12 May 2016 / XAMARIN

Xamarin Link Roundup – 11 May 2016

More fantastic links from around the community!

Xamarin.Forms

Jason Smith’s Xamarin Forms Performance Tips – Jason Smith’s Xamarin Forms Performance Tips
Scaffolding Xamarin.Forms Pages with DataPages | Xamarin Blog – An introduction to Xamarin.Forms data pages on the Xamarin Blog
Xamarin Evolve 2016 App Development Retrospective – @JamesMontemagno shares the highs, lows and lessons learnt creating the #XamarinEvolve app.
Xamarin.Forms XAML Previewer Design Time Data – @JamesMontemagno shows how to integrate design time data into the new XAML Previewer!
A very small pub/sub solution for Xamarin Forms – A very small pub/sub solution for Xamarin Forms
Xamarin Forms Deep Linking and App Indexing with AppLinks – App indexing and deep linking in the Xamarin world

Detailed Look At Whats New in Xamarin.iOS for Visual Studio – Adam Pedley gives the rundown of what’s new for Xamarin.iOS for Visual Studio
Tools – iOSStack – IOSStack lists out some cool tools to make your Mobile development life easier.

Using Google Place Picker For Android – Ruben Macias shows how to use the PlacePicker from the Google Places API in Xamarin.Android.

Introducing Realm Xamarin – Realm is a mobile database: a replacement for SQLite & Core Data – Realm mobile database release for Xamarin. Sounds super exciting!
NuGet gold nuggets – packages which are in my almost every Xamarin project – Gerald Versluis shares a list of NuGet Nuggets
Using iOS and 1Writer as a Presentation Assistant – Greg Shackles shows a cool workflow and a nice tool for presenters
Getting Started with VSTS and Xamarin – Richard Woollcott has started a blog series on Mobile DevOps with VSTS / XS / Hockey / Test Cloud
Announcing HttpClientDiagnostics – Geoffrey Huntley – HttpClientDiagnostics is a cross platform, portable class library that provides tracing/logging telemetry of Microsoft.Net.HttpClient requests.

Snippet Essentials – Because you can never have enough Snippets – Snippet Essentials
Azure App Services and Xamarin – Get started with Azure App Services and Xamarin with this tutorial.

From Sketch to App: A Design to Development Workflow – David Ortinau continues his #XamarinEvolve discussion on Design to Development workflow.
7 Tips for Creating Engaged, Informed Users – DZone Mobile – 7 tips for creating great mobile app onboarding experiences