Microsoft Build Sessions published: Windows Phone XAML and HTML/JS apps, new...
Developing for Windows Phone is now closer to developing for the Windows 8 runtime, according to information from Microsoft’s Build sessions, just published. Build is Microsoft’s developer conference...
View ArticleMicrosoft Build goes nuts over Xamarin’s C# and .NET for iOS and Android
Xamarin’s Miguel de Icaza was booked for a standard session room at Build, Microsoft’s developer conference in San Francisco, but the session was moved to the keynote room because of demand. I am not...
View ArticleHands on with Xamarin 3.0: a cross-platform breakthrough for Visual Studio
Today Xamarin announced version 3.0 of its cross-platform mobile development tools, which let you target Android and iOS with C# and .NET. I have been trying a late beta preview. In order to use...
View ArticleXamarin 3.0 brings iOS visual design to Visual Studio, cross-platform XAML,...
Xamarin has announced the third version of its cross-platform tools, which use C# and .NET to target multiple platforms, including iOS, Android and Mac OS X. Xamarin 3.0 is a big release. In summary:...
View ArticleApple’s Swift programming language: easy coding for OS X and iOS at last?
Apple has announced a new programming language, called Swift. (There was already a language called Swift, used for parallel scripting, but Apple links to the other Swift in case you land on the wrong...
View ArticleXamarin announces large round of funding, plans international expansion
It is a case of “right time, right place” for Xamarin, as it scoops up Windows developers who need either to transition to iOS and Android, or to add mobile support to existing applications. You can...
View ArticleTesting mobile apps: Xamarin goes live with Test Cloud for iOS and Android...
Testing a mobile app is challenging, thanks to operating system fragmentation combined with diversity of hardware. In April 2013 Xamarin acquired a company called LessPainful, specialists in functional...
View ArticleXamarin Evolve: developers enjoy the buzz around cross-platform coding with C#
“It’s like a Microsoft developer event back when they were good,” one exhibitor here at Xamarin Evolve in Atlanta told me, and I do see what he means. There is plenty of buzz, since Xamarin is just...
View ArticleXamarin Challenge shows bumps in Microsoft’s path to cross-platform mobile
Microsoft ran a Xamarin Challenge over on Paul Thurrott’s site. The idea was to demo how to build a cross-platform mobile app with Microsoft’s cross-platform mobile toolkit. The challenge was in three...
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Using the Xamarin WebView for programmatic display of HTML content
Xamarin Forms is a key framework for C# and .NET developers since it lets you target Android, iOS and to some extent Windows (UWP and therefore Windows 10 only) with maximum code reuse. I have a...
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