Xamarin Link Roundup – 2 Feb 2015

What happened in the Xamarin community during the last week?

Xamarin.Forms

• Gesture Recognizers with Xamarin.Forms

  Rob Gibbens talks about adding Gesture Recognizers with Xamarin.Forms

• End to End Mvvm with Xamarin

  Rob Gibbens walks through a full MVVM connected sample app

• Xamarin forms: Check network connectivity in iOS and Android

  Code Project article on how to check network connectivity in Xamarin.Forms

• Improvements in Xamarin.Forms 1.3

  Eric Sink looks at some performance improvements in Xamarin Forms 1.3

• Learn Barcode Scanning in Xamarin.Forms

  Using the Dependency Service to access platform specific Barcode scanning functionality

• Handling Orientation Changes in Xamarin.Forms Apps

  Chris Sells talks about handling orientation in Xamarin.Forms app

• Xamarin Forms contacts search

  Contacts search page in Xamarin.Forms

• Exploring Xamarin.Forms 1.3: Properties Dictionary

  Xamarin.Forms 1.3 includes a way to do simple state persistence between app restarts and when suspending/resuming.

• The often overlooked Xamarin.forms scale property

  Mitch Milam discovers the Scale Property

• Xamarin Forms, Android and images – things to remember

  If you are using Xamarin Forms for your next awesome cross-platform mobile app, there are things you need to remember when dealing with images for Android

• Xamarin Forms for Windows Phone Devs – Using the MVVM Pattern

  Using MVVM Light in a Xamarin Forms

• Thinking About MVVM and View Models

  Nick throws a View Model into his app

• Xamarin Forms StackLayout Recipe

  Adam over at the Syntax Is My UI blog covers the Xamarin Forms Stack Layout with this StackLayout recipe.

• A Xamarin.Forms Infinite Scrolling ListView

  A solution to infinite scrolling lists

• Xamarin Forms – A light status bar for iOS

  Creating a light status bar in iOS

• Xamarin Forms–Using background images on iOS

  Full screen background images with a navigation bar

• Xamarin Forms Navigation–Dealing with Login

  Implementing login navigations with xamarin forms

• Launching the Native Map App from Xamarin.Forms

  Chris Sells uses custom URL’s to handle launching maps cross platform from Xamarin.Forms apps

Windows Phone

• Windows Phone MVVM Light: NavigationService CanGoBack

  Josh Morales discusses the back button and MVVM Light

• Enabling Xamarin.Forms with MVVMCross on Windows Phone | form().follows().function()

Android

• Changing from Map property to GetMapAsync() on MapFragment

  Tomasz blogs about changing map property to GetMapAsync()

• Pager Sliding Tab Strip for Xamarin.Andorid Material Design

  PagerSlidingTabStrip-for-Xamarin.Android – Port of Pager Sliding Tab Strip for Xamarin.Andorid Material Design

• Custom Android Navigation Drawer Items in Xamarin

  Customizing the Android navigation drawer

Cross Platform

• Force iOS, Android, & WP to Landscape

  How to force your app into landscape orientation on the different platforms

• Xamarin Push Notifications using Azure Notifications Hub

  Josue Yeray Julian Ferreiro – How to use Azure Notifications Hub with Xamarin to deliver push notifications to Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Windows Store

Tools & Components

• Smartphone image processing development made easy!

  AForge.NET, a popular open source image processing library, is now available for Xamarin

• My Essential .NET Dev Tools

  Spencer shares his essential tools. Many which are appropriate for us Xamarin types

• Announcing PostSharp 4.1 Preview 4: Xamarin Support, and More

  PostSharp now has support for Xamarin

• Google Analytics Binding for Unified API

  Just in time the google analytics binding has been updated for unified

• Simple Alternative to AutoMapper

  Jordan from Xamling talks about a simple alternative to AutoMapper that can be used for Unified Solution

Community

• What’s New Xamarin.Forms 1.3 Webinar Slides

  Craig Dunn shares the slides from his recent webinar about the new features in Xamarin.Forms 1.3

• Designing and Consuming Modern APIs with Darrel Miller

  Another Gone Mobile podcast is up.

• Watch Xamarin Evolve 2014 (or any channel) YouTube videos offline

  Danvy.TV has instructions on how to setup Chocolatey and youtube-dl to download playlists… including, you guessed it, Evolve.

• Hi, I’m James, Developer Evangelist

  Meet James!

• App Spotlight: Graphium Health | Xamarin Blog

  Steven Yi over at the Xamarin blog has an App Spotlight on Graphium Health. It’s always good to hear about new Xamarin Apps in the marketplace.

• Making a Game in a Weekend with MonoGame.

  The story of two men, curry sleep deprivation and creating a game

Other Stuff

• Xamarin or native?

  Arthur Csertus shares his views on choosing between native and Xamarin.