Weekly Mobile Newsletter - Issue 9

Released 08.05.2020.

Happy Friday and enjoy in links!

Events

Virtual Xamarin and .NET Events in May https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/virtual-may-xamarin-dotnet-events/

Xamarin Forms ​

• Xamarin is the Best Choice for Bluetooth Mesh Networks https://www.msctek.com/xamarin-is-the-best-choice-for-bluetooth-mesh-networks/
• Animate Anything with Xamarin.Forms https://montemagno.com/animate-anything-with-xamarin-forms/amp
• SomeTips: Best practices for UI Handling! https://askxammy.com/sometips-best-practices-for-ui-handling/
• Xamarin.Forms Custom Fonts Simplified & Everywhere https://montemagno.com/xamarin-forms-custom-fonts-everywhere/
• Removing xaml.cs with C# Source Generators https://michaelesteves.co.za/blog/removing-xaml-cs-with-c-source-generators/
• Automatic Dark Theme with Xamarin.Forms https://mikegrant.org.uk/2020/05/03/automatic-dark-mode.html
• Icon fonts made easy https://dansiegel.net/post/2020/05/07/icon-fonts-made-easy
• Contact Sharing in Xamarin Forms https://xamgirl.com/contact-sharing-in-xamarin-forms/

DevOps

• Crashes and errors analytics with App Center and Application Insights https://johnthiriet.com/crashes-and-errors-app-center-application-insights-errors/
• Creating and Packaging a .NET Standard library https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/creating-and-packaging-net-standard-library/?ocid=3006539&MC=CSHARP&MC=.NET&MC=Vstudio

This week recommendation for reading from documentation

• Exposure Notification API Support for Xamarin Apps https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/contact-tracing-exposure-notification-api/
• Create a circle on a Map, without using a custom renderer https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/map/polygons#create-a-circle
• Xamarin.Forms C# markup https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/csharp-markup
• Open and close a SwipeView programmatically https://docs.microsoft.com/sr-cyrl-rs/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/swipeview#open-and-close-a-swipeview-programmatically
• SearchBar style on iOS https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/platform/ios/searchbar-style

Code & Samples

• Xamarin.Forms Core Gallery redesign https://github.com/jsuarezruiz/Xamarin.Forms-Gallery
• This is a simple COVID-19 Tracker mobile app available for iOS and Android https://github.com/gabrielfreire/IMSCovid19Tracker
• CoordinatorLayout for Xamarin.Forms https://github.com/mariusmuntean/CoordinatorLayout.Forms
• Communication between Watch and iDevice https://github.com/Clancey/WormHoleSharp

News ​

• Samsung will launch a Samsung Pay debit card this summer https://mashable.com/article/samsung-pay-credit-card-so-fi/
• Google and Apple Publish Exposure Notification API Draft https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/05/google-apple-exposure-covid-api

Video

• Xamarin Mobile Development for ASP.NET Developers https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/dotnetConf/Focus-on-Xamarin/Xamarin-Mobile-Development-for-ASPNET-Developers?ocid=3006539&MC=MobileDev&MC=Vstudio&MC=.NET&MC=CloudDev&MC=CSHARP
• Adaptive UI with Xamarin Forms https://youtu.be/KpWpfi_4Rrg
• Xamarin.Forms 101: Basic Animations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIfz77Oerz4
• Play Audio in Xamarin Forms | Complete Music Player App | Xamarin Forms Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7plenjrcloM&feature=youtu.be

C#

• Exception Helper – Rethrown Exceptions https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/exception-helper-rethrown-exceptions/
• C# Source Generators: Less Boilerplate Code, More Productivity https://www.dontcodetired.com/blog/post/C-Source-Generators-Less-Boilerplate-Code-More-Productivity
• Ping a Server Using C# https://khalidabuhakmeh.com/ping-a-server-using-csharp

Other

• Share like a native app with the Web Share API https://web.dev/web-share/
• A collection of awesome .NET core libraries, tools, frameworks and software https://github.com/thangchung/awesome-dotnet-core
• Creating Flexible Queries with Parameters in GraphQL https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2020/05/04/flexible-graphql-queries.aspx?m=1
• Mobile First, free online book http://mobile-first.abookapart.com/

Documentation

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