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Optimize App Loading with LazyView (Xamarin Community Toolkit)
With the Xamarin Community Toolkit LazyView you are able to lazy load any view! This will help you optimize load times in your app. Simply wrap your content in the LazyView and all the hard work will...
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Screenshot (Xamarin.Essentials API of the Week)
Xamarin.Essentials provides developers with cross-platform APIs for their mobile applications. On this week's Essential API of the week we take a look at Screenshot API that allows you to take a...
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Forget Time Zones with DateTimeOffsetConverter (Xamarin Community Toolkit)
In this episode we will learn everything about the DateTimeOffsetConverter that is included in the Xamarin Community Toolkit. Mark Allibone knows from first-hand experience that sometimes, in a...
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Share Files (Xamarin.Essentials API of the Week)
Xamarin.Essentials provides developers with cross-platform APIs for their mobile applications. On this week's Essential API of the week we take a look at an update to the Share API that allows now...
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Platform Perfect Popups - Part 1 (Xamarin Community Toolkit)
Popups can be annoying, but not the Xamarin Community Toolkit ones! In this video we will learn from Andrew, master of popups, how to use the newly implemented popups in your Xamarin.Forms app. In part...
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Introduction to Microservices | The Xamarin Show
This week, James is joined Nish Anil who is here to talk about what exactly Microservices are and why mobile developers should care about them. He walks through what they are, what are images,...
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Building Our First Microservice | The Xamarin Show
This week, James is joined by Nish Anil who is here to walk us through building our very first Microservice for our mobile apps with .NET, ASP.NET Core, Docker, Kubernetes, and more! He shows how to...
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Platform Perfect Popups - Part 2 (Xamarin Community Toolkit)
Popups can be annoying, but not the Xamarin Community Toolkit ones! In this video we will learn from Andrew, master of popups, how to use the newly implemented popups in your Xamarin.Forms app. In part...
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App Localization (Xamarin Community Toolkit)
To make inclusive apps, localization might be a good idea. To help you with that, we have got a couple of things in the Xamarin Community Toolkit that you can use. In this episode I have Maksym on the...
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XAML Hot Reload Updates | Xamarin Show
This week, James is joined by Dmitry Lyalin and Tim Miller who show off the latest and greatest in XAML Hot Reload technology with the new "changes only" mode that saves the state of your running...
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User Stopped Typing Behavior (Xamarin Community Toolkit)
If you've ever needed to implement a search bar, you will know the hassle of implementing this functionality. You don't want to send every keystroke to your backend! So, once again, you take some...
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Xamarin Quick Tips: Font Icon Embedding
In this video I show you can use Font Awesome to create vector icons in your Xamarin.Forms app.Show Links:Blog - Embedded FontsFont AwesomeFont 2 C#Follow @JamesMontemagnoNever Miss an Episode: Follow...
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Image Tinting (Xamarin Community Toolkit)
Getting all your image resources in the right color can be a big pain. Between iOS and Android alone you will have to add them in many different dimensions. John has made this a whole lot easier by...
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Xamarin Quick Tips: Setting Tab Icons with Style Triggers
In this video I show you to you Style Triggers to modify Tab Icons based on their selections state.Show Links:Blog - Embedded FontsBlog - Tab TriggersFont AwesomeFont 2 C#Follow @JamesMontemagnoNever...
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Lifecycle Events (Xamarin Community Toolkit)
Pedro is back for another episode! This time he will tell us all about the Lifecycle Effect that he implemented for the Xamarin Community Toolkit. With this effect you can hook into the Loaded and...
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Building Accessible Mobile Apps | The Xamarin Show
This week, James is joined by Rachel Kang, software engineer on the Xamarin.Forms and .NET MAUI team, who talks to us about the importance of building accessible apps. She shows off how you can start...
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Multimedia with MediaElement (Xamarin Community Toolkit)
Playing audio and video in your Xamarin.Forms app has never been easier. In this episode I have Peter Foot on who tells us about the MediaElement. With the MediaElement, now available in the Xamarin...
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Magic Gradients | The Xamarin Show
This week, James is joined by Bohdan Benetskyi, mobile developer & contributor to Magic Gradients, an awesome library built on SkiaSharp for awesome gradients in your Xamarin apps!Show Links:Magic...
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EnumToIntConverter (Xamarin Community Toolkit)
Data-binding can be a hassle whenever you have to use enum values. With the EnumToIntConverter that is now included in the Xamarin Community Toolkit it is easier than ever to work with enums. In this...
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Improving Accessibility with Xamarin Community Toolkit
With the SemanticEffect and SemanticOrderView in the Xamarin Community Toolkit you now have all the tools to make your Xamarin.Forms app more accessible. In this episode I am joined by Shane Neuville...
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SnackBar and Toast (Xamarin Community Toolkit)
With SnackBar and Toast it is now easier than ever to show a little notification to the user. It can pop-up at the bottom of your page or be attached to any VisualElement! In this show I have Vladislav...
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Microsoft Build 2021 news for .NET MAUI And Xamarin
This week, James is joined by Maddy Leger, Xamarin & .NET MAUI Program Manager, who gives us all the details from Microsoft Build for Xamarin and .NET MAUI.Show Links:.NET MAUI Preview 4 Blog.NET...
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Next Level Touch Gestures with TouchEffect (Xamarin Community Toolkit)
The TouchEffect in the Xamarin Community Toolkit allows you to make any visual element into a button. By adding a few lines of code you can execute code by a simple touch. The TouchEffect also brings...
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Introduction to .NET MAUI Blazor | The Xamarin Show
Blazor enables building client-side web UI with .NET, but sometimes you need more than what the web platform offers. Sometimes you need full access to the native capabilities of the device. You can now...
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Cross-platform Awesome with Shiny 2.0 | The Xamarin Show
Today, James is joined by Allan Ritchie, Microsoft MVP, who shows off the latest version of his cross-platform library Shiny. Shiny is a cross platform framework designed for Xamarin & UWP to make...
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