Weekly Mobile Newsletter - Issue 13

Released 05.06.2020.

This week's top picks!

Xamarin Forms ​

• Harmonic Interfaces with MonettelliUIKIT in Xamarin.Forms Vol 1

• Cross-Platform Libraries with Multi-Targeting for Xamarin, Uno and Windows Development

• Create your own circular progress bar using skiasharp

• Xamarin Forms 4.6

• Visual Studio for Mac Run Configurations: Running Multiple Projects at Once

• White Labeling in Xamarin Forms Applications

• Xamarin: Creating a Dark Mode Splash Screen

• Xamarin.Forms Barcodes using Fonts

• Xamarin, ARKit( Apple’s augmented reality development platform for iOS mobile devices), C#, .NET and Visual Studio for Mac

• C# Markup Snippets

• TinyMvvm 2.2 – Shell Navigation Updates

DevOps

• Improving Productivity With Devops And Microsoft Teams

• Improving Developer Experience with Multi-Targeted Visual Studio Projects

• Exporting Visual Studio App Center Data to an existing Azure Application Insights

• The Current State of OpenTelemetry in .NET

This week recommendation for reading from documentation

• Apple Pay Capabilities in Xamarin.iOS

• Complex Animations in Xamarin.Forms using Finite State Machine

Code & Samples

• Xamarin .NET 6 early preview. Not for production use.

• Xamarin.Forms | XamNike

• Vertical Slice Architecture and a Flux/Redux inspired central app state store. This is an experiments using MediatR, FluentValidation, Scrutor, MobileBlazorBindings, Xamarin.Forms, and AutoMapper.

• Example usage of the blog entry: Xamarin Month - Code Snippets: Convert Xamarin.Forms ImageSource to Native Image

• Create a nice looking COVID Tracking application using Xamarin Forms.

• Set up the Left menu and/or Right one

• Blur and Vibrancy effects for iOS and iPadOS with Xamarin.Forms

News

• Visual Studio 2019 v16.7 Preview 2 Available Today

• Microsoft Plugs Away at Blazor for Mobile in Preview 3

• Cross-Platform Libraries with Multi-Targeting for Xamarin, Uno and Windows Development​

• Introducing Local Process with Kubernetes for Visual Studio 2019

Video

• How to leverage functional programming and MVU style development to build cross-platform apps with Xamarin

• Creating a custom side menu in Xamarin.Forms using Swipe View

• All recorded sessions from MS Build 2020 (including other general announcements from Microsoft) can be found on Channel9 and Microsoft's YouTube channel.

C#

• JSON handling made easy with System.Net.Http.Json

• .NET async/await in a single picture

Other

• Building Design Systems for Apps: How and Why You Should Be Creating a Design System for Every App You Build

• Microsoft Build 2020 – Highlights

• Writing Applications, Not Web Sites, in Microsoft Blazor

• NET Core Application macOS Packaging and Notarization

Useful Links

• Open-source DEM 2.0 AssecoSee repository
• Documentation
• DEM 2.0 Roadmap
• DEM 2.0 AssecoSee AppCentar
• Release History

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