Articles filed in category 'Xamarin'

In this post I look at what .NET Standard is, how it works and what some of the surrounding issues and impacts are for the .NET eco system.

You can avoid all that pesky overhead when dealing with multiple platforms by using Microsoft’s library of APIs, Xamarin.Forms. Wei-Meng shows you how to efficiently map to the various platforms’ respective native UI elements at run time.

There’s no longer a simple answer to what sort of device your page will be viewed upon. Walt examines the options and shows you how to make sure that yours will look great on anything, old or new.

Xamarin.Forms are an essential tool for building a mobile app if you want it to be truly useful (and successful). Walt makes cross-platform development as simple as possible using this tool.

Wei-Meng gives us a step-by-step guide to making seamless cross-platform mobile apps with Xamarin.

Vassili extends his own custom scripting language for mobile development and makes creating and placing widgets fast and easy.

As part of his series, Walt dives deeply into Xamarin.Forms and roots around in the details of the object model.

If you need access to native platforms, you’re going to want to see what Ryan has to say about Xamarin.Forms. He’ll show you that migration isn’t the pain you thought it might be.

Walt continues his series of articles on Xamarin, this time, exploring the nature of pages. You’ll learn what a page is, how to navigate among them, how to create sub-pages, and strategies for loading data onto pages.

You can use Xamarin to directly access native iOS APIs and still take advantage of what you know about C# and the .NET Framework. Jason shows us just how easy it is.

Want a great way to tell prospective customers or conference attendees that you’re open for business? Wei-Meng explains how iBeacons work, tells you how to build one, and shows you many clever uses for iOS and Android mobile devices.

If you’ve been putting off using VS on the Mac, you’ll be excited by Ben’s experience with the new release. It’s got all the whistles and bells you know and love and it makes some tasks even easier than you’d expect.

Xamarin has a new version of their Cross-Platform Mobile Development tool out, and Jason takes you on a tour of all the great new features.

In the next article of his series on Xamarin, Walt takes a look at the all-important UI and how to make it work best for the development process and the user.

These days, you can’t target only one platform with your innovative apps. They have to look good on many types of devices and operating systems. Sahil looks at how Xamarin and Cordova translate into native apps and how you can use a combination to build even more versatile systems than ever before.