the last few weeks, I am finally heading back to my second home, Phoenix AZ. I will be driving all around the valley visiting and presenting at several local user groups this week. This weekend I will be presenting and helping at a Xamarin workshop to help build a brand new Code Camp mobile app! If you are in the Phoenix area and want to chat Xamarin and other mobile development …
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It is unfortunate that we don’t live in a world where we can use an iOS, Android, and Windows Phone emulators/simulators at the same time. Nested virtualization really messes things up and even if that worked the arm emulators for Android are a nightmare. Even on the PC side where I can use the wonderful x86 emulator (read my blog post on setup) for Android, you have to turn off hyper-v to get things to work, and of …
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The goal of MVVM is to abstract away your Views from your Business Logic. This ensures great code reuse, testability, and is pretty awesome. Many MVVM Frameworks offer tools to enhance this such as data binding and dependency services to make our lives easier. These are built into Xamarin.Forms, which is awesome, but one feature less talked about is the Messaging Center. It’s entire goal is to enable ViewModels or …
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Last week I posted an introduction to Xamarin.Forms article on the Xamarin blog. I went over a simple master/detail flow with a list of monkeys that data bound to a ListView, and then navigate to a detail view displaying more information about the monkey when selected. It was a pretty simple implementation and I wanted to dive deeper into adding functionality.
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.
