Xamarin Link Roundup – 16 Feb 2015

What happened in the Xamarin community last week?

Xamarin.Forms

• Platform Specific Styling with Xamarin Forms

  Customising styling in Xamarin.Forms based on platform

• Refactoring SignalR Feedback for Cross Platform with AutoFac and CommonServiceLocator for Simple Dependency Injection

  Nick talks through real world application issues

• XAML Inheritance – Jesse Liberty

• Using a full-size none-stretched background image in a Xamarin.Forms app

  Backgrounds for the win!

• Xamarin Forms Navigation: The Current State

  A deeper dive into Xamarin.Forms navigation

• An Introduction to Xamarin.Forms and SQLite

  Simple tutorial for setting up Xamarin.Forms and SQLite

• Behaviors in Xamarin.Forms | Xamarin Blog

  Great examples of implementing behaviors in Xamarin.Forms

• Image Gallery in Xamarin Forms

  Turns out there is an image gallery in XLabs

iOS

• Creating Your First Watch Kit App

  Xamarin blog covering how to start with Watch Kit

• Binding Objective-C Libraries To Xamarin | Code Mill Technologies

  Matthew Soucoup has a tutorial on binding Objective-C libraries to Xamarin

• Change Status Bar Icon and Text Colors

Android

• Xamarin’s Jonathan Pryor on Android 5 Lollipop — Visual Studio Magazine

  Xamarin’s development lead offers insights into the Android 5 Lollipop update and how the speed with which Android releases spin out affects their own releases.

Components & Tools

• Don’t Re-Invent the Wheel: Use Components or Plugins In Your AppsMayur Tendulkar

  Mayur Tendulkar highlights the importance of using components and standing on the shoulders of giants

Community

• Get a first look at Windows 10 for Phones with Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore

  Joe talks us through enhacements to Windows Phone 10

• Reporting enhancements for Windows Phone developers

  Some welcome additions to the Windows Phone reporting tools

Design

• 10 Tips for Prototyping Your Designs

• Free Vectors: Lynny Icons

  Lynny, a set of 450 iOS 7+ Tab Bar icons. Available for the great price of FREE! Use with attribution

• Free Vectors: Lulu Icons

  Free Icons. Can be used with attribution

Other

• Some considerations on asynchronous execution – CodeProject

  A discussion about what is asynchronous execution, how it relates to threads and a brief analysis of its good and bad points.

• Matt Lacey – Create better ads for your apps
• Why Should Enterprises Use Xamarin for App Development?

More Xamarin Link Blogs

Here are links to the other great Xamarin link blogs out there that are updated regularly

• Xamarin Weekly

  A free, once-weekly e-mail newsletter roundup of all things Xamarin. Posted Fridays

• Xamarin App Developer Links

  The latest tips, tutorials, news, and resources for Xamarin app developers. Posted Daily

• C# Mobile (Xamarin) Daily

  Your cross-platform C# mobile magazine. Posted Daily

• Xamarin Community Blogs

  This is an automatic aggregator which pulls articles from bloggers in the Xamarin developer community.