G'day Everyone,

This week we don't have a lot of articles, but we do have some interesting posts on Xamarin.Shell navigation, Reactive UI and Animating Shapes. Hopefully that will keep you busy for the week ahead whilst you also digest the new look of Windows 11.

Have a great week everyone.

Kym

Weekly Xamarin  

Create a Wizard View in Xamarin.Forms: A Novice's Guide

A wizard control is an interactive, customizable user interface that can hold more than one page. It is useful in showcasing step-by-step processes, and also helps break a complex task into simple steps. This blog post covers using the Syncfusion Rotator control to create a Wizard flow.

Create a Wizard View in Xamarin.Forms: A Novice's Guide by Paul Anderson

syncfusion.com  

Exploring Keyboard accessibility in Xamarin Forms

When developing Applications it's important to keep in mind that usability and accessibility must be on top of the list of features to add. In this post, we will be learning about keyboard accessibility.

Exploring Keyboard accessibility in Xamarin Forms by Leomaris Reyes

askxammy.com  

Sharpnado Drag and Drop even moar better

DragAndDropTrigger and DragAndDropDirection - You can now choose if you want to begin the drag and drop with a Pan gesture or a LongPress.

Even better drag and drop with DragAndDropTrigger and DragAndDropDirection by Jean-Marie Alfonsi

sharpnado.com  

Passing data to view models in Xamarin.Forms

Navigation in Xamarin.Forms Shell is based on URIs. Parameters are passed between pages in the query string. Did you know, as an alternative to using the QueryProperty attribute, you can also implement the IQueryAttributable interface. You don't necessarily need to implement either of them in your page class. They work just as well in the class assigned to the page's BindingContext, which is typically your view model.

Passing data to view models in Xamarin.Forms by Damir Arh

damirscorner.com  

Animation Effects with Shapes

In this post we will learn how to create cool transition animations with Shapes and Xamarin.Forms.

How To Add Animation Effects To Xamarin.Forms with Shapes | Hacker Noon by Fabricio

hackernoon.com  

What's New in .NET MAUI Preview 5

Microsoft continues to enhance .NET MAUI (.NET Multi-platform App UI), improving animations, view transformations and single page templates, along with porting of several UI components from Xamarin.Forms, the mobile dev framework which .NET MAUI is evolving.

What's New in .NET MAUI Preview 5 -- Visual Studio Magazine by David Ramel

visualstudiomagazine.com  

Sands of MAUI: Issue #13

Sam Basu wraps up the Maui news of the week, including Preview 5 of MAUI and .NET 6.

Sands of MAUI: Issue #13 by Sam Basu

telerik.com  

TODO List using Reactive UI

Rendy works through a full sample of how to use the Reactive UI framework in Xamarin Forms by creating a ToDo List.

TODO List using Reactive UI in Xamarin Forms - Rendy's Website by Rendy Del Rosario

xamboy.com  

Upload Files with Progress Reporting in Xamarin.Forms and ASP.NET

Gerald shows how to upload a file from Xamarin.Forms to an ASP.NET REST API with chunked uploads which enables progress reporting, cancellation and even resuming uploads! All this and more in this new video!

Upload Files with Progress Reporting in Xamarin.Forms and ASP.NET by Gerald Versluis

youtube.com  

The Xamarin Podcast Episode 95: Sketch 360

Another story of an app built with Xamarin! This time find out about a unique app that takes advantage of the Surface Duo to let you create 360 degree drawings!

The Xamarin Podcast Episode 95: Sketch 360 by The Xamarin Podcast

xamarinpodcast.com  

Merge Conflict: 259: Photogrammetry

We dive deep into the latest APIs for mapping the physical world with macOS into 3D models.

Merge Conflict: 259: Photogrammetry by Merge Conflict

mergeconflict.fm  

Null Pointers 58: Remote vs in person conferences

Since early 2020 online conferences have become a thing we have attended, presented, and even organised. So what have our impressions been, and how do we compare them against in-person events? So tune in, and feel free to share your experiences with us on Twitter.

58: Remote vs in person conferences by Null Pointers

nullpointers.io