Writing code that sets the properties of user interface controls to the required data is a tried-and-tested technique for wiring a user interface (UI) to a data source, but can result in having to write lengthy and repetitive code to ensure that the UI is correctly synchronized. Writing code to wire a user interface to …

It doesn’t matter if you’re on a Windows or a macOS machine, you have access to amazing IDEs to build iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows apps and libraries with Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio. But, what if you could take all of your code on the go and with you everywhere you go? What if …

People learn in different ways. Some people like to learn a new API framework by reading a big book; for those people I’ve written Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms with 28 chapters available as a free download to help you to get started building mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows today. Other programmers—particularly those …

Xamarin.Forms ships with over 40 pages, layouts, and controls for you to mix-and-match to build great native cross-platform user interfaces. One of my favorite features of Xamarin.Forms is that we have access to 100% of the controls and APIs for iOS, Android, and Windows. For implementing platform-specific features such as geolocation or bluetooth, we can …

Speech is increasingly becoming a big part of building modern mobile applications. Users expect to be able to interact with apps through speech, so much so that speech is developing into a user interface itself. iOS contains multiple ways for users to interact with their mobile device through speech, mainly via Siri and Keyboard Dictation. …

Azure Functions enable developers to create a serverless, event-driven experience for their data and applications. In our first post on Azure Functions, we saw how to have an Azure Function perform an OCR of an image and insert it into an Azure Mobile table. Today, we’re going to take a look at turning Azure Functions …

We recently held Xamarin’s first ever Mobile Leaders Summit at Xamarin Evolve 2016. Mobility leaders from global organizations, top analysts, and industry experts convened to learn and share best practices around enterprise mobility and achieving business success through mobile transformation. We released the first of the sessions here, and the second one here. The Summit …

Xamarin.Forms makes it fast, easy, and fun to create cross-platform mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows. When combined with Visual Studio 2015, the most powerful development environment, developers can be massively productive. From a single IDE, developers can build apps that run on any device, from mobile to IoT devices to the cloud. Apart …

The rise of smartphones and changing user behavior over the past seven years have forced organizations to start delivering more and more mobile solutions, with apps a big part of this. There are unique challenges when it comes to enterprise mobile app delivery, however. The ecosystem is fragmented, yet users continue to have high expectations. …