Xamarin: Podcast: Test Your Way to a Five-Star App

Mobile users have extremely high expectations when it comes to mobile applications, making it more important than ever to ensure your app runs flawlessly. This week on the Xamarin Podcast, Mike and I cover everything you need to know about testing your way to a five-star app, including the importance of testing mobile apps, common […]

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Wallace B. (Wally) McClure: If You Build It, Will They Come?

Url: https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2016/01/06/app-to-market-4-listen-to-users.aspx

Users are the most important part of your application, startup, and, ultimately, business.  You must provide them something of value.  That something must resolve some pain point that they have.  It must do something to somehow make their lives easier.

This time, I’ll look back at three of the startups I have been involved with and how each one worked with the users: The first was a real estate multiple listing service that was successful; the second was a pay-for-placement search engine that was successful; the third was a FourSquare-type of service for searching local services that was formed and worked several years, then saw success dry up when FourSquare started up.

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Xamarin: Live Webinar: Diving into Xamarin Insights

The recent release of Xamarin 4 includes Xamarin Insights, which makes monitoring your mobile apps easy with everything you need to catch bugs, inspect user behavior, and track events. Join Product Manager Ian Janicki and Customer Success Engineer Glenn Wester to learn how to get started with Xamarin Insights and properly instrument our API so […]

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Xamarin: Xamarin for the Holidays Contest Winner

Before the holiday break, we asked the community to let us know how they plan to use Xamarin 4 over the holidays, and in the spirit of giving, we sent out 50 copies a day of Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms by legendary technical author Charles Petzold to everyone who participated. With so much Xamarin […]

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Adam J Wolf: Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #74

Xamarin: The Top 12 Xamarin Blog Posts of 2015 Courtney Witmer, from Xamarin Inc., counts down the top 12 posts from 2015. Changing iOS’s Back Button Text in Xamarin.Forms James Montemagno, from Xamarin Inc., with the help of fellow Xamarin Jason Smith, updates your back button. iOS User Interfaces with MvvmCross Kerry W. Lothrop shows […]

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