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 working with device services and background processes easy, testable, and consistent while bringing things like dependency injection & logging in a structured way to your code! Show Links: Shiny Shiny Samples Allan's Blog Follow @JamesMontemagno Never Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShow Useful Links: Learn more about Xamarin Learn more about Xamarin.Forms Learn more ..read more

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 host Blazor components in .NET MAUI apps to build cross-platform native apps using web UI. The components run natively in the .NET process and render web UI to an embedded web view control using a local interop channel. This hybrid approach gives you the best of native and the web. Your components can access native functionality through the .NET platform, and they render standard web UI. .NET MA ..read more

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 hover functionality, long press and easy animations to your Xamarin.Forms app.   On the show I have Andrei Misieukevich who will show us all the power of TouchEffect. Tune in!       Sample App Xamarin Community Toolkit Repository Xamarin Community Toolkit Docs Get your questions answered on the Microsoft Q&A for .NET - http://aka.ms/dotnet-qa Learn Xamarin & .NE ..read more

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 MAUI on GitHub .NET 6 Deep Dive - Microsoft Build Follow @JamesMontemagno Never Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShow Useful Links: Learn more about Xamarin Learn more about Xamarin.Forms Learn more about Cross-platform development Xamarin Developer Center Xamarin Blog Microsoft Learn Self-Guided Training Create a Free Account (Azure) Xamarin Developers YouTube Cha ..read more

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 as my guest all the way from Ukraine to tell us about all the ins and outs of this awesome addition to the Xamarin Community Toolkit Sample Code Xamarin Community Toolkit Repository Xamarin Community Toolkit Docs Get your questions answered on the Microsoft Q&A for .NET - http://aka.ms/dotnet-qa Learn Xamarin & .NET with free self-guided learning from Microsoft Learn: http ..read more

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 and Rachel Kang from the Xamarin.Forms team. They focus on accessibility and will show us how to use these new features.   SemanticEffect and SemanticOrderView PR Let's Learn .NET - Accessibility A11Y Tools Sample App Repo Xamarin Community Toolkit Repository Xamarin Community Toolkit Docs Get your questions answered on the Microsoft Q&A for .NET - http://aka.ms/dotnet-qa Learn Xam ..read more

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 episode I am accompanied by Stephan who will share with us why he needed this and what you can do with it. Xamarin Community Toolkit Repository Xamarin Community Toolkit Docs Get your questions answered on the Microsoft Q&A for .NET - http://aka.ms/dotnet-qa Learn Xamarin & .NET with free self-guided learning from Microsoft Learn: http://aka.ms/learndotnet Useful Link ..read more

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 Gradients on GitHub Blog - Magic Gradients Follow @JamesMontemagno Never Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShow Useful Links: Learn more about Xamarin Learn more about Xamarin.Forms Learn more about Cross-platform development Xamarin Developer Center Xamarin Blog Microsoft Learn Self-Guided Training Create a Free Account (Azure) Xamarin Developers YouTube Channel Xamarin ..read more

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 Community Toolkit, you can play both local and remote video and audio files.   We will learn how to implement it and get started yourself. Sample Code Repo Xamarin Community Toolkit Repository Xamarin Community Toolkit MediaElement Docs Get your questions answered on the Microsoft Q&A for .NET - http://aka.ms/dotnet-qa Learn Xamarin & .NET with free self-guided learning from Mic ..read more

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 today testing your apps and adding features from Xamarin.Forms to make them even more accessible. Then she shows off some exciting work coming in .NET MAUI. Show Links: Blog - Journey to accessible apps Microsoft Learn - Building accessible apps with Xamarin.Forms GitHub - A11YTools Follow @JamesMontemagno Never Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShow Useful Links: Learn more about&nb ..read more