Customer Showcase: BBVA – Augmented Reality House Hunting

We recently launched a case study series with invited customers to explore their applications using various Microsoft technologies that address business needs. In this post, we look at Valora View, a mobile application created by BBVA. This app helps customers find properties for rent or sale with Augmented Reality,

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Preparing Android Apps for Google Play’s 64-bit Requirements

Starting with Android 5.0 apps built for introduced support for 64-bit CPUs. This is a great advancement in Android as 64-bit CPUs deliver great performance improvements for all users running apps. Earlier this year, Google announced that Android apps which include native code,

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Xamarin.Forms 4.0: Getting Started with Shell

Xamarin.Forms 4.0 introduced amazing new features to help streamline development when building beautiful mobile apps with C#. The main highlight was the new Xamarin.Forms Shell, which seeks to reduce the complexity of building mobile apps by providing fundamental app architecture features.

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Welcome to the Shell Era: Xamarin.Forms 4.0 Released

For the past year, Xamarin has been on a focused journey to improve your productivity by reducing your complexity when building cross-platform mobile applications. Notice the reference to “your” complexity, and not some abstract notion of complexity. That is because the Xamarin team spends countless hours obsessing over feedback,

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Managing HTTP & Cleartext Traffic on Android with Network Security Configuration

Did you know that starting with Android 9 (API level 28) cleartext(non-HTTPS) support is disabled by default? It is always recommended to make connections over HTTPS to ensure that any web communication is secure. This policy may have an impact on your development cycle if your app needs to download an image or file on a server hasn’t been configured for HTTPS.

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