In this video, I'll show you the steps to build your first Android application in Visual Studio 2019 with C#, .NET, and Xamarin. We will see how to build a basic app and then compile and deploy using Android emulators. Show Links: Visual Studio 2019Developer DocumentationInstallation DocumentationXamarin and AzureCreate a Free Account (Azure): https://aka.ms/c9-azurefreeUseful 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

In this video, I'll show you the steps to build your first iOS application in Visual Studio 2019 with C#, .NET, and Xamarin. We will see how to build a basic app, connection to the macOS host, and deploy using the remoted iOS simulator for Windows. Show Links: Visual Studio 2019Developer DocumentationInstallation DocumentationXamarin and AzureCreate a Free Account (Azure): https://aka.ms/c9-azurefreeUseful 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

In this video, I'll show you the steps to install Visual Studio 2019, start a new project and create a basic mobile app with .NET and Xamarin for iOS and Android. Show Links: Visual Studio 2019Developer DocumentationInstallation DocumentationXamarin and AzureCreate a Free Account (Azure): https://aka.ms/c9-azurefreeUseful 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 Alexandre Costa who show us the importance of making mobile apps accessible. He talks through a non-accessible mobile app, the impact to your users, and how to easily add a few properties to make them accessible and how to test them. Show Links: Sample CodeDocumentation: Accessibility for Xamarin AppsDocumentation: Accessibility for Xamarin.FormsFind 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 Geocoding, which enables you to geocode a placemark(address) to a positional coordinate or reverse geocode coordinates to a placemark! Show Notes: Xamarin.Essentials DocumentationXamarin.Essentials Getting Started DocumentationGeocoding DocumentationSource CodeFind James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly development podcast Merge Conflict.Follow @JamesMontemagnoNever Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShowUseful Links:Xamarin Developer Center & BlogXamarin and AzureMobile DevOpsCreate a Free Account (Azure): https://aka.ms/c9-azurefree

This week, James is joined by friend of the show Amanda Chew, App Center Program Manager, shows us the latest features in App Center diagnostics for mobile applications including filtering, searching, errors vs crashes, attaching logs and events, and a lot more! She also shows us how to setup webhooks to notify chat applications when there is a new crash or open an issue on GitHub or Azure DevOps automatically. Show Links: App CenterDocumentation: App Center DiagnosticsFind James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly podcast Merge Conflict.Follow @JamesMontemagnoNever Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShowUseful Links:Xamarin Developer Center & BlogXamarin and AzureMobile DevOpsCreate a Free Account (Azure): https://aka.ms/c9-azurefree

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 resource to reuse values for things such as colors across a single page or your entire application. Show Notes: Xamarin.Forms Application Resources DocumentationFind James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly development podcast Merge Conflict.Follow @JamesMontemagnoNever Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShow

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 Open Browser, which enables you to open the system optimized browser to any web address with a single line of code! Show Notes: Xamarin.Essentials DocumentationXamarin.Essentials Getting Started DocumentationOpen Browser DocumentationSource CodeFind James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly development podcast Merge Conflict.Follow @JamesMontemagnoNever Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShow

This week, James is joined yet again by friend of the show Jonathan Peppers, Xamarin.Android engineer, shows us how to optimize image loading for Android applications when using traditional Android XML or developing with Xamarin.Forms! With GildeX you are able to speed up your app, minimize your memory footprint, and get smooth scrolling! Show Links: GitHub: HelloGlideX SampleXamarin.Android Gitter ChatFind James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly podcast Merge Conflict.Follow @JamesMontemagnoNever Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShowUseful Links:Xamarin Developer Center & BlogXamarin and AzureMobile DevOpsCreate a Free Account (Azure): https://aka.ms/c9-azurefree

Xamarin.Essentials provides developers with cross-platform APIs for their mobile applications. On this week's Essential API of the week we take a look at Accelerometer, which enables you monitor the device's accelerometer sensor, which indicates the acceleration of the device in three-dimensional space. Show Notes: Xamarin.Essentials DocumentationXamarin.Essentials Getting Started DocumentationAccelerometer DocumentationSource Code: Tilt MazeSource CodeFind James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly development podcast Merge Conflict.Follow @JamesMontemagnoNever Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShow