Xamarin Link Roundup – 15 Aug 2013
News and Events
- Gartner Recognizes Xamarin as Mobile Visionary – Nat Friedman
- Azure Notification Hubs released (broadcast push for Windows 8, Windows Phone, iOS and Android) – Scott Guthrie
- Xamarin iOS Designer and Storyboards – Part 1 – Lance Bullock
- August Xamarin Webinars – Rich Taylor. Here is a list of the upcoming Xamarin webcasts.
- Webinar Recording: C# Async on iOS and Android – Miguel de Icaza, and Craig Dunn teach us about C# async and await. Slides from the session are here and here. Code samples here
Components
- Slide Down Menu – Alex Blount provides a sweet looking menu in the Xamarin Component direcctory. It’s free and looks great. It’s also on github
- Using Auth0 with Xamarin – tutorial provided by Auth0 on how to integrate with Xamarin (iOS and Android)
- Introducing the Google Play Services Component for Xamarin.Android – Tom Opgenorth
- ProgressButton for Xamarin.Android – James Montemagno. Also check out his MonoDroidToolkit on GitHub
Interesting Code
- Controls implemented in C# for MonoTouch – Github – Eduardo Scoz
- Using async/await, system.net.http.httpclient, and mvvmcross in Wp8, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.IOS – Ryan, Neue Objective blog
- Transitioning to Xamarin from Objective-C – Mike Bluestein
- MonoAndroid: Using TabHost in your Mobile Application – ThatsAlok on Code Project
- Creating Custom UITableViewCell’s with MonoTouch – the correct way – Alex York
- Using Extension Methods on a C# Interface to Enable DCI in Xamarin – Larry O’Brien
Design
- iOS 7 Color Swatches – Louie Mantia
Other Stuff
- Android Fragmentation Visualized – OpenSignal.
- Ouya and MonoGame – Ouya Devs
- Test your app with temporary, test data before you ship – Adam Denning
- Creating a UI for Background Transfer Requests – Adam Denning
- iOS vs Android, Great Balls of Fire – Russell Ivanovic
- Background Thread? Let me count the ways…. – Rob Philpott
- Beware the perils of async/await in application lifecycle event handlers (in fact in any event handlers) – Andy Wigley