Xamarin.Forms is an open source mobile UI framework from Microsoft for building iOS, Android, & Windows apps with.NET from a single shared codebase. Whether you want a consistent look across platforms or prefer native look and feel, Xamarin.Forms will get you up and running in no time. Dig deeper: Xamarin.Forms. In many cases, the latest version of Visual Studio for Mac will be backwards compatible with previous versions of the Xamarin SDKs, so you can in many cases just install those earlier Xamarin SDK versions over the current versions and leave Visual Studio for Mac and Mono Framework MDK at the latest. For Android applications, Visual Studio for Mac includes its own designer, which works with Android.axml files to visually construct user interfaces. Visual Studio for Mac will open these files in its Android Designer, as illustrated in the following image: For more information on the Android Designer, see the Xamarin.Android Designer Overview.
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This week, James is joined by friend of the show Maddy Leger, Xamarin Tooling Program manager, who shows off awesome editor updates to Visual Studio for Mac. She walks us through all of the new awesome C# editing and XAML features that will boost any developers productivity.
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