As you may have read, the Xamarin team recently announced the release of a preview of the new Mono interpreter integrated with Xamarin.iOS. The new interpreter has been long anticipated - Miguel hinted at its revival on the Mono blog in late 2017 - a…
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Introduction to ARKit (Redux)
At the Sydney Mobile .Net Developers February 2019 Meetup, I gave another rendition of my talk from last year on ARKit - Apple's Augmented Reality (AR) - framework for mobile. You can see more about the original talk on my earlier post. To keep it fr…
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Xamarin.Essentials.Interfaces released
Nestled amongst the impressive number of announcements related to Xamarin made during Microsoft Connect was the anticipated GA of Xamarin.Essentials. Since Essentials is no longer in preview, I've also moved my interfaces autogeneration experiment ou…
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Introduction to ARKit
At the Queensland C# Mobile Developers meetup group's final meetup for 2018, I gave a talk on ARKit - Apple's Augmented Reality (AR) - framework for mobile, ARKit, and how you to use it with Xamarin.iOS apps, The presentation included: a high level o…
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Starting out right with Xamarin (2018 Edition)
At the Queensland C# Mobile Developers meetup group's September event, I gave an updated version of my 'Starting out right with Xamarin' presentation from 2015. Since the last iteration, quite a lot has changed in the Xamarin space but many of the pr…
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Interfaces for Xamarin.Essentials
Xamarin Essentials is a great recent initiative from the Xamarin team to provide an endorsed, comprehensive cross-platform set of APIs in a single package (read more about it on the docs page). One interesting aspect of the library is the lack of int…
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Getting the VSTS Hosted Mac Agent to restore from your custom NuGet sources
While preparing for my recent talk on Visual Studio App Center, I realised that there were a couple of limitations in the current offering that would make it difficult to implement an upcoming requirement in one of my projects. Knowing that VSTS rece…
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Introduction to Visual Studio App Center
Visual Studio App Center is Microsoft's integrated app lifecyle automation platform, recently promoted to GA. At the Queensland C# Mobile Developers meetup group's first event for 2018, I gave a talk on the service, including a broad overview of the …
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Introduction to UrhoSharp
UrhoSharp is a cross-platform 3D application and game engine for Xamarin platforms. At the Queensland C# Mobile Developers meetup group's October event, I gave a talk on the engine, including broad overview of the library, core concepts and a few dem…
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Rx-friendly NSNotificationCenter usage on Xamarin.iOS
During the course of building an iOS app, at some point you're likely to need to hook into the NSNotificationCenter functionality. Not to be confused with the consumer-side Notification Center in iOS, it provides a pub/sub-like mechanism that you can…