Xamarin Link Roundup – 6 Aug 2013

News

• Introducing the Google Play Services Component for Xamarin.Android

Frameworks

• PlayScript is an open source Adobe ActionScript compatible compiler and Flash compatible runtime that runs in the Mono .NET environment, targeting mobile devices through the Xamarin platform. http://playscript.github.io/ – via Julian Xhokaxhiu
  
• Reactive Extensions (RX) are the new cool.  There is now a port for Mono on github. It’s also available as nuget packages for iOS and Android. via – Jérémie Laval
• MonkeyArms MVCS framwork.  Well if framework names hadn’t got weird enough already, MonkeyArms is a MVCS framework for Xamarin iOS and Android apps inspired by Flash’s Robot Legs framework. – via Ben Bishop

Cool Code

• iOS UITableView: Hiding separator lines above custom section headers
• Neil Danson has a series of blog posts on implementing Monogame with F# on MacOS,  Android and iOS
• Building an evernote style UIViewController with xamarin –  via Glenn Stephens
• Programming the ChromeCast with Xamarin – Larry O’Brien, via Craig Dunn
• Pinterest style UICollectionViews in Xamarin.iOS – via Pierce Boggan
• How to to use the Action Bar in Android – Willem Meints

Interesting Reads

• AutoLayout with Xamarin.Mac – Jérémie Laval.  Discussion of how AutoLayout is used to implement the new iOS Property Pad for Xamarin Studio
• Mike Bluestein shares slides from his talk at MonkeySpace conference – Mike Bluestein
• How I built an Android app in C# & Visual Studio in less than 24hrs – Nishanth Anil

Tools

• Windows Phone app  building tools you might not know about – Adam Denning

Stuff that I googled for my project, that was useful

• Make a phone number initiate a phone call in iOS – Xamarin Forums.
  Update: Dan Miser sent a comment to have a look at the post http://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/comment/22462/#Comment_22462  because it provides the Call/Cancel dialog functionality to you for free. Thanks Dan!
  
• Can EntryElement be readonly on Monotouch.Dialog – StackOverflow
• Monotouch Dialog section enable or disable – Xamarin Forums
• Xamarin.iOS and Authentication in Windows Azure Mobile – Thirteen Days
• UITextField Max Length in C# with Xamarin.iOS – StackOverflow

 

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