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Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Essentials Align with Android 13
Microsoft made the announcement that Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Essentials have been updated to target Android 13, aligning with Google's requirement for new Android apps to target at least Android 13 starting from August 2023. The update aims to ensure compatibility with the latest Android version and provide a smooth transition to the future of cross-platform development, .NET MAUI.
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.NET MAUI 8 Preview 3: UI improvements, Memory Management, and NuGet Versioning
Microsoft has recently released the third preview of the .NET MAUI framework in .NET 8. This latest release includes UI improvements, focusing on memory management also. In addition, Preview 3 also brings support for NuGet package versions of the app. This means that developers will now have the ability to preview future builds and lock their applications to a specific version of .NET MAUI.
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Visual Studio 2022 v17.6 Preview 2: Productivity, Game Development and Enterprise Management
Visual Studio 2022 v17.6 Preview 2 is available, bringing new features and improvements for boosting productivity, game development, and enterprise management. The release includes updates such as a new Android Manifest Editor, Unreal Engine Code Analysis, HLSL Tools Extension, Create Member Function features, Git Stage and Commit During Build, Merge Dialog updates, and breakpoint groups, etc.
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.NET MAUI Community Toolkit 5.0.0: Enhancing User Experience with New Features and Bug Fixes
.NET MAUI Community Toolkit version 5.0.0 is packed with updates to enhance user experience with improved accessibility and functionality. Features and updates including the SemanticOrderView, FileSaverResult, FolderPickerResult, and StateContainer offer greater control and flexibility to application users. Updates and bug fixes contribute to smoother and more efficient application performance.
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.NET MAUI: Top Five New Features for Powerful Desktop App Development
Discover the top five .NET MAUI features for desktop apps: multi-window support, top-level menu bar, context menus, tooltips, and pointer gestures. Transform your app development with these essential features, enhancing user experience and device capabilities. Maximize your app's potential and deliver stunning apps with .NET MAUI.
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Uno Platform 4.7 Update Brings Simpler Solution and Performance Improvements
The open-source UI framework for cross-platform C# and XAML applications, Uno, has been updated to version 4.7. It brings a simplified solution experience in Visual Studio, performance updates on different platforms and other minor updates.
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.NET MAUI Framework Released Together with Visual Studio 2022
Microsoft announced last August that its multi-platform UI framework called MAUI has been officially released and out of preview, with the launch of Visual Studio 2022 for Windows. The release marks the official launch of the new framework for .NET programmers targeting Android and iOS devices, a direct successor to Microsoft’s Xamarin Forms framework.
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.NET MAUI Preview 9: Borders, Corners, Shadows and Performance Improvements
This month's release of the .NET MAUI Preview edition introduces the support for borders, corners, and shadows for the controls and layouts. Besides, the focus of Preview 9 was also on finalizing more than fifty controls and layouts. Preview 9 now ships with a .NET MAUI startup tracing profile which will improve the performance of Android applications startup time.
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.NET MAUI: Preview 8 Available, But GA Postponed to Q2 2022
Microsoft postponed the release of .NET MAUI. Release and global availability of .NET MAUI were targeted together with .NET 6 for November 2021. According to the latest news from Microsoft, .NET MAUI will not be ready for production with .NET 6 global availability in November this year. The new planned date is set for Q2 of 2022.
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Microsoft Releases .NET MAUI Compatibility Packages for the Xamarin Community Toolkit
As previously announced, .NET MAUI Toolkit will replace Xamarin Community Toolkit. In the same way as Xamarin, the Xamarin Community Toolkit is evolving as well, with Xamarin.Forms becoming .NET MAUI. The new Community Toolkit packages for .NET MAUI are available and fully optimized for it. Those packages are CommunityToolkit.Maui and CommunityToolkit.Maui.Markup.
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Xamarin.Essentials 1.7 with New Web Authenticator Options and .NET MAUI Essentials
Xamarin.Essentials represent the critical library that enables developers to create apps that work seamlessly across various mobile platforms, providing an easy way to access the native APIs and consume them inside of the app. Based on the numbers, it has become one of the most widely used libraries in the .NET development environment.
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.NET MAUI Summer Previews: New Layouts, Font Scaling, Alerts, Gestures, Clipping and Much More
The Microsoft team and community behind the .NET MAUI had an active and productive summer. New updates and features were introduced to the platform, giving the developers the updates in the form of Preview 6 in July and Preview 7 in August this summer. .NET MAUI summer previews introduce new layouts, font scaling, alerts, gestures, view clipping and much more...
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.NET MAUI Preview 5: Animations, Ported UI Components and Single Project Templates Updates
One month after Microsoft Build and Preview 4, the .NET MAUI team continued the progress with .NET Multi-platform App UI and now Preview 5 is here . It brings animations and the view transformation support, a couple of ported UI Components from the renderer architecture of Xamarin.Forms, and Single Project Templates updates and improvements.
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What's New in Xamarin.Forms 5.0
Xamarin.Forms is an open-source mobile UI framework from Microsoft for building iOS, Android, and Windows apps with .NET and Visual Studio. The new Xamarin.Forms 5.0 release introduces hundreds of quality improvements and brings to stable release several new controls and features including App Themes (Dark Mode), Brushes, CarouselView, RadioButton, Shapes and Paths, and SwipeView.
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Xamarin Forms 5.0 Stabilizes New Graphic and Interactive Features
Xamarin Forms 5.0 is a major new release of Xamarin open-source framework to create cross-platforms UI for iOS, Android, and Windows. It stabilizes a number of new features such as Brushes, Shapes and Paths, CarouselView, drag and drop, and more.