Category Archives: Xamarin

Xamarin.Forms! – Too Good To Be True?

Wow, I am really excited about Xamarin Studio 3.0 and especially its inclusion of the new Xamarin Forms package.

XF lets you design a form via C# and then compile to iOS, Android and Windows Phones all in with one code base! What’s really interesting to me is that you can describe the XF controls in C# or in XAML!

Hurrah! All those years working in WPF may not have been for naught.

I’ve already signed up for the Xamarin University course Intro to Xamarin Forms this coming Tues. I am sure to learn a lot and have quite a few questions.

Definitely check it out. 🙂

 

Genymotion – the way to go

I downloaded the XamarinStore app (cause I want the T-Shirt)  and was bummed out with the way the app looked in the v14 Android emulator. (I couldn’t see the all the text so I couldn’t tell what was needed to complete the next steps.)

Luckily, Nick at Xamarin mentioned that I should check out GenyMotion and get the free android emulators from them.

Wow, big difference! And much better!