Xamarin Link Roundup – 28 July 2013
It’s been a big week in Xamarin world. So many fantastic links flying around the interwebs. Here’s a selection of things I’ve seen this week that took my fancy.
The News
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Major upgrades to Xamarin’s platform: Async is here – Miguel de Icaza.
As they say, the await is finally over. Also there is a good series of videos on Channel 9 called Three Essential Tips for Async that is worth a watch – not Xamarin specific but some good tips none-the-less.
- Xamarin.Mobile: new, improved and open-sourced – Craig Dunn. They also open-sourcing Xamarin.Social, Xamarin.Mobile and Xamarin.Auth
- The Monkey Space conference was on. Wish I could have been there. Oh well, there is always next year. According to their twitter account, videos of this years sessions will start being posted here.
- Can Dropbox succeed where iCloud has failed? – Andy Boxall, Digital Trends
Cool Code
- PDRating – A Xamarin Control for ratings – Adam Patridge. (coming to the component store soon by the sound of it)
- Building a Real-Time Photo Gallery with Xamarin, SignalR, Azure, and WebAPI – Greg Shackles. Check out how sweet this is!
- XibFree – A lightweight, code-only layout engine for Xamarin.iOS – topten software
- Memory Management Pitfalls in Xamarin.iOS – Pitfall 2 – Bluetube Blog
- Refit: The automatic type-safe REST library for Xamarin and .NET – Paul Betts
- Hello, Mr. Bond; Hacking the Agent Watch with Xamarin.Android – Bryan Costanich
- Playing with Constraints – FluentConstraints and FluentLayouts for Xamarin.iOS – Stuart Lodge
- Create a MapView in Google Maps for iOS – Wallace McClure. Also check his Android edition
- How to Auto Wire Up Android Activity Views in Xamarin.Android – Red
Tips and Techniques
- Tips on code sharing with Partial classes and methods – Marcel de Vries
- Using Extension Methods on a C# Interface to Enable DCI in Xamarin – Larry O’Brien
- Missing SVN Support in Xamarin Studio – Christopher House
- Cross-Platform Native Mobile Apps – John Sprunger
- Native crashes in MonoTouch – Rolf Vinge
Xamarin Stories
- Making Scope Nights: Astronomy Weather Reports with Xamarin – Egg Moon Studios
- From Zero to Xamarin – Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 – Kym Phillpotts, Well Technically Blog (shameless self promotion)
Design & Inspiration
- Video of a sweet looking Clear-Like UI impelmented in Xamarin and MonoTouch.Dialog. – Egor Bykov
- Create Side Menu with Xamarin iOS FlyoutComponent Studio – Enrique Aguilar Vargas – video in spanish
- Create great images of your app in flight with Placit – pretty cool tool for mock usage screenshots
- iOS Fonts – Shows the system fonts for various iOS versions
- Sizes of iPhone UI Elements – quick reference guide to iPhone UI elements for Retina and Non Retina displays
- Pttrns – Mobile User Interface Patterns – Lots of great looking UI’s for inspiration
- Mobile Patterns – Even more UI Inspiration
- PortKit: UX Metaphor Equivalents for iOS & Android
- Don’ts of Android design
- iOS 6 vs iOS 7 UI View Comparison Infographic
Other random Googlings
These are just other posts I came acorss throughout the week whilst working on my current project
- Can EntryElement be readonly on Monotouch.Dialog? – StackOverflow
- Getting the iPhone System Font – StackOverflow. Not strictly Xamarin code, but shows how cool it is that the Xamarin wrappers mirror native APIs
- Enumerating fonts available in iOS – Xamarin Documentation
- Using custom Fonts in Xamarin.iOS – Michael James, Xamrin Blog
- Advanced custom styling in Xamarin.iOS – Forum post on Xamarin
- Third Party Libraries with MonoTouch and Mono for Android – Chris Hardy, Xamarin Blog
- Getting a Nexus 4 to work for Xamarin deployment – ADB not recognising Nexus 4 under Windows 7 and How to enable developer settings on Android 4.2