An open source mobile platform for building Android, iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS apps with .NET.
November 1, 2019Nov 1, 201911/1/19We are excited to announce our first ever community challenge featuring Snppts: a community-run Xamarin.Forms UI snippets aggregate. Simply submit a snippet to be eligible for exclusive swag!
October 31, 2019Oct 31, 201910/31/19This November, explore Xamarin and .NET development with your community at developer events all around the world. Find endless opportunities including conferences like She Sharp Conference, as well as virtual events online like Ignite!
October 24, 2019Oct 24, 201910/24/19Visual Studio App Center offers integrated and end-to-end developer services for building, managing and powering your Xamarin iOS and Android apps. Easily integrate globally scalable backend services with just a few lines of code. Automate your build, test, and distribution pipelines, while continuously monitoring real-time performance.
October 22, 2019Oct 22, 201910/22/19Announcing the stable release of Xamarin.Forms 4.3.0! Marking the removal of the experimental flag from CollectionView as it moves into stable status. Along with this, comes a number of enhancements and contributions from the community including SourceLink support, the ability to display HTML on Labels, and more!
October 18, 2019Oct 18, 201910/18/19Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. This month’s Xamarin Podcast episode features a full .NET Conf 2019 recap!
October 16, 2019Oct 16, 201910/16/19Announcing a new series on Xamarin YouTube Channel called “Partly Cloudy“ with Matt Soucoup: Exploring topics around Azure, DevOps, and Xamarin to learn how to build an app from scratch - all the way through deployment to the App Stores!
October 9, 2019Oct 9, 201910/9/19Introducing the DevOps for Mobile video series now streaming on YouTube and Channel 9. We tackle a wide range of topics including continuous integration, user interface testing, provisioning, distribution, and a lot more. We guide you through each topic with easy to follow demos, but more importantly we have conversations around each area.
October 8, 2019Oct 8, 201910/8/19Code for cotton or from your love for Xamarin in this year's Hacktoberfest! Here are the guidelines to get you started. Be sure to tag your pull requests with the "Hacktoberfest" label to be considered for a reward.
October 4, 2019Oct 4, 201910/4/19After the first prerelease of Xamarin.Forms 4.3 we asked you to participate in the CarouselView Challenge as a follow-up to the CollectionView Challenge. Now we look back on this challenge and report everything that we learned.
October 1, 2019Oct 1, 201910/1/19Discover the world of Xamarin and .NET with your community at developer events in October. Find tons of opportunities around the globe, including conferences and virtual events online!
Android
October 24, 2019Oct 24, 201910/24/19Visual Studio App Center offers integrated and end-to-end developer services for building, managing and powering your Xamarin iOS and Android apps. Easily integrate globally scalable backend services with just a few lines of code. Automate your build, test, and distribution pipelines, while continuously monitoring real-time performance.
September 26, 2019Sep 26, 201909/26/19We’re excited to announce Xamarin.Android support for Android 10.0 in our latest release of Xamarin.Android for both Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio for Mac 2019!
September 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19Today at .NET Conf 2019, we shared some exciting announcements for Xamarin and Visual Studio developers, enabling you to be more productive and use the full power, performance, and capabilities of iOS/Android in your applications.
August 23, 2019Aug 23, 201908/23/19In this Guest Blog post learn why having in-app feedback is important to application success and how Instabug can enable a super simple way to stream line user feedback and crash reporting.
August 20, 2019Aug 20, 201908/20/19The Xamarin.Android team has worked hard to delivery amazing features that every Xamarin developer should be using. Now through the end of August, we challenge YOU to give them a try and get rewarded with some awesome Xamarin swag!
August 16, 2019Aug 16, 201908/16/19Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers plus the latest in .NET, C#, and Azure. This month’s Xamarin Podcast episode covers all the latest news around Android, Visual Studio, and more!
August 14, 2019Aug 14, 201908/14/19Introducing Boots: a .NET Global Tool for installing .vsix or .pkg files and specific builds of Mono, Xamarin, etc. on CI systems.
August 7, 2019Aug 7, 201908/7/19When debugging, your project has a single, simple goal: build fast. In day-to-day development, we want you writing code with the bulk of your time, not waiting for builds. Learn more about how to optimize build times!
July 25, 2019Jul 25, 201907/25/19The Android team has refactored the Support Library into a new set of extension libraries known as AndroidX which includes simplified package names to better reflect each package’s content and it’s supported API levels.
July 24, 2019Jul 24, 201907/24/19Announcing faster starter times using Startup Tracing on Android with performant startup experience and minimal increase to APK size.
Announcements
October 22, 2019Oct 22, 201910/22/19Announcing the stable release of Xamarin.Forms 4.3.0! Marking the removal of the experimental flag from CollectionView as it moves into stable status. Along with this, comes a number of enhancements and contributions from the community including SourceLink support, the ability to display HTML on Labels, and more!
October 16, 2019Oct 16, 201910/16/19Announcing a new series on Xamarin YouTube Channel called “Partly Cloudy“ with Matt Soucoup: Exploring topics around Azure, DevOps, and Xamarin to learn how to build an app from scratch - all the way through deployment to the App Stores!
October 8, 2019Oct 8, 201910/8/19Code for cotton or from your love for Xamarin in this year's Hacktoberfest! Here are the guidelines to get you started. Be sure to tag your pull requests with the "Hacktoberfest" label to be considered for a reward.
October 4, 2019Oct 4, 201910/4/19After the first prerelease of Xamarin.Forms 4.3 we asked you to participate in the CarouselView Challenge as a follow-up to the CollectionView Challenge. Now we look back on this challenge and report everything that we learned.
September 26, 2019Sep 26, 201909/26/19We’re excited to announce Xamarin.Android support for Android 10.0 in our latest release of Xamarin.Android for both Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio for Mac 2019!
September 24, 2019Sep 24, 201909/24/19A new developer coding challenge has emerged. Do you have what it takes to build and run a simple Xamarin app that uses Azure Functions to run tasks in the cloud? Choose to enter and you'll find yourself in a draw for some really cool prizes. Read the blog for details - your challenge awaits.
September 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19Today at .NET Conf 2019, we shared some exciting announcements for Xamarin and Visual Studio developers, enabling you to be more productive and use the full power, performance, and capabilities of iOS/Android in your applications.
September 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19Today at .NET Conf 2019, we announced Xamarin Hot Restart which enables you to test changes made to your app, including multi-file code edits, resources, and references, using a much faster build and deploy cycle.
September 18, 2019Sep 18, 201909/18/19.NET Conf: a FREE, 3-day virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft, is live-streaming to a device near you on September 23-25 with local events around the world through October! .NET Core 3.0 will also launch at .NET Conf 2019 - You won't want to miss this.
September 13, 2019Sep 13, 201909/13/19Support for iOS 13 and Xcode 11 to accompany Apple’s Xcode Gold Master (GM) release has just been announced! Now, build your Xamarin.iOS (and Xamarin.Forms for iOS) apps with Xcode 11 GM and submit your iOS 13, tvOS 13 and watchOS 6 apps to the Apple App Store.
Case Studies
May 31, 2019May 31, 201905/31/19Customer Showcase - BBVA discusses Valora View and the use of various Microsoft technologies to address business needs for a mobile app that helps customers look for houses to rent or buy using Augmented Reality, Big Data, and 2D heat map features with .NET and Xamarin.
April 23, 2019Apr 23, 201904/23/19We are excited to announce a new inclusion to our Xamarin Showcase gallery:,The Aggreko Technician App - A key objective of Aggreko’s company-wide Aggreko18 digital transformation program was to streamline field operations and revolutionize their technician processes.
September 22, 2016Sep 22, 201609/22/16
February 28, 2016Feb 28, 201602/28/16January 19, 2016Jan 19, 201601/19/16November 10, 2015Nov 10, 201511/10/15October 5, 2015Oct 5, 201510/5/15September 15, 2015Sep 15, 201509/15/15August 20, 2015Aug 20, 201508/20/15August 10, 2015Aug 10, 201508/10/15Cloud
September 24, 2019Sep 24, 201909/24/19A new developer coding challenge has emerged. Do you have what it takes to build and run a simple Xamarin app that uses Azure Functions to run tasks in the cloud? Choose to enter and you'll find yourself in a draw for some really cool prizes. Read the blog for details - your challenge awaits.
October 4, 2018Oct 4, 201810/4/18Azure's Text Analytics Service makes it easy to add sentiment analysis to our cross-platform apps. Let's see how with this to implement it in a Xamarin app!
September 6, 2018Sep 6, 201809/6/18Microsoft Cognitive Services provide a great way to get started with AI without being a machine learning or data science expert. A common favorite of cognitive services is the Custom Vision Service. The first version of this service allowed you to easily build an image classifier model that you could access either via a REST API (with an SDK available for Xamarin apps), or by downloading a model that can be run on your device using either CoreML, TensorFlow or WindowsML (we looked at using TensorFlow in an Android app in an earlier blog post).
Developers
November 1, 2019Nov 1, 201911/1/19We are excited to announce our first ever community challenge featuring Snppts: a community-run Xamarin.Forms UI snippets aggregate. Simply submit a snippet to be eligible for exclusive swag!
October 24, 2019Oct 24, 201910/24/19Visual Studio App Center offers integrated and end-to-end developer services for building, managing and powering your Xamarin iOS and Android apps. Easily integrate globally scalable backend services with just a few lines of code. Automate your build, test, and distribution pipelines, while continuously monitoring real-time performance.
September 24, 2019Sep 24, 201909/24/19A new developer coding challenge has emerged. Do you have what it takes to build and run a simple Xamarin app that uses Azure Functions to run tasks in the cloud? Choose to enter and you'll find yourself in a draw for some really cool prizes. Read the blog for details - your challenge awaits.
September 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19Today at .NET Conf 2019, we shared some exciting announcements for Xamarin and Visual Studio developers, enabling you to be more productive and use the full power, performance, and capabilities of iOS/Android in your applications.
September 11, 2019Sep 11, 201909/11/19Today we’re announcing the first prerelease of Xamarin.Forms 4.3 which includes CarouselView’s implementation, based on CollectionView, and can provide unique functionality within your apps. Plus - a new Xamarin challenge!
September 4, 2019Sep 4, 201909/4/19See how compiled bindings for Xamarin.Forms XAML can help boost performance in your apps and also give immediate feedback when developing apps if you have a typo in your bindings.
August 23, 2019Aug 23, 201908/23/19In this Guest Blog post learn why having in-app feedback is important to application success and how Instabug can enable a super simple way to stream line user feedback and crash reporting.
August 21, 2019Aug 21, 201908/21/19Today have released Xamarin.Forms 4.2 for general availability, which is packed full of great new features for Shell and awesome community contributions that you are going to love. Additionally, read up on the latest happenings with the development of CollectionView and it's status.
August 20, 2019Aug 20, 201908/20/19The Xamarin.Android team has worked hard to delivery amazing features that every Xamarin developer should be using. Now through the end of August, we challenge YOU to give them a try and get rewarded with some awesome Xamarin swag!
August 16, 2019Aug 16, 201908/16/19Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers plus the latest in .NET, C#, and Azure. This month’s Xamarin Podcast episode covers all the latest news around Android, Visual Studio, and more!
DevOps
October 9, 2019Oct 9, 201910/9/19Introducing the DevOps for Mobile video series now streaming on YouTube and Channel 9. We tackle a wide range of topics including continuous integration, user interface testing, provisioning, distribution, and a lot more. We guide you through each topic with easy to follow demos, but more importantly we have conversations around each area.
January 16, 2018Jan 16, 201801/16/18 At our annual Microsoft Connect event in November, we announced the General Availability of Visual Studio App Center, combining our best developer services, incuding Xamarin Test Cloud and HockeyApp, into one free, easy-to-use cloud service to help you ship better apps, faster. From building in the cloud to automatically testing on thousands of real devices, distributing to testers and app stores, and monitoring real-time crash and analytics data, Visual Studio App Center fully supports Xamarin apps.
November 6, 2017Nov 6, 201711/6/17Education
October 18, 2019Oct 18, 201910/18/19Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. This month’s Xamarin Podcast episode features a full .NET Conf 2019 recap!
October 16, 2019Oct 16, 201910/16/19Announcing a new series on Xamarin YouTube Channel called “Partly Cloudy“ with Matt Soucoup: Exploring topics around Azure, DevOps, and Xamarin to learn how to build an app from scratch - all the way through deployment to the App Stores!
October 9, 2019Oct 9, 201910/9/19Introducing the DevOps for Mobile video series now streaming on YouTube and Channel 9. We tackle a wide range of topics including continuous integration, user interface testing, provisioning, distribution, and a lot more. We guide you through each topic with easy to follow demos, but more importantly we have conversations around each area.
September 10, 2019Sep 10, 201909/10/19The Xamarin documentation portal is home to everything you need to know about building apps with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms. There you will find great quickstarts, tutorials, and deep-dive content. The docs are always updating and can easily be contributed to, so here are a few things on how to keep up with docs.
June 21, 2019Jun 21, 201906/21/19Learn how to build cross-platform mobile applications with the new Xamarin.Forms content on Microsoft Learn; A new and completely free platform where you can earn points and badges, level up, and advance your development skills.
May 6, 2019May 6, 201905/6/19The Xamarin University team has joined Microsoft Learn to incorporate many of the great features Xamarin University has, to announce building Xamarin apps in Microsoft Learn: a free and interactive learning portal.
April 18, 2019Apr 18, 201904/18/19We are excited to re-launch our Xamarin Developers YouTube channel where you will find fresh content on building amazing mobile apps directly from the Xamarin team at Microsoft. We have teamed up with our community and built a video to show off this channel.
April 8, 2019Apr 8, 201904/8/19Give a warm welcome to WorkManager. WorkManager is a library that makes it easy to schedule deferrable, asynchronous tasks even if the app exits or the device restarts. It was designed to be backwards compatible to API 14 and does so by wrapping JobScheduler, AlarmManager, and BroadcastReceivers all in one.
March 14, 2018Mar 14, 201803/14/18
November 9, 2017Nov 9, 201711/9/17Enterprise
August 8, 2017Aug 8, 201708/8/17July 18, 2017Jul 18, 201707/18/17May 3, 2017May 3, 201705/3/17
April 6, 2017Apr 6, 201704/6/17January 6, 2017Jan 6, 201701/6/17
November 16, 2016Nov 16, 201611/16/16
November 16, 2016Nov 16, 201611/16/16
October 20, 2016Oct 20, 201610/20/16October 7, 2016Oct 7, 201610/7/16
September 28, 2016Sep 28, 201609/28/16Events
October 31, 2019Oct 31, 201910/31/19This November, explore Xamarin and .NET development with your community at developer events all around the world. Find endless opportunities including conferences like She Sharp Conference, as well as virtual events online like Ignite!
October 18, 2019Oct 18, 201910/18/19Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. This month’s Xamarin Podcast episode features a full .NET Conf 2019 recap!
October 8, 2019Oct 8, 201910/8/19Code for cotton or from your love for Xamarin in this year's Hacktoberfest! Here are the guidelines to get you started. Be sure to tag your pull requests with the "Hacktoberfest" label to be considered for a reward.
October 1, 2019Oct 1, 201910/1/19Discover the world of Xamarin and .NET with your community at developer events in October. Find tons of opportunities around the globe, including conferences and virtual events online!
September 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19Today at .NET Conf 2019, we shared some exciting announcements for Xamarin and Visual Studio developers, enabling you to be more productive and use the full power, performance, and capabilities of iOS/Android in your applications.
September 20, 2019Sep 20, 201909/20/19Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno review and discuss a range of topics in this month’s Xamarin Podcast episode covering iOS 13, Android 10, and a little something called, "Boots".
September 18, 2019Sep 18, 201909/18/19.NET Conf: a FREE, 3-day virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft, is live-streaming to a device near you on September 23-25 with local events around the world through October! .NET Core 3.0 will also launch at .NET Conf 2019 - You won't want to miss this.
September 3, 2019Sep 3, 201909/3/19Discover the world of Xamarin and .NET with your community at developer events happening in September. Find tons of opportunities around the globe, including conferences and virtual events online!
July 31, 2019Jul 31, 201907/31/19Discover the world of Xamarin and .NET with your community at developer events happening this August. Find tons of opportunities around the world, including conferences and virtual events online!
July 19, 2019Jul 19, 201907/19/19Keeping up with the latest in .NET, C#, Xamarin, and Azure is easier than ever. Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. This month’s episode recaps of all the announcements from The Xamarin Developer Summit – including XAML Hot Reload!
Integrations
August 23, 2019Aug 23, 201908/23/19In this Guest Blog post learn why having in-app feedback is important to application success and how Instabug can enable a super simple way to stream line user feedback and crash reporting.
August 2, 2019Aug 2, 201908/2/19See how you can create a contact application to send an sms, email, place a phone call, and navigate to a location with just 4 lines of code with Xamarin.Essentials.
July 12, 2019Jul 12, 201907/12/19Xamarin.Essentials, your favorite cross-platform library to access native features from shared code adds new file bases APIs for sharing, email, and opening. It also adds watchOS, tvOS, and Tizen platform support in the 1.3 pre-update!
February 19, 2019Feb 19, 201902/19/19An essential part of any mobile application is the ability to persist data. Sometimes that is a large amount of data that requires a database, but often it is smaller pieces of data such as settings and preferences that need to be persisted between application launches. This is where Xamarin.Essentials can help out with its wide range of cross-platform APIs for mobile apps.
February 12, 2019Feb 12, 201902/12/19As a mobile app developer, it's great to be able to pull data from the server to our apps to provide users with a delightful experience. Of course, until your user puts their device on airplane mode or hits a rough patch with no cell reception. To provide the best user experience we need access to the current network state of our users' device. Better yet, be able to register for changes to that network state. Doing this will allow our mobile apps to react to different network conditions to provide users with instant feedback. With the connectivity API in Xamarin.Essentials, we can do just that with a few lines of code.
October 12, 2018Oct 12, 201810/12/18n a previous blog we discussed obfuscating your Xamarin application with Dotfuscator Community to protect it from reverse-engineering. That kind of protection is an important and necessary layer in your application's security posture, but it shouldn't be the only layer. The application also needs to react to threats at runtime in order to protect its own integrity, and to protect the data that it accesses.
October 4, 2018Oct 4, 201810/4/18Azure's Text Analytics Service makes it easy to add sentiment analysis to our cross-platform apps. Let's see how with this to implement it in a Xamarin app!
September 6, 2018Sep 6, 201809/6/18Microsoft Cognitive Services provide a great way to get started with AI without being a machine learning or data science expert. A common favorite of cognitive services is the Custom Vision Service. The first version of this service allowed you to easily build an image classifier model that you could access either via a REST API (with an SDK available for Xamarin apps), or by downloading a model that can be run on your device using either CoreML, TensorFlow or WindowsML (we looked at using TensorFlow in an Android app in an earlier blog post).
July 30, 2018Jul 30, 201807/30/18In this tutorial, you will learn how to integrate automated visual user interface tests into a development toolchain that includes Xcode iOS simulator using Xamarin, Appium, Applitools, and macOS.
July 9, 2018Jul 9, 201807/9/18Five-star mobile apps have one special feature: they don’t let go of their users. This can be achieved by understanding your app, the app’s users, and how these users interact with your app. The deep customer insights offered by AppCenter's Continuous Export provide a better understanding of your customers and help boost retention. By default, you receive information about your active users, their active sessions, top devices, country, language, and more!
iOS
October 24, 2019Oct 24, 201910/24/19Visual Studio App Center offers integrated and end-to-end developer services for building, managing and powering your Xamarin iOS and Android apps. Easily integrate globally scalable backend services with just a few lines of code. Automate your build, test, and distribution pipelines, while continuously monitoring real-time performance.
September 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19Today at .NET Conf 2019, we shared some exciting announcements for Xamarin and Visual Studio developers, enabling you to be more productive and use the full power, performance, and capabilities of iOS/Android in your applications.
September 13, 2019Sep 13, 201909/13/19Support for iOS 13 and Xcode 11 to accompany Apple’s Xcode Gold Master (GM) release has just been announced! Now, build your Xamarin.iOS (and Xamarin.Forms for iOS) apps with Xcode 11 GM and submit your iOS 13, tvOS 13 and watchOS 6 apps to the Apple App Store.
August 30, 2019Aug 30, 201908/30/19Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Forms deliver native iOS experiences for iOS 13 Apple which introduces dark mode: A system-wide option for light and dark themes to choose themes or allow iOS to dynamically change appearance based on the environment and time of day.
August 23, 2019Aug 23, 201908/23/19In this Guest Blog post learn why having in-app feedback is important to application success and how Instabug can enable a super simple way to stream line user feedback and crash reporting.
July 15, 2019Jul 15, 201907/15/19Guest Post: Snppts allows you to contribute your user interface designs created in Xamarin to benefit other community members and to show off your work. Contributing is as simple as creating a PR on our repository with your author and snippet information. Learn more...
July 3, 2019Jul 3, 201907/3/19Today, we are excited to share our first preview containing support for iOS 13 and Xcode 11! With today's preview, you can begin building applications using Xcode 13 and begin integrating existing new APIs for iOS 13 such as Sign in with Apple, along with support for iPadOS 13, watchOS 6, tvOS 13, and macOS 10.15.
June 7, 2019Jun 7, 201906/7/19Browse the Xamarin.Essentials Maps documentation to learn about all of the great cross-platform native APIs with additional implementation and limitation details. Xamarin.Essentials is open source on GitHub where you can report issues, ask for features, and contribute to the library.
March 26, 2019Mar 26, 201903/26/19Historically iOS applications have had a number of limitations when running on a device, as Apple disallows the execution of dynamically generated code. Applications are compiled “Ahead of Time” (AOT) before deployment because of this. You can read more about this architecture here.
February 4, 2019Feb 4, 201902/4/19Have you ever needed to integrate a C/C++ library in your Xamarin apps? Checkout this full Walkthrough pf an approach to wrapping a C/C++ library so it can be incorporated into Xamarin-based solutions via NuGet in a cross-platform manner.
Leadership
September 1, 2017Sep 1, 201709/1/17July 16, 2015Jul 16, 201507/16/15February 12, 2015Feb 12, 201502/12/15
February 5, 2015Feb 5, 201502/5/15
January 14, 2015Jan 14, 201501/14/15
January 2, 2013Jan 2, 201301/2/13macOS
September 13, 2019Sep 13, 201909/13/19Support for iOS 13 and Xcode 11 to accompany Apple’s Xcode Gold Master (GM) release has just been announced! Now, build your Xamarin.iOS (and Xamarin.Forms for iOS) apps with Xcode 11 GM and submit your iOS 13, tvOS 13 and watchOS 6 apps to the Apple App Store.
July 3, 2019Jul 3, 201907/3/19Today, we are excited to share our first preview containing support for iOS 13 and Xcode 11! With today's preview, you can begin building applications using Xcode 13 and begin integrating existing new APIs for iOS 13 such as Sign in with Apple, along with support for iPadOS 13, watchOS 6, tvOS 13, and macOS 10.15.
June 26, 2019Jun 26, 201906/26/19Apple has been moving towards 64-bit only applications on macOS for a number of releases. Though new Xamarin.Mac applications target 64-bit by default, any existing Xamarin.Mac applications that target 32-bit must be migrated to 64-bit to continue working in the future. Learn more.
April 15, 2019Apr 15, 201904/15/19 With macOS Mojave, Apple introduced support for Hardened Runtime and Notary service. These two services are designed to improve application security on macOS. Recently Apple has stated:
“Beginning in macOS 10.14.5, all new or updated kernel extensions and all software from developers new to distributing with Developer ID must be notarized in order to run. In a future version of macOS, notarization will be required by default for all software.”
January 4, 2018Jan 4, 201801/4/18Although Xamarin technologies are most commonly used to develop mobile applications, Xamarin.Mac makes it easy to use your preferred .NET language to develop desktop Mac apps. There are many C# examples in Xamarin’s mac-samples directory on Github, but it's also easy to use F# to develop desktop Mac apps as well.
November 30, 2017Nov 30, 201711/30/17Podcasts
October 18, 2019Oct 18, 201910/18/19Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. This month’s Xamarin Podcast episode features a full .NET Conf 2019 recap!
October 16, 2019Oct 16, 201910/16/19Announcing a new series on Xamarin YouTube Channel called “Partly Cloudy“ with Matt Soucoup: Exploring topics around Azure, DevOps, and Xamarin to learn how to build an app from scratch - all the way through deployment to the App Stores!
Visual Studio
September 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19Today at .NET Conf 2019, we shared some exciting announcements for Xamarin and Visual Studio developers, enabling you to be more productive and use the full power, performance, and capabilities of iOS/Android in your applications.
September 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19Today at .NET Conf 2019, we announced Xamarin Hot Restart which enables you to test changes made to your app, including multi-file code edits, resources, and references, using a much faster build and deploy cycle.
September 18, 2019Sep 18, 201909/18/19.NET Conf: a FREE, 3-day virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft, is live-streaming to a device near you on September 23-25 with local events around the world through October! .NET Core 3.0 will also launch at .NET Conf 2019 - You won't want to miss this.
August 13, 2019Aug 13, 201908/13/19Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 Preview 2 and Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.3 Preview 2 released with major productivity enhancements: XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms, improvements to the XAML Previewer, along with support for the latest Android Q APIs.
March 6, 2018Mar 6, 201803/6/18September 26, 2017Sep 26, 201709/26/17watchOS
September 13, 2019Sep 13, 201909/13/19Support for iOS 13 and Xcode 11 to accompany Apple’s Xcode Gold Master (GM) release has just been announced! Now, build your Xamarin.iOS (and Xamarin.Forms for iOS) apps with Xcode 11 GM and submit your iOS 13, tvOS 13 and watchOS 6 apps to the Apple App Store.
July 12, 2019Jul 12, 201907/12/19Xamarin.Essentials, your favorite cross-platform library to access native features from shared code adds new file bases APIs for sharing, email, and opening. It also adds watchOS, tvOS, and Tizen platform support in the 1.3 pre-update!
July 3, 2019Jul 3, 201907/3/19Today, we are excited to share our first preview containing support for iOS 13 and Xcode 11! With today's preview, you can begin building applications using Xcode 13 and begin integrating existing new APIs for iOS 13 such as Sign in with Apple, along with support for iPadOS 13, watchOS 6, tvOS 13, and macOS 10.15.
March 20, 2019Mar 20, 201903/20/19Important changes are coming to watchOS! Checkout our support for Apple Watch Series 4 new processor architecture, ARM64_32 based on the Xamarin.iOS SDKs shipping with Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio 2019 for Mac.
September 19, 2018Sep 19, 201809/19/18Support for iOS 12 and Xcode 10 to accompany Apple’s Xcode Gold Master (GM) release has just been announced! We have also published updated documentation and samples to help you quickly get started with all the latest new features. Now, build your Xamarin.iOS (and of course Xamarin.Forms for iOS) applications with Xcode 10 GM and submit your iOS 12, tvOS 12, and watchOS 5 applications to the Apple App Store.
Xamarin.Forms
November 1, 2019Nov 1, 201911/1/19We are excited to announce our first ever community challenge featuring Snppts: a community-run Xamarin.Forms UI snippets aggregate. Simply submit a snippet to be eligible for exclusive swag!
October 22, 2019Oct 22, 201910/22/19Announcing the stable release of Xamarin.Forms 4.3.0! Marking the removal of the experimental flag from CollectionView as it moves into stable status. Along with this, comes a number of enhancements and contributions from the community including SourceLink support, the ability to display HTML on Labels, and more!
October 18, 2019Oct 18, 201910/18/19Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. This month’s Xamarin Podcast episode features a full .NET Conf 2019 recap!
October 8, 2019Oct 8, 201910/8/19Code for cotton or from your love for Xamarin in this year's Hacktoberfest! Here are the guidelines to get you started. Be sure to tag your pull requests with the "Hacktoberfest" label to be considered for a reward.
October 4, 2019Oct 4, 201910/4/19After the first prerelease of Xamarin.Forms 4.3 we asked you to participate in the CarouselView Challenge as a follow-up to the CollectionView Challenge. Now we look back on this challenge and report everything that we learned.
September 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19Today at .NET Conf 2019, we shared some exciting announcements for Xamarin and Visual Studio developers, enabling you to be more productive and use the full power, performance, and capabilities of iOS/Android in your applications.
September 12, 2019Sep 12, 201909/12/19Microsoft Garage interns worked with the Cambridge AI Customer Advisory Team (CAT) to create REEL: a mobile app that displays movies recommended for you based on the AI CAT algorithms. Successfully building a beautiful, smart Xamarin.Forms app in only 12 weeks! Learn more.
September 11, 2019Sep 11, 201909/11/19Today we’re announcing the first prerelease of Xamarin.Forms 4.3 which includes CarouselView’s implementation, based on CollectionView, and can provide unique functionality within your apps. Plus - a new Xamarin challenge!
September 10, 2019Sep 10, 201909/10/19The Xamarin documentation portal is home to everything you need to know about building apps with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms. There you will find great quickstarts, tutorials, and deep-dive content. The docs are always updating and can easily be contributed to, so here are a few things on how to keep up with docs.
September 4, 2019Sep 4, 201909/4/19See how compiled bindings for Xamarin.Forms XAML can help boost performance in your apps and also give immediate feedback when developing apps if you have a typo in your bindings.
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October 31, 2019Oct 31, 201910/31/19This November, explore Xamarin and .NET development with your community at developer events all around the world. Find endless opportunities including conferences like She Sharp Conference, as well as virtual events online like Ignite!
October 18, 2019Oct 18, 201910/18/19Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. This month’s Xamarin Podcast episode features a full .NET Conf 2019 recap!
October 9, 2019Oct 9, 201910/9/19Introducing the DevOps for Mobile video series now streaming on YouTube and Channel 9. We tackle a wide range of topics including continuous integration, user interface testing, provisioning, distribution, and a lot more. We guide you through each topic with easy to follow demos, but more importantly we have conversations around each area.
October 8, 2019Oct 8, 201910/8/19Code for cotton or from your love for Xamarin in this year's Hacktoberfest! Here are the guidelines to get you started. Be sure to tag your pull requests with the "Hacktoberfest" label to be considered for a reward.
September 24, 2019Sep 24, 201909/24/19A new developer coding challenge has emerged. Do you have what it takes to build and run a simple Xamarin app that uses Azure Functions to run tasks in the cloud? Choose to enter and you'll find yourself in a draw for some really cool prizes. Read the blog for details - your challenge awaits.
September 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19Today at .NET Conf 2019, we shared some exciting announcements for Xamarin and Visual Studio developers, enabling you to be more productive and use the full power, performance, and capabilities of iOS/Android in your applications.
September 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19Today at .NET Conf 2019, we announced Xamarin Hot Restart which enables you to test changes made to your app, including multi-file code edits, resources, and references, using a much faster build and deploy cycle.
September 20, 2019Sep 20, 201909/20/19Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno review and discuss a range of topics in this month’s Xamarin Podcast episode covering iOS 13, Android 10, and a little something called, "Boots".
September 18, 2019Sep 18, 201909/18/19.NET Conf: a FREE, 3-day virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft, is live-streaming to a device near you on September 23-25 with local events around the world through October! .NET Core 3.0 will also launch at .NET Conf 2019 - You won't want to miss this.
September 10, 2019Sep 10, 201909/10/19The Xamarin documentation portal is home to everything you need to know about building apps with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms. There you will find great quickstarts, tutorials, and deep-dive content. The docs are always updating and can easily be contributed to, so here are a few things on how to keep up with docs.
