Mark your calendars for Xamarin Evolve 2016, taking place April 24-28 in Orlando, Florida! Join the Xamarin team and fellow developers for the largest cross-platform mobile development event in the world. Last year, Xamarin Evolve hosted a sell-out crowd of over 1,200 attendees. Speakers from leading companies including Microsoft, Dropbox, Github, Google, Accenture, and IBM […]

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One of my top priorities for Moments, a Snapchat clone built with Xamarin.Forms and Microsoft Azure, was to maximize the amount of code shared between my target platforms. I was already achieving a significant amount of shared code with Xamarin.Forms, but I noticed that many things, such as checking for device connectivity or showing a […]

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Lateral flow tests indicate the presence of specific substances in a fluid by showing one or more lines on a testing substrate. Familiar to many people in one of their simplest forms as home pregnancy tests, as the tests become more sophisticated and complex, reading them accurately becomes more challenging and time-consuming. Today, there are […]

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It was clear when Google introduced Material Design that it would shift the Android landscape even more than its Holo predecessor, and thus far the journey for developers to implement those new design principles in their apps has been a bit of a long and bumpy ride. In the beginning, Material Design was only available […]

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