Weekly Mobile Newsletter - Issue 12

Released 29.05.2020.

Hey everyone, have a great weekend with a lot of new links!

Xamarin Forms ​

• Xamarin.Forms Rebranding Survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9HKWRBV

• .NET MAUI and Xamarin.Forms 5 from Microsoft Build 2020 https://gist.github.com/davidortinau/9725f15eda9b43494a2b2f425b2ce432

• The future of Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms & .NET MAUI https://codetraveler.io/zurich-meetup/

• Fiddler for Xamarin Devs https://www.telerik.com/blogs/fiddler-for-xamarin-developers

• Shrink Your Android App Size with One Setting https://montemagno.com/shrink-your-android-app-size-with-one-setting/

• Replicating Burger UI App in Xamarin Forms https://askxammy.com/replicating-burger-ui-app-in-xamarin-forms/

• [Xamarin.Forms] C# Markup Extensions https://javiersuarezruiz.wordpress.com/2020/05/25/xamarin-forms-c-markup-extensions/

• Not really a goodbye to Xamarin – One .Net and MAUI https://xamlabs.com/2020/05/24/xamarin-and-maui

• Using Data Binding in Xamarin Applications https://www.twilio.com/blog/using-data-binding-in-xamarin-applications

• Setting up a Xamarin.Forms WPF backend on .NET Core https://dev.to/krdmllr/setting-up-a-xamarin-forms-wpf-backend-on-net-core-109l

• Using ReactiveUI With Xamarin Forms https://doumer.me/using-the-reactive-mvvm-framework-reactiveui-with-xamarin-forms/

• Model-View-Update (MVU) – How Does It Work? https://thomasbandt.com/model-view-update

• Custom Image ProgressBar using SkiaSharp Part1 https://itnext.io/custom-image-progressbar-using-skiasharp-part1-3e0b6d230058

• Xamarin Forms turns to .NET MAUI – single project and code-base dev experience https://gunnarpeipman.com/dotnet-maui-announced

DevOps

• Azure Pipeline YAML Generator! https://damienaicheh.github.io/tools/2020/05/26/tool-yaml-generator-en.html

• Tracking Our Roadmaps with ProductPlan https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/DevOps-Lab/Tracking-Our-Roadmaps-with-ProductPlan

• Don't Repeat Yourself (App Center/Azure DevOps) https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Partly-Cloudy/Dont-Repeat-Yourself-App-CenterAzure-DevOps

• Mobile DevOps Videos https://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/mobile-devops

• New OSS C# Project Checklist https://github.com/StephenCleary/Docs/blob/master/libraries/README.md

This week recommendation for reading from documentation

• Reuse Xamarin.Forms Pages in an iOS Extension https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/ios-extension-xamarin-forms/

• Xamarin + Cognitive services challenge - mix some Azure Cog Svcs into an app https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/quickstarts/speech-to-text-from-microphone

Code & Samples

• Shapes https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/pull/9264

• Xamarin Cross Platform Exposure Notification API and Samples https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin.exposurenotification

• Xamarin.Forms bingo game that plays itself https://github.com/codemillmatt/quarantine-bingo?ocid=AID2428811&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTm1Zek1XUXdaamRsTkRObCIsInQiOiJ6am9GUGNOQVZsVjdPT2RxSHU1SlhoTUJ6QUEyVVFOUmd2d01lN0Z2TFhXUHFOSlVnN1pHSWtcL0RwUzJ6SU5OSWpnVm5waDVOZTJlbjcwNkdXYUM4NjA3Tm1sTHh6TFBKaHRrMFVqOVRlQWFTXC94YmlpSFdHWGFIMzRjUEZHMlBKT21wME5HeTVRZmZaYlV6RHBUalQyZz09In0%3D

News

​* May update: BlinkInput mobile SDK Xamarin https://microblink.com/blog/may-update-blinkinput-mobile-sdk

• Announcing Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings for Xamarin May update https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/announcing-experimental-mobile-blazor-bindings-may-update/

• Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.6 is now available https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-2019-for-mac-version-8-6-is-now-available/

• Apple Releases iOS 13.5 with Exposure Notification Beta and Best Practices Sample App https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/05/iOS-13-5-exposure-notification/

Video

• The future of Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms & .NET MAUI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3rX9hrN1Y0&feature=youtu.be

• The Xamarin Q&A recording is now available! https://mybuild.microsoft.com/sessions/c1d6f1b2-49df-4834-b9bc-0f8e194c03b2?source=sessions&WT.mc_id=XamarinFormsExpertsPanel-codetraveler-bramin

• SwipeView - Swipe It All Away | The Xamarin Show https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/XamarinShow/SwipeView-Swipe-It-All-Away--The-Xamarin-Show

C#

• Exciting new features in C# 9 https://thomaslevesque.com/2020/05/25/exciting-new-features-in-csharp-9/

Other

• Modern Touch-Friendly Design https://addyosmani.com/blog/touch-friendly-design/

• Periodic Table Augmented Reality Proof of Concept and Code Explanation https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/periodic-table-augmented-reality-proof-concept-code-lee/

• Five Features a Next-Generation Mobile Bank Needs to Survive https://www-financemagnates-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.financemagnates.com/fintech/five-features-a-next-generation-mobile-bank-needs-to-survive/amp

• GitHub Mobile App Released https://build5nines.com/github-mobile-app-released/

• Introducing Project Tye https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/introducing-project-tye/

• In February 2020 nearly 65,000 developers told us how they learn and level up, which tools they’re using, and what they want. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020

Documentation

Uppercase

Just add $! before translation key in translate extension, and your translation will display in uppercase.

 <Button Text="{ext:Translate ($!accountdata_change_nickname)}" />

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Useful Links

• Learn more about Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms & Cross-platform development https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/xamarin/cross-platform

• Xamarin Developer Center https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/?

• Xamarin Blog https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/

• Microsoft Learn Self-Guided Training https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/browse/?term=xamarin

• Xamarin Developers YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/xamarindevelopers

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