Xamarin Podcast: Xamarin.Forms Trigger Mania!

Matt

February 24th, 2020

Keeping up with the latest in .NET, C#, Xamarin, and Azure is easier than ever. Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. In this month’s episode, there’s news about every type of Xamarin.Forms Trigger, and they cover it all. And did you know Xamarin.Forms has dual screen support for the new Surface New and Duo? Tune in to find out more!

A Xamarin.Forms Trigger Here and One There…

Every new day triggers a new idea for the Xamarin.Forms team. And by the looks of it, those new ideas have been Triggers! (Which should trigger you to download the new 4.5 prerelease of Xamarin.Forms immediately!)

James and Matt go over the what all these new triggers do and how they’ll help your development experience.

Another shiny, brand new, feature of Xamarin.Forms is support for the Surface Neo and Duo. Dual screen support! There was just a big developer event where James showed off a new Xamarin.Forms reference application that takes full advantage of those dual screens, and you don’t want to miss that.

Plus, there’s new preview releases of Visual Studio for both Windows and Mac. Each with some cool new features. Tune in to find out the new newness for Hot Restart and Hot Reload!

James and Matt also run down the latest in Xamarin news, including new articles on upgrading your iOS apps before the UIWebView gets deprecated by Apple. And how you can toggle tab icons with… wait for it… Triggers!!

Matt puts his head in the clouds to talk about the latest on Azure with a quick tour of Azure Quick Start Center. And a rundown of a new feature of API Management that lets you give any consumers of your web services an A++ experience.

Plus the Azure Service of the Month!

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

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