Contest: Explore Something New This Holiday with Workbooks

Cody Beyer

December 22, 2016 Xamarin Platform

Recently at Microsoft Connect(); 2016, we were excited to announce the general availability of Xamarin Workbooks. Workbooks offer an interactive coding environment that not only allows you to explore new APIs and quickly sketch out ideas, but also provides a fantastic platform for documentation. While static documentation serves as a great platform for reference, being […]

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Xamarin Dev Days Available On-Demand

Jayme Singleton

December 21, 2016 Events

What a year for Xamarin Dev Days! We worked with our amazing community members all over the globe to organize 136 Dev Days in more than 55 countries in over 20 different languages. Over 9,500 developers worldwide were able to attend our free Xamarin Dev Days event with their local developer community. To end the […]

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Simple and Intuitive App Shortcuts in Android 7.1

James Montemagno

December 20, 2016 Android

Android 7.0 Nougat just released with some great new features such as Direct Reply and Doze enhancements, and Android 7.1 is already on the way and in Developer Preview. You don’t have to wait for the new Android 7.1 (API 25) SDK to be fully released to start integrating and shipping new features today. The […]

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Android 7.1 Developer Preview Now Available

Miguel de Icaza

December 16, 2016 Android, Xamarin Platform

It was only a few months ago when Android 7.0, API 24, was released to the masses that added several new features and capabilities for developers to integrate into their applications. The next update for Android Nougat, API 25, officially titled 7.1, is currently in developer preview and now available for all Xamarin.Android developers in […]

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Build your Mobile Development Toolkit for 2017

Cormac Foster

December 16, 2016 Android, Education, iOS, Mobile Center, Workbooks, Xamarin Platform, Xamarin University

2016 was a huge year for the Xamarin team. With your help, we had our biggest, best Evolve. We joined the Microsoft family, open-sourced our software, and helped bring Xamarin to millions of new developers as part of Visual Studio (and Visual Studio for Mac!). But 2017 will be an even bigger year for mobile development, […]

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Introducing the BikeRider Xamarin.Forms Sample App

Pierce Boggan

December 14, 2016 Xamarin.Forms

At Microsoft Connect(); 2016, we demoed mobile apps for BikeSharing360, a fictional company that allows users to rent bikes located throughout New York City and Seattle. BikeRider, the consumer mobile app for BikeSharing360, is a beautiful native mobile app for iOS, Android, and Windows built with Xamarin.Forms. Today, we are happy to announce the open-sourcing […]

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Installing Xamarin Made Easy with Offline Installation

Mayur Tendulkar

December 13, 2016 Xamarin Platform

Mobile application development requires a successful installation of the correct development tools & SDKs. In the case of Xamarin, your tools will be Visual Studio 2015 and third party SDKs. As Visual Studio allows any developer to build any kind of app for any platform, while providing features like IntelliSense, code refactoring, code navigation, debugging & testing […]

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Add Yap to Your App with Bot Framework

Cody Beyer

December 12, 2016 Android, iOS, Xamarin Platform, Xamarin.Forms

An emerging trend in technology is the idea of conversational computing. Instead of issuing a series of commands via taps and clicks, commands will be extracted from natural conversations. We use conversation as an organic way to interact with analog world, and Xamarin makes it easy to add a native conversational interface to the digital world […]

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Vehicle Smart Solves an Everyday Problem with Five-Star Xamarin Apps

Lacey Butler

December 8, 2016 Case Studies, Education, Xamarin Platform, Xamarin.Forms

From life-saving technology to small daily conveniences, mobile developers everywhere are creating apps that make our lives easier, better, and safer. Vehicle Smart, for example, allows UK residents to quickly […]

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Google Awareness API for Android: Query and React to Signals

James Montemagno

December 7, 2016 Android, Xamarin Platform

Google Play services offers a plethora of amazing APIs for developers to integrate into their iOS and Android applications. For Android developers, specifically, there are several more APIs available that […]

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