An open source mobile platform for building Android, iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS apps with .NET.
April 10, 2020Apr 10, 202004/10/20Change Tracking API + JSON will make your dev life and mobile application data sync so easy you won’t believe it’s Azure SQL.
April 8, 2020Apr 8, 202004/8/20Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 was released! Which brings several new features and improvements for mobile developers in Visual Studio for Mac to help you build better mobile apps, faster.
April 6, 2020Apr 6, 202004/6/20Magic Gradients is a NuGet that provide a possibility to add beautiful and enhanced gradients into Xamarin.Forms applications. Here is a quick taste of what you can do with the library using it as a separate layer or background.
April 3, 2020Apr 3, 202004/3/20Embedded fonts means no more platform-specific handling of fonts or adding font files in three different projects. In this post we will see how to use this in Xamarin.Forms 4.5.530 and up.
April 1, 2020Apr 1, 202004/1/20Find an awesome virtual Xamarin community user group, live-stream, community stand-up, or binge past events this April. If you are a user group leader we also have great resources to help you start up a virtual event for your user group. Learn more!
March 30, 2020Mar 30, 202003/30/20Many apps require adding user authentication, and this often means enabling your users to sign in their existing Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and now Apple Sign In accounts. With Xamarin.Essentials' new WebAuthenticator and using ASP.NET Core on your backend it has never been easier. Learn more!
March 27, 2020Mar 27, 202003/27/20Image Classification allows our Xamarin apps to recognize objects in a photo. This article will walkthrough how to implement using Azure's Custom Vision Service, TensorFlow Lite (an open source machine learning platform) and Xamarin.Android.
March 25, 2020Mar 25, 202003/25/20RelativeSource is a markup extension that is used to bind a property of a given element to another property of the element itself. This articles shares examples, documentation, and more!
March 20, 2020Mar 20, 202003/20/20Keeping up with the latest in .NET, C#, Xamarin, and Azure is easier than ever. Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. In this month’s episode James and Matt pull out all the stops and really Focus on Xamarin.
March 19, 2020Mar 19, 202003/19/20Developers today can already take advantage of Startup Tracing to improve the startup time of their Android apps. Today, I will show you a new feature that let's you build a custom profile to be used for your app with Startup Tracing that finely tunes and optimizes your apps startup.
Android
March 30, 2020Mar 30, 202003/30/20Many apps require adding user authentication, and this often means enabling your users to sign in their existing Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and now Apple Sign In accounts. With Xamarin.Essentials' new WebAuthenticator and using ASP.NET Core on your backend it has never been easier. Learn more!
March 27, 2020Mar 27, 202003/27/20Image Classification allows our Xamarin apps to recognize objects in a photo. This article will walkthrough how to implement using Azure's Custom Vision Service, TensorFlow Lite (an open source machine learning platform) and Xamarin.Android.
March 19, 2020Mar 19, 202003/19/20Developers today can already take advantage of Startup Tracing to improve the startup time of their Android apps. Today, I will show you a new feature that let's you build a custom profile to be used for your app with Startup Tracing that finely tunes and optimizes your apps startup.
March 9, 2020Mar 9, 202003/9/20The ability to reuse components built with Kotlin has become increasingly important to Xamarin developers as their popularity amongst developers continues to grow. This post describes a high-level process of binding a Kotlin framework. Additional information with a detailed walkthrough is now available at Microsoft documentation.
February 21, 2020Feb 21, 202002/21/20AndroidX is here! Find out our plans for integration into Xamarin.Forms, Xamarin.Essentials, and beyond. Also, if you are a library creator we recommend a migration strategy for you and your users.
February 14, 2020Feb 14, 202002/14/20Today we are happy to bring you stable AndroidX NuGet packages. Since AndroidX is a large change for your Android projects, we’ve introduced a number of ways for you to migrate your project. Learn more!
January 22, 2020Jan 22, 202001/22/20Surface Duo introduces a whole new class of ultra-portable experiences running on dual screens. Today we are excited to announce our public preview of the SDK for Surface Duo. Xamarin developers can take advantage of the new SDK to enlighten existing apps and create innovative experiences for this new device that inspires creativity.
January 15, 2020Jan 15, 202001/15/20Android App Bundle is a new app packaging format from Google for Android applications that dramatically reduces the install size for end users.
January 13, 2020Jan 13, 202001/13/20The Visual State Manager (VSM) can now change a property on any child element within scope for our new Xamarin.Forms 4.5 pre-release version.
December 27, 2019Dec 27, 201912/27/19The Android App Bundle (.aab) is a new upload format that includes all of your app’s compiled code and resources, but defers APK generation and signing to Google Play at install time.
Announcements
April 1, 2020Apr 1, 202004/1/20Find an awesome virtual Xamarin community user group, live-stream, community stand-up, or binge past events this April. If you are a user group leader we also have great resources to help you start up a virtual event for your user group. Learn more!
February 26, 2020Feb 26, 202002/26/20Today we are thrilled to share that Xamarin.Forms 4.5 is now available bringing you AndroidX, new capabilities for creating responsive UI, and controls "in the box" to speed your development!
February 11, 2020Feb 11, 202002/11/20Today we are announcing the preview availability of our cross-platform dual-screen support for the Surface Duo and Surface Neo, two new and amazing devices coming from the Surface team!
January 22, 2020Jan 22, 202001/22/20Surface Duo introduces a whole new class of ultra-portable experiences running on dual screens. Today we are excited to announce our public preview of the SDK for Surface Duo. Xamarin developers can take advantage of the new SDK to enlighten existing apps and create innovative experiences for this new device that inspires creativity.
January 6, 2020Jan 6, 202001/6/20New Year, tons of awesome new ways to kick off your resolutions with Xamarin and .NET related events this January. Explore all the recent news and updates with your community at developer Meetups around the world. Including online, virtual events to watch from the comfort of your home!
December 5, 2019Dec 5, 201912/5/19The Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 release brings major productivity enhancements including the GA release of XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms, smaller Android APKs, tooling to migrate your applications to Android X, and numerous performance and reliability improvements.
November 15, 2019Nov 15, 201911/15/19Announcing Hacktoberfest 2019 contributors and swag awards with a grand total of 178 pull requests opened by 72 contributors this year alone!
October 22, 2019Oct 22, 201910/22/19Announcing the stable release of Xamarin.Forms 4.3.0! Marking the removal of the experimental flag from CollectionView as it moves into stable status. Along with this, comes a number of enhancements and contributions from the community including SourceLink support, the ability to display HTML on Labels, and more!
October 16, 2019Oct 16, 201910/16/19Announcing a new series on Xamarin YouTube Channel called “Partly Cloudy“ with Matt Soucoup: Exploring topics around Azure, DevOps, and Xamarin to learn how to build an app from scratch - all the way through deployment to the App Stores!
October 8, 2019Oct 8, 201910/8/19Code for cotton or from your love for Xamarin in this year's Hacktoberfest! Here are the guidelines to get you started. Be sure to tag your pull requests with the "Hacktoberfest" label to be considered for a reward.
Case Studies
February 7, 2020Feb 7, 202002/7/20Xamarin Showcase: BD is a leading healthcare safety and technologies company here to talk about their Diabetes Care app and vision to bring diabetes management to the 21st century. Read on to learn how it all started and what the future holds for the DC app.
January 31, 2020Jan 31, 202001/31/20Today's customer showcase story shows how aspiring developers are using the Little Cupid Xamarin App to transform the way we watch and interact with our favorite shows using mobile phones.
December 17, 2019Dec 17, 201912/17/19Third Culture Apps build beautiful and simple, yet powerful apps using .NET and Xamarin such as Ruff, the 2019 Google Material Design Award recipient, and Appy Weather, 2019 Best of Google Play award winning apps.
May 31, 2019May 31, 201905/31/19Customer Showcase - BBVA discusses Valora View and the use of various Microsoft technologies to address business needs for a mobile app that helps customers look for houses to rent or buy using Augmented Reality, Big Data, and 2D heat map features with .NET and Xamarin.
April 23, 2019Apr 23, 201904/23/19We are excited to announce a new inclusion to our Xamarin Showcase gallery:,The Aggreko Technician App - A key objective of Aggreko’s company-wide Aggreko18 digital transformation program was to streamline field operations and revolutionize their technician processes.
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April 10, 2020Apr 10, 202004/10/20Change Tracking API + JSON will make your dev life and mobile application data sync so easy you won’t believe it’s Azure SQL.
September 24, 2019Sep 24, 201909/24/19A new developer coding challenge has emerged. Do you have what it takes to build and run a simple Xamarin app that uses Azure Functions to run tasks in the cloud? Choose to enter and you'll find yourself in a draw for some really cool prizes. Read the blog for details - your challenge awaits.
October 4, 2018Oct 4, 201810/4/18Azure's Text Analytics Service makes it easy to add sentiment analysis to our cross-platform apps. Let's see how with this to implement it in a Xamarin app!
September 6, 2018Sep 6, 201809/6/18Microsoft Cognitive Services provide a great way to get started with AI without being a machine learning or data science expert. A common favorite of cognitive services is the Custom Vision Service. The first version of this service allowed you to easily build an image classifier model that you could access either via a REST API (with an SDK available for Xamarin apps), or by downloading a model that can be run on your device using either CoreML, TensorFlow or WindowsML (we looked at using TensorFlow in an Android app in an earlier blog post).
Developers
April 10, 2020Apr 10, 202004/10/20Change Tracking API + JSON will make your dev life and mobile application data sync so easy you won’t believe it’s Azure SQL.
April 1, 2020Apr 1, 202004/1/20Find an awesome virtual Xamarin community user group, live-stream, community stand-up, or binge past events this April. If you are a user group leader we also have great resources to help you start up a virtual event for your user group. Learn more!
March 19, 2020Mar 19, 202003/19/20Developers today can already take advantage of Startup Tracing to improve the startup time of their Android apps. Today, I will show you a new feature that let's you build a custom profile to be used for your app with Startup Tracing that finely tunes and optimizes your apps startup.
March 11, 2020Mar 11, 202003/11/20Dotfuscator from PreEmptive helps .NET developers all over the globe protect their apps from reverse-engineering and hacking. Dotfuscator has been available for Xamarin developers using Visual Studio 2019 on Windows, but now with the release of Professional 6 is available on Visual Studio for Mac and cloud builds!
March 4, 2020Mar 4, 202003/4/20Repeating content and controls has never been easier by leveraging the built in Bindable Layout support in Xamarin.Forms to help create beautiful apps.
March 2, 2020Mar 2, 202003/2/20This March, discover the world of Xamarin and .NET development through in-person and virtual opportunities all month long. Explore recent news and updates with your community at local developer Meetups, or online from the comfort of your home!
February 21, 2020Feb 21, 202002/21/20AndroidX is here! Find out our plans for integration into Xamarin.Forms, Xamarin.Essentials, and beyond. Also, if you are a library creator we recommend a migration strategy for you and your users.
February 14, 2020Feb 14, 202002/14/20Join us on March 23rd, 2020 at 08:00 PST for .NET Conf: Focus on Xamarin! A one-day, live-streamed event featuring speakers from the Xamarin product team and the Xamarin community.
February 11, 2020Feb 11, 202002/11/20Today we are announcing the preview availability of our cross-platform dual-screen support for the Surface Duo and Surface Neo, two new and amazing devices coming from the Surface team!
February 7, 2020Feb 7, 202002/7/20Xamarin Showcase: BD is a leading healthcare safety and technologies company here to talk about their Diabetes Care app and vision to bring diabetes management to the 21st century. Read on to learn how it all started and what the future holds for the DC app.
DevOps
October 9, 2019Oct 9, 201910/9/19Introducing the DevOps for Mobile video series now streaming on YouTube and Channel 9. We tackle a wide range of topics including continuous integration, user interface testing, provisioning, distribution, and a lot more. We guide you through each topic with easy to follow demos, but more importantly we have conversations around each area.
January 16, 2018Jan 16, 201801/16/18 At our annual Microsoft Connect event in November, we announced the General Availability of Visual Studio App Center, combining our best developer services, incuding Xamarin Test Cloud and HockeyApp, into one free, easy-to-use cloud service to help you ship better apps, faster. From building in the cloud to automatically testing on thousands of real devices, distributing to testers and app stores, and monitoring real-time crash and analytics data, Visual Studio App Center fully supports Xamarin apps.
November 6, 2017Nov 6, 201711/6/17Education
March 2, 2020Mar 2, 202003/2/20This March, discover the world of Xamarin and .NET development through in-person and virtual opportunities all month long. Explore recent news and updates with your community at local developer Meetups, or online from the comfort of your home!
January 6, 2020Jan 6, 202001/6/20New Year, tons of awesome new ways to kick off your resolutions with Xamarin and .NET related events this January. Explore all the recent news and updates with your community at developer Meetups around the world. Including online, virtual events to watch from the comfort of your home!
November 12, 2019Nov 12, 201911/12/19This year at Microsoft Ignite the Xamarin team was everywhere! In addition to being all around the Developer Architecture Center booths, there were sessions and workshops throughout the conference - all available on-demand!
October 18, 2019Oct 18, 201910/18/19Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. This month’s Xamarin Podcast episode features a full .NET Conf 2019 recap!
October 16, 2019Oct 16, 201910/16/19Announcing a new series on Xamarin YouTube Channel called “Partly Cloudy“ with Matt Soucoup: Exploring topics around Azure, DevOps, and Xamarin to learn how to build an app from scratch - all the way through deployment to the App Stores!
October 9, 2019Oct 9, 201910/9/19Introducing the DevOps for Mobile video series now streaming on YouTube and Channel 9. We tackle a wide range of topics including continuous integration, user interface testing, provisioning, distribution, and a lot more. We guide you through each topic with easy to follow demos, but more importantly we have conversations around each area.
September 10, 2019Sep 10, 201909/10/19The Xamarin documentation portal is home to everything you need to know about building apps with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms. There you will find great quickstarts, tutorials, and deep-dive content. The docs are always updating and can easily be contributed to, so here are a few things on how to keep up with docs.
June 21, 2019Jun 21, 201906/21/19Learn how to build cross-platform mobile applications with the new Xamarin.Forms content on Microsoft Learn; A new and completely free platform where you can earn points and badges, level up, and advance your development skills.
May 6, 2019May 6, 201905/6/19The Xamarin University team has joined Microsoft Learn to incorporate many of the great features Xamarin University has, to announce building Xamarin apps in Microsoft Learn: a free and interactive learning portal.
April 18, 2019Apr 18, 201904/18/19We are excited to re-launch our Xamarin Developers YouTube channel where you will find fresh content on building amazing mobile apps directly from the Xamarin team at Microsoft. We have teamed up with our community and built a video to show off this channel.
Enterprise
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October 20, 2016Oct 20, 201610/20/16October 7, 2016Oct 7, 201610/7/16
September 28, 2016Sep 28, 201609/28/16Events
April 1, 2020Apr 1, 202004/1/20Find an awesome virtual Xamarin community user group, live-stream, community stand-up, or binge past events this April. If you are a user group leader we also have great resources to help you start up a virtual event for your user group. Learn more!
March 17, 2020Mar 17, 202003/17/20We are just one week away from the largest Xamarin digital event of the year, .NET Conf: Focus on Xamarin! Join us live on Channel 9, YouTube, & Twitch for a full day of Xamarin awesome!
March 2, 2020Mar 2, 202003/2/20This March, discover the world of Xamarin and .NET development through in-person and virtual opportunities all month long. Explore recent news and updates with your community at local developer Meetups, or online from the comfort of your home!
February 14, 2020Feb 14, 202002/14/20Join us on March 23rd, 2020 at 08:00 PST for .NET Conf: Focus on Xamarin! A one-day, live-streamed event featuring speakers from the Xamarin product team and the Xamarin community.
February 3, 2020Feb 3, 202002/3/20A full list of Xamarin and .NET developer engagements this February! Find links to our Community page, local Meetups, Github projects, and StackOverflow accounts. As well as the developer Twitter, Gitter, and Facebook pages. Read on to discover your events of interest this month.
January 6, 2020Jan 6, 202001/6/20New Year, tons of awesome new ways to kick off your resolutions with Xamarin and .NET related events this January. Explore all the recent news and updates with your community at developer Meetups around the world. Including online, virtual events to watch from the comfort of your home!
December 23, 2019Dec 23, 201912/23/19This Winter Solstice, give the Xamarin holiday challenge a spin for a chance to win awesome Xamarin swag by forking or cloning the Santa Talk repo and submitting to GitHub!
December 2, 2019Dec 2, 201912/2/19December is a wonderful time to discover Xamarin and .NET development. Explore all the latest news and updates with your community at developer events around the world, as well as find a bunch of virtual events to watch online!
November 22, 2019Nov 22, 201911/22/19The Xamarin Developer Summit was a two-day event packed full of deep technical content from the Xamarin team and amazing community members. For those that couldn’t attend, the main sessions were recorded and available today on-demand!
November 12, 2019Nov 12, 201911/12/19This year at Microsoft Ignite the Xamarin team was everywhere! In addition to being all around the Developer Architecture Center booths, there were sessions and workshops throughout the conference - all available on-demand!
Integrations
April 6, 2020Apr 6, 202004/6/20Magic Gradients is a NuGet that provide a possibility to add beautiful and enhanced gradients into Xamarin.Forms applications. Here is a quick taste of what you can do with the library using it as a separate layer or background.
March 11, 2020Mar 11, 202003/11/20Dotfuscator from PreEmptive helps .NET developers all over the globe protect their apps from reverse-engineering and hacking. Dotfuscator has been available for Xamarin developers using Visual Studio 2019 on Windows, but now with the release of Professional 6 is available on Visual Studio for Mac and cloud builds!
August 23, 2019Aug 23, 201908/23/19In this Guest Blog post learn why having in-app feedback is important to application success and how Instabug can enable a super simple way to stream line user feedback and crash reporting.
August 2, 2019Aug 2, 201908/2/19See how you can create a contact application to send an sms, email, place a phone call, and navigate to a location with just 4 lines of code with Xamarin.Essentials.
July 12, 2019Jul 12, 201907/12/19Xamarin.Essentials, your favorite cross-platform library to access native features from shared code adds new file bases APIs for sharing, email, and opening. It also adds watchOS, tvOS, and Tizen platform support in the 1.3 pre-update!
February 19, 2019Feb 19, 201902/19/19An essential part of any mobile application is the ability to persist data. Sometimes that is a large amount of data that requires a database, but often it is smaller pieces of data such as settings and preferences that need to be persisted between application launches. This is where Xamarin.Essentials can help out with its wide range of cross-platform APIs for mobile apps.
February 12, 2019Feb 12, 201902/12/19As a mobile app developer, it's great to be able to pull data from the server to our apps to provide users with a delightful experience. Of course, until your user puts their device on airplane mode or hits a rough patch with no cell reception. To provide the best user experience we need access to the current network state of our users' device. Better yet, be able to register for changes to that network state. Doing this will allow our mobile apps to react to different network conditions to provide users with instant feedback. With the connectivity API in Xamarin.Essentials, we can do just that with a few lines of code.
October 12, 2018Oct 12, 201810/12/18n a previous blog we discussed obfuscating your Xamarin application with Dotfuscator Community to protect it from reverse-engineering. That kind of protection is an important and necessary layer in your application's security posture, but it shouldn't be the only layer. The application also needs to react to threats at runtime in order to protect its own integrity, and to protect the data that it accesses.
October 4, 2018Oct 4, 201810/4/18Azure's Text Analytics Service makes it easy to add sentiment analysis to our cross-platform apps. Let's see how with this to implement it in a Xamarin app!
September 6, 2018Sep 6, 201809/6/18Microsoft Cognitive Services provide a great way to get started with AI without being a machine learning or data science expert. A common favorite of cognitive services is the Custom Vision Service. The first version of this service allowed you to easily build an image classifier model that you could access either via a REST API (with an SDK available for Xamarin apps), or by downloading a model that can be run on your device using either CoreML, TensorFlow or WindowsML (we looked at using TensorFlow in an Android app in an earlier blog post).
iOS
March 30, 2020Mar 30, 202003/30/20Many apps require adding user authentication, and this often means enabling your users to sign in their existing Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and now Apple Sign In accounts. With Xamarin.Essentials' new WebAuthenticator and using ASP.NET Core on your backend it has never been easier. Learn more!
February 28, 2020Feb 28, 202002/28/20The ability to reuse components built with Swift has become increasingly important to Xamarin developers as their popularity amongst developers continues to grow. This post describes a high-level process of binding a Swift framework. Additional information available through Microsoft documentation.
January 13, 2020Jan 13, 202001/13/20The Visual State Manager (VSM) can now change a property on any child element within scope for our new Xamarin.Forms 4.5 pre-release version.
October 24, 2019Oct 24, 201910/24/19Visual Studio App Center offers integrated and end-to-end developer services for building, managing and powering your Xamarin iOS and Android apps. Easily integrate globally scalable backend services with just a few lines of code. Automate your build, test, and distribution pipelines, while continuously monitoring real-time performance.
September 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19Today at .NET Conf 2019, we shared some exciting announcements for Xamarin and Visual Studio developers, enabling you to be more productive and use the full power, performance, and capabilities of iOS/Android in your applications.
September 13, 2019Sep 13, 201909/13/19Support for iOS 13 and Xcode 11 to accompany Apple’s Xcode Gold Master (GM) release has just been announced! Now, build your Xamarin.iOS (and Xamarin.Forms for iOS) apps with Xcode 11 GM and submit your iOS 13, tvOS 13 and watchOS 6 apps to the Apple App Store.
August 30, 2019Aug 30, 201908/30/19Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Forms deliver native iOS experiences for iOS 13 Apple which introduces dark mode: A system-wide option for light and dark themes to choose themes or allow iOS to dynamically change appearance based on the environment and time of day.
August 23, 2019Aug 23, 201908/23/19In this Guest Blog post learn why having in-app feedback is important to application success and how Instabug can enable a super simple way to stream line user feedback and crash reporting.
July 15, 2019Jul 15, 201907/15/19Guest Post: Snppts allows you to contribute your user interface designs created in Xamarin to benefit other community members and to show off your work. Contributing is as simple as creating a PR on our repository with your author and snippet information. Learn more...
July 3, 2019Jul 3, 201907/3/19Today, we are excited to share our first preview containing support for iOS 13 and Xcode 11! With today's preview, you can begin building applications using Xcode 13 and begin integrating existing new APIs for iOS 13 such as Sign in with Apple, along with support for iPadOS 13, watchOS 6, tvOS 13, and macOS 10.15.
Leadership
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January 2, 2013Jan 2, 201301/2/13macOS
April 8, 2020Apr 8, 202004/8/20Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 was released! Which brings several new features and improvements for mobile developers in Visual Studio for Mac to help you build better mobile apps, faster.
September 13, 2019Sep 13, 201909/13/19Support for iOS 13 and Xcode 11 to accompany Apple’s Xcode Gold Master (GM) release has just been announced! Now, build your Xamarin.iOS (and Xamarin.Forms for iOS) apps with Xcode 11 GM and submit your iOS 13, tvOS 13 and watchOS 6 apps to the Apple App Store.
July 3, 2019Jul 3, 201907/3/19Today, we are excited to share our first preview containing support for iOS 13 and Xcode 11! With today's preview, you can begin building applications using Xcode 13 and begin integrating existing new APIs for iOS 13 such as Sign in with Apple, along with support for iPadOS 13, watchOS 6, tvOS 13, and macOS 10.15.
June 26, 2019Jun 26, 201906/26/19Apple has been moving towards 64-bit only applications on macOS for a number of releases. Though new Xamarin.Mac applications target 64-bit by default, any existing Xamarin.Mac applications that target 32-bit must be migrated to 64-bit to continue working in the future. Learn more.
April 15, 2019Apr 15, 201904/15/19 With macOS Mojave, Apple introduced support for Hardened Runtime and Notary service. These two services are designed to improve application security on macOS. Recently Apple has stated:
“Beginning in macOS 10.14.5, all new or updated kernel extensions and all software from developers new to distributing with Developer ID must be notarized in order to run. In a future version of macOS, notarization will be required by default for all software.”
January 4, 2018Jan 4, 201801/4/18Although Xamarin technologies are most commonly used to develop mobile applications, Xamarin.Mac makes it easy to use your preferred .NET language to develop desktop Mac apps. There are many C# examples in Xamarin’s mac-samples directory on Github, but it's also easy to use F# to develop desktop Mac apps as well.
November 30, 2017Nov 30, 201711/30/17Podcasts
March 20, 2020Mar 20, 202003/20/20Keeping up with the latest in .NET, C#, Xamarin, and Azure is easier than ever. Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. In this month’s episode James and Matt pull out all the stops and really Focus on Xamarin.
March 2, 2020Mar 2, 202003/2/20This March, discover the world of Xamarin and .NET development through in-person and virtual opportunities all month long. Explore recent news and updates with your community at local developer Meetups, or online from the comfort of your home!
January 17, 2020Jan 17, 202001/17/20It’s a new decade, and in this inaugural pod of the roaring 20s, James and Matt cover some holidays hacks, and the brand new version of Xamarin.Essentials!
January 6, 2020Jan 6, 202001/6/20New Year, tons of awesome new ways to kick off your resolutions with Xamarin and .NET related events this January. Explore all the recent news and updates with your community at developer Meetups around the world. Including online, virtual events to watch from the comfort of your home!
December 20, 2019Dec 20, 201912/20/19 Keep up with the latest in .NET, C#, Xamarin, and Azure with co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno! Covering a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management.
This month’s episode we’re all about the new 4’s! Xamarin.Forms 4.4 and Visual Studio 16.4!
October 18, 2019Oct 18, 201910/18/19Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. This month’s Xamarin Podcast episode features a full .NET Conf 2019 recap!
October 16, 2019Oct 16, 201910/16/19Announcing a new series on Xamarin YouTube Channel called “Partly Cloudy“ with Matt Soucoup: Exploring topics around Azure, DevOps, and Xamarin to learn how to build an app from scratch - all the way through deployment to the App Stores!
Visual Studio
April 8, 2020Apr 8, 202004/8/20Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 was released! Which brings several new features and improvements for mobile developers in Visual Studio for Mac to help you build better mobile apps, faster.
March 16, 2020Mar 16, 202003/16/20Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 is available today and packed full of awesome new features for Xamarin developers including Hot Restart, Apply Changes, Multi-target XAML Hot Reload, faster Android startup, and tons more!
January 29, 2020Jan 29, 202001/29/20This week, Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 Preview 2 was released, bringing several new features and improvements for mobile developers in Visual Studio for Mac to help you build better mobile apps, faster.
January 23, 2020Jan 23, 202001/23/20This week, Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview 2 was released, bringing several new features and improvements for Xamarin Developers including Xamarin Hot Restart, Android apply changes, faster Android startup, XAML online documentation, and more!
January 13, 2020Jan 13, 202001/13/20The Visual State Manager (VSM) can now change a property on any child element within scope for our new Xamarin.Forms 4.5 pre-release version.
December 5, 2019Dec 5, 201912/5/19The Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 release brings major productivity enhancements including the GA release of XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms, smaller Android APKs, tooling to migrate your applications to Android X, and numerous performance and reliability improvements.
September 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19Today at .NET Conf 2019, we shared some exciting announcements for Xamarin and Visual Studio developers, enabling you to be more productive and use the full power, performance, and capabilities of iOS/Android in your applications.
September 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19Today at .NET Conf 2019, we announced Xamarin Hot Restart which enables you to test changes made to your app, including multi-file code edits, resources, and references, using a much faster build and deploy cycle.
September 18, 2019Sep 18, 201909/18/19.NET Conf: a FREE, 3-day virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft, is live-streaming to a device near you on September 23-25 with local events around the world through October! .NET Core 3.0 will also launch at .NET Conf 2019 - You won't want to miss this.
August 13, 2019Aug 13, 201908/13/19Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 Preview 2 and Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.3 Preview 2 released with major productivity enhancements: XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms, improvements to the XAML Previewer, along with support for the latest Android Q APIs.
watchOS
September 13, 2019Sep 13, 201909/13/19Support for iOS 13 and Xcode 11 to accompany Apple’s Xcode Gold Master (GM) release has just been announced! Now, build your Xamarin.iOS (and Xamarin.Forms for iOS) apps with Xcode 11 GM and submit your iOS 13, tvOS 13 and watchOS 6 apps to the Apple App Store.
July 12, 2019Jul 12, 201907/12/19Xamarin.Essentials, your favorite cross-platform library to access native features from shared code adds new file bases APIs for sharing, email, and opening. It also adds watchOS, tvOS, and Tizen platform support in the 1.3 pre-update!
July 3, 2019Jul 3, 201907/3/19Today, we are excited to share our first preview containing support for iOS 13 and Xcode 11! With today's preview, you can begin building applications using Xcode 13 and begin integrating existing new APIs for iOS 13 such as Sign in with Apple, along with support for iPadOS 13, watchOS 6, tvOS 13, and macOS 10.15.
March 20, 2019Mar 20, 201903/20/19Important changes are coming to watchOS! Checkout our support for Apple Watch Series 4 new processor architecture, ARM64_32 based on the Xamarin.iOS SDKs shipping with Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio 2019 for Mac.
September 19, 2018Sep 19, 201809/19/18Support for iOS 12 and Xcode 10 to accompany Apple’s Xcode Gold Master (GM) release has just been announced! We have also published updated documentation and samples to help you quickly get started with all the latest new features. Now, build your Xamarin.iOS (and of course Xamarin.Forms for iOS) applications with Xcode 10 GM and submit your iOS 12, tvOS 12, and watchOS 5 applications to the Apple App Store.
Xamarin
April 10, 2020Apr 10, 202004/10/20Change Tracking API + JSON will make your dev life and mobile application data sync so easy you won’t believe it’s Azure SQL.
April 8, 2020Apr 8, 202004/8/20Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 was released! Which brings several new features and improvements for mobile developers in Visual Studio for Mac to help you build better mobile apps, faster.
March 30, 2020Mar 30, 202003/30/20Many apps require adding user authentication, and this often means enabling your users to sign in their existing Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and now Apple Sign In accounts. With Xamarin.Essentials' new WebAuthenticator and using ASP.NET Core on your backend it has never been easier. Learn more!
March 27, 2020Mar 27, 202003/27/20Image Classification allows our Xamarin apps to recognize objects in a photo. This article will walkthrough how to implement using Azure's Custom Vision Service, TensorFlow Lite (an open source machine learning platform) and Xamarin.Android.
March 20, 2020Mar 20, 202003/20/20Keeping up with the latest in .NET, C#, Xamarin, and Azure is easier than ever. Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. In this month’s episode James and Matt pull out all the stops and really Focus on Xamarin.
March 19, 2020Mar 19, 202003/19/20Developers today can already take advantage of Startup Tracing to improve the startup time of their Android apps. Today, I will show you a new feature that let's you build a custom profile to be used for your app with Startup Tracing that finely tunes and optimizes your apps startup.
March 17, 2020Mar 17, 202003/17/20We are just one week away from the largest Xamarin digital event of the year, .NET Conf: Focus on Xamarin! Join us live on Channel 9, YouTube, & Twitch for a full day of Xamarin awesome!
March 16, 2020Mar 16, 202003/16/20Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 is available today and packed full of awesome new features for Xamarin developers including Hot Restart, Apply Changes, Multi-target XAML Hot Reload, faster Android startup, and tons more!
March 11, 2020Mar 11, 202003/11/20Dotfuscator from PreEmptive helps .NET developers all over the globe protect their apps from reverse-engineering and hacking. Dotfuscator has been available for Xamarin developers using Visual Studio 2019 on Windows, but now with the release of Professional 6 is available on Visual Studio for Mac and cloud builds!
March 9, 2020Mar 9, 202003/9/20The ability to reuse components built with Kotlin has become increasingly important to Xamarin developers as their popularity amongst developers continues to grow. This post describes a high-level process of binding a Kotlin framework. Additional information with a detailed walkthrough is now available at Microsoft documentation.
Xamarin.Forms
April 6, 2020Apr 6, 202004/6/20Magic Gradients is a NuGet that provide a possibility to add beautiful and enhanced gradients into Xamarin.Forms applications. Here is a quick taste of what you can do with the library using it as a separate layer or background.
April 3, 2020Apr 3, 202004/3/20Embedded fonts means no more platform-specific handling of fonts or adding font files in three different projects. In this post we will see how to use this in Xamarin.Forms 4.5.530 and up.
March 30, 2020Mar 30, 202003/30/20Many apps require adding user authentication, and this often means enabling your users to sign in their existing Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and now Apple Sign In accounts. With Xamarin.Essentials' new WebAuthenticator and using ASP.NET Core on your backend it has never been easier. Learn more!
March 25, 2020Mar 25, 202003/25/20RelativeSource is a markup extension that is used to bind a property of a given element to another property of the element itself. This articles shares examples, documentation, and more!
March 19, 2020Mar 19, 202003/19/20Developers today can already take advantage of Startup Tracing to improve the startup time of their Android apps. Today, I will show you a new feature that let's you build a custom profile to be used for your app with Startup Tracing that finely tunes and optimizes your apps startup.
March 17, 2020Mar 17, 202003/17/20We are just one week away from the largest Xamarin digital event of the year, .NET Conf: Focus on Xamarin! Join us live on Channel 9, YouTube, & Twitch for a full day of Xamarin awesome!
March 4, 2020Mar 4, 202003/4/20Repeating content and controls has never been easier by leveraging the built in Bindable Layout support in Xamarin.Forms to help create beautiful apps.
February 26, 2020Feb 26, 202002/26/20Today we are thrilled to share that Xamarin.Forms 4.5 is now available bringing you AndroidX, new capabilities for creating responsive UI, and controls "in the box" to speed your development!
February 24, 2020Feb 24, 202002/24/20In this month’s episode, there’s news about every type of Xamarin.Forms Trigger, and they cover it all. And did you know Xamarin.Forms has dual screen support for the new Surface New and Duo? Tune in to find out more!
February 21, 2020Feb 21, 202002/21/20AndroidX is here! Find out our plans for integration into Xamarin.Forms, Xamarin.Essentials, and beyond. Also, if you are a library creator we recommend a migration strategy for you and your users.
Xamarin Platform
April 8, 2020Apr 8, 202004/8/20Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 was released! Which brings several new features and improvements for mobile developers in Visual Studio for Mac to help you build better mobile apps, faster.
March 30, 2020Mar 30, 202003/30/20Many apps require adding user authentication, and this often means enabling your users to sign in their existing Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and now Apple Sign In accounts. With Xamarin.Essentials' new WebAuthenticator and using ASP.NET Core on your backend it has never been easier. Learn more!
March 17, 2020Mar 17, 202003/17/20We are just one week away from the largest Xamarin digital event of the year, .NET Conf: Focus on Xamarin! Join us live on Channel 9, YouTube, & Twitch for a full day of Xamarin awesome!
March 16, 2020Mar 16, 202003/16/20Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 is available today and packed full of awesome new features for Xamarin developers including Hot Restart, Apply Changes, Multi-target XAML Hot Reload, faster Android startup, and tons more!
February 14, 2020Feb 14, 202002/14/20Today we are happy to bring you stable AndroidX NuGet packages. Since AndroidX is a large change for your Android projects, we’ve introduced a number of ways for you to migrate your project. Learn more!
January 29, 2020Jan 29, 202001/29/20This week, Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 Preview 2 was released, bringing several new features and improvements for mobile developers in Visual Studio for Mac to help you build better mobile apps, faster.
January 15, 2020Jan 15, 202001/15/20Android App Bundle is a new app packaging format from Google for Android applications that dramatically reduces the install size for end users.
January 10, 2020Jan 10, 202001/10/20Kick start your productive new year with some tips and tricks for XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms. Such as making changes to your XAML files, saving, and instantly seeing those changes reflected on your app!
January 7, 2020Jan 7, 202001/7/20Let's take a look back at the top blog posts for Xamarin developers from 2019 packed full with new releases, exciting events, product announcements, and brand new features to boost productivity and accelerate mobile development!
December 5, 2019Dec 5, 201912/5/19The Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 release brings major productivity enhancements including the GA release of XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms, smaller Android APKs, tooling to migrate your applications to Android X, and numerous performance and reliability improvements.
XAML
April 8, 2020Apr 8, 202004/8/20Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 was released! Which brings several new features and improvements for mobile developers in Visual Studio for Mac to help you build better mobile apps, faster.
March 4, 2020Mar 4, 202003/4/20Repeating content and controls has never been easier by leveraging the built in Bindable Layout support in Xamarin.Forms to help create beautiful apps.
February 6, 2020Feb 6, 202002/6/20Learn more about how Xamarin.Forms makes setting Tab Icons super easy and how using Triggers allow you to set a property or group of properties based on the value of another property.
January 29, 2020Jan 29, 202001/29/20This week, Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 Preview 2 was released, bringing several new features and improvements for mobile developers in Visual Studio for Mac to help you build better mobile apps, faster.
January 10, 2020Jan 10, 202001/10/20Kick start your productive new year with some tips and tricks for XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms. Such as making changes to your XAML files, saving, and instantly seeing those changes reflected on your app!
