Xamarin.Essentials provides developers with cross-platform APIs for their mobile applications. On this week's Xamarin.Essential API of the week we take a look at the Compass API to enable you to monitor the device's compass sensor to read the magnetic north heading. Show Notes: Xamarin.Essentials DocumentationXamarin.Essentials Getting Started DocumentationCompass DocumentationSource CodeFind James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly development podcast Merge Conflict.Follow @JamesMontemagnoNever Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShowUseful Links:Learn more about Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms, & Cross-platform developmentXamarin Developer Center & BlogMicrosoft Learn Self-Guided TrainingCreate a Free Account (Azure)Xamarin Developers YouTube ChannelXamarin on Twitter

This week, James is joined by friend of the show Salma Ali from Instabug shows off a how to easily integrate Instabug into your Xamarin applications for bug reporting, user feedback, surveys, in-app chat, feature requests, and so much more. You don't want to miss out on this episode! Xamarin Show viewers can get 20% off all Instabug's plans with coupon code: XAMARINSHOW Show Links: Getting Started with InstabugInstabug Documentation for XamarinFind James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly podcast Merge Conflict.Follow @JamesMontemagnoNever Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShowUseful Links:Learn more about Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms, & Cross-platform developmentXamarin Developer Center & BlogMicrosoft Learn Self-Guided TrainingCreate a Free Account (Azure)Xamarin Developers YouTube ChannelXamarin on Twitter

Xamarin.Essentials provides developers with cross-platform APIs for their mobile applications. On this week's Xamarin.Essential API of the week we take a look at the Version Tracking API to enable you track the current and past version number and code. Additionally, this API provided many helpers to detect if it is it first time the user has run the current or specific version of the app. Show Notes: Xamarin.Essentials DocumentationXamarin.Essentials Getting Started DocumentationVersion Tracking DocumentationSource CodeFind James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly development podcast Merge Conflict.Follow @JamesMontemagnoNever Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShowUseful Links:Learn more about Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms, & Cross-platform developmentXamarin Developer Center & BlogMicrosoft Learn Self-Guided TrainingCreate a Free Account (Azure)Xamarin Developers YouTube ChannelXamarin on Twitter

This week, James is joined by friend of the show & Microsoft MVP Nico Vermeir shows off a Visual Studio that will change our life.... XAML Styler. It is the ultimate styling tool to help you make your XAML for Xamarin.Forms super pretty! **Shortly after we recorded the Visual Studio for Mac version of XAML styler was released! Check it out: https://github.com/Xavalon/XamlStyler** Show Links: XAML Styler on Visual Studio MarketplaceXAML Styler on GitHubFind James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly podcast Merge Conflict.Follow @JamesMontemagnoNever Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShowUseful Links:Learn more about Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms, & Cross-platform developmentXamarin Developer Center & BlogMicrosoft Learn Self-Guided TrainingCreate a Free Account (Azure)Xamarin Developers YouTube ChannelXamarin on Twitter

Join the Xamarin team as we unveil all of the new features in Xamarin.Forms 4.0. During the live stream you will hear from the Xamarin.Forms team themselves including David Ortinau, Samantha Houts, Shane Neuville, and Stephane Delcroix who will walk through fast renderers, updates to image source, tab index, accessibility, community contributions, and the brand new Shell! This live stream is interactive and will be hosted by Xamarin PM James Montemagno who will be taking questions from you throughout the entire stream. Learn more about Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms, & Cross-platform developmentXamarin Developer Center & BlogMicrosoft Learn Self-Guided TrainingCreate a Free Account (Azure)Xamarin Developers YouTube ChannelXamarin on Twitter

Let's take a step back in a new mini-series that I like to call Xamarin.Forms 101. In each episode we will walk through a basic building block of Xamarin.Forms to help you build awesome cross-platform iOS, Android, and Windows applications in .NET. This week we will look at how to use dynamic resources to change the value of a resource while the application is running! Show Notes: Xamarin.Forms Application Resources DocumentationXamarin.Forms 101: Application ResourcesFind James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly development podcast Merge Conflict.Follow @JamesMontemagnoNever Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShowUseful Links: Learn more about Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms, & Cross-platform developmentXamarin Developer Center & BlogMicrosoft Learn Self-Guided TrainingCreate a Free Account (Azure)Xamarin Developers YouTube ChannelXamarin on Twitter

This week, James is joined by friend of the show & Microsoft MVP Morten Nielsen who introduces us to the world of advanced mapping with ArcGIS for .NET and Xamarin. Morten walks us through what ArcGIS is, how developers can build and use custom maps and data in mobile apps, and awesome 3D visualizations on maps. Show Links: ArcGIS Runtime SDK for .NETArcGISFind James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly podcast Merge Conflict.Follow @JamesMontemagnoNever Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShowUseful Links:Learn more about Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms, & Cross-platform developmentXamarin Developer Center & BlogMicrosoft Learn Self-Guided TrainingCreate a Free Account (Azure)Xamarin Developers YouTube ChannelXamarin on Twitter

Xamarin.Essentials provides developers with cross-platform APIs for their mobile applications. On this week's Xamarin.Essential API of the week we take a look at the difference between the Preferences API part of Xamarin.Essentials and Xamarin.Forms' Application Properties. He shows off how they work, when would you want to use one over the other, and how do you get started. Show Notes: Xamarin.Essentials DocumentationXamarin.Essentials Getting Started DocumentationPreferences DocumentationSource CodeFind James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly development podcast Merge Conflict.Follow @JamesMontemagnoNever Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShowUseful Links:Learn more about Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms, & Cross-platform developmentXamarin Developer Center & BlogMicrosoft Learn Self-Guided TrainingCreate a Free Account (Azure)Xamarin Developers YouTube ChannelXamarin on Twitter

This week, James is joined by friend of the show & Microsoft MVP Geoffrey Huntley who show us how Refit can greatly simplify HTTP calls in mobile apps or any .NET application. He shows us how to integrate it into our apps, how it works, and how to do authentication too! Show Links: GitHub: RefitHanselman Blog on RefitFind James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly podcast Merge Conflict.Follow @JamesMontemagnoNever Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShowUseful Links:Learn more about Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms, & Cross-platform developmentXamarin Developer Center & BlogMicrosoft Learn Self-Guided TrainingCreate a Free Account (Azure)Xamarin Developers YouTube ChannelXamarin on Twitter

Xamarin.Essentials provides developers with cross-platform APIs for their mobile applications. On this week's Xamarin.Essential API of the week we take a look at the Detect Shake API to help you detect when a user shakes a device. Show Notes: Xamarin.Essentials DocumentationXamarin.Essentials Getting Started DocumentationDetect Shake DocumentationSource CodeFind James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly development podcast Merge Conflict.Follow @JamesMontemagnoNever Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShowUseful Links:Learn more about Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms, & Cross-platform developmentXamarin Developer Center & BlogMicrosoft Learn Self-Guided TrainingCreate a Free Account (Azure)Xamarin Developers YouTube ChannelXamarin on Twitter