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Xamarin.Essentials was casually name-dropped by Miguel and James during their sessions at Build, without being officially announced. This might be because the bits are still in Preview and they’re still working on it, but it’s looking great already! Last week the first word was out, so let’s have a first look at Xamarin.Essentials. Originally called Caboodle, Xamarin.Essentials is a single library to access native platform features for iOS, Android, and UWP that works in traditional Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms apps. Before Essentials, you had to grab one or more of the many plugins from James Montemagno. Now we can access them through one, single codebase: Xamarin.Essentials. There is already some extensive documentation available so it’s easy to play around with. Getting started Here, I’ll use Xamarin.Forms as starting point but native Xamarin.iOS or Xamarin.Android will work as well. Simply add the Xamarin.Essentials NuGet package to all Projects (iOS, Android and .NET Standard). Since it’s currently in Preview, make sure you mark the Show pre-release packages checkbox in the Add Packages window. Once you got the package in place, there’s some additional stuff you have to do to get it working on Android. We’ll need to initialise Essentials in the MainActivity and …
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Just like last year, I was able to attend the Microsoft Build conference in Seattle. The three day event was action packed with loads of interesting, technical sessions and to give an idea of the vision of Microsoft. There were a couple of great Xamarin-related announcements that I wanted to share, which sadly were a lot less than last year. Still, great Xamarin minds like Miguel, James, Mikayla and David took a spot on one of the stages at Build and shared their latest and greatest. I wanted to highlight a couple of things that got me most excited and is available for us today to create great Xamarin apps! Overview: What’s new with Visual Studio for Mac Visual Studio and Xamarin: The future of app development Cloud-connected apps with Visual Studio, Xamarin, and Azure What’s new in Xamarin.Forms 3.0 What’s new with Visual Studio for Mac by Mikayla Hutchinson Visual Studio for Mac v7.0 went Generally Available during the keynote from Build last year. At this years conference, v7.5 has been launched in Stable after being available in Preview for a while. Sweet! Mikayla went maximum purple for her talk at Build and shared some pretty cool stuff. I …
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