Weekly Mobile Newsletter - Issue 10

Released 15.05.2020.

Stay safe and have a great weekend and most of all, Happy Build!!

Xamarin Forms ​

• Here’s the World’s First and Only UI Controls for Xamarin.Forms WPF | Syncfusion Blogs https://www.syncfusion.com/blogs/post/heres-the-worlds-first-and-only-ui-controls-for-xamarin-forms-wpf.aspx/
• Creating Native iOS & Android Apps in C# https://codetraveler.io/xamarin-msp/
• Replicating Flight UI: Preparing the project to work with MVVM (Part 1 & 2) https://askxammy.com/part-1-replicating-flight-ui-preparing-the-project-to-work-with-mvvm/ & https://askxammy.com/part-2-replicating-flight-ui-working-with-the-xaml/
• Links preview in Xamarin Forms https://xamvalentine.com/2020/05/07/links-preview-control-for-xamarin-forms/
• Implementation of the Cognitive Services + Xamarin Combo Challenge! (How to use Azure Speech-to-Text & Bing Photo Search with Xamarin) https://medium.com/@benetskyybogdan/implementation-of-the-cognitive-services-xamarin-combo-challenge-6e78517c89c9
• iOS and macOS Dark Mode Dynamic Colors Overview https://blog.verslu.is/xamarin/ios-macos-dark-mode-dynamic-colors-overview/
• Xamarin.Forms.Keyboard: The Master Guide https://andyp.dev/posts/xamarin-forms-essentials-keyboard-master-guide

DevOps

• Generate an universal Apk from your Android App Bundle using Azure DevOps https://damienaicheh.github.io/xamarin/azure/devops/2020/05/05/universal-apk-from-aab-with-azure-devops-en.htm
• Introducing GitHub Issues Integration https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2020/05/06/github-issues-integration

This week recommendation for reading from documentation

• Shell Quick Tip – Passing Data When Navigating https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms-shell-query-parameters/
• Generics in Xamarin.Forms XAML - Xamarin https://docs.microsoft.com/sr-cyrl-rs/xamarin/xamarin-forms/xaml/generics
• Surface Duo Emulator image update and open-source access to libraries https://devblogs.microsoft.com/surface-duo/surface-duo-emulator-image-update-and-open-source-access-to-libraries/

Code & Samples

• OpenTok video chat for XamarinForms https://github.com/AndreiMisiukevich/OpenTok-Xamarin.Forms & https://medium.com/@bertuzzi/o-x-do-xamarin-forms-videoconferência-com-opentok-79f7ade22d43
• Cross platform Xamarin plugin to play and control Audio and Video https://github.com/Baseflow/XamarinMediaManager
• XamarinForms (with Expander) + CardsView + PancakeView https://github.com/AndreiMisiukevich/AvengersCards

News ​

• First peek at XF 4.7 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/release-notes/4.7/4.7.0-pre1#whats-new-in-this-release
• Dotfuscator 6: The Next Era of Dotfuscator https://www.preemptive.com/blog/article/1197-dotfuscator-6-the-next-era-of-dotfuscator/90-dotfuscator
• Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 6 released May 07, 2020 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-preview#16.6.0-pre.6.0

Video

• Process of creating a movie trailer app https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLJe5yxq_7o&feature=youtu.be
• Xamarin.Forms 101: Intro to CollectionView and RefreshView https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/XamarinShow/XamarinForms-101-Intro-to-CollectionView-and-RefreshView
• UI Challenge: Let's do some fancy UI - Coffee or Tasks https://www.twitch.tv/videos/619947558

C#

• Writing More Succinct C# https://www.danclarke.com/2020-more-succinct-csharp
• New 'Source Generators' Stir Up the C# Crowd https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2020/05/12/source-generators.aspx

Other

• Azure messaging services documentation https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/messaging-services/
• Cut & paste your surroundings to Photoshop https://arcopypaste.app/ & https://github.com/cyrildiagne/ar-cutpaste
• Whiteboarding and Brainstorming in Microsoft Teams https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/whiteboarding-and-brainstorming-in-microsoft-teams/ba-p/1353554?_lrsc=3d68148e-2dd4-4c70-b1e3-5d014f0426bb
• Building a Progressive Web App with Blazor https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/building-a-progressive-web-app-with-blazor/
• Reactive Native for Windows and Mac https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/

Events

• MSBuild Spekar Highlights https://mybuild.microsoft.com/?wt.mc_id=AID3012518_QSG_SCL_428893&ocid=AID3012518_QSG_SCL_428893&utm_medium=Owned%20%26%20Operated&utm_campaign=FY20_Microsoft%20Build%20

Virtual Xamarin and .NET Events in May

Check out the latest virtual events, streams, and videos to watch this May – all from the comfort of home.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/virtual-may-xamarin-dotnet-events/

Documentation

Resorce.designer.cs

Every time I checkout on another branch a new change is automatically applied to Resorce.designer.cs. Does this issue seem familiar to you?

Try adding

<AndroidUseIntermediateDesignerFile>True</AndroidUseIntermediateDesignerFile>

to the Android head's .csproj - this should make the designer file autogenerate in the obj folder and you can then just delete the designer file from the project

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