Using Private NuGet Feeds with .NET MAUI and Azure Pipelines

As you may already know, there’s no App Center support for .NET MAUI yet (and possibly won’t be). Trailhead is using Azure Pipelines for many of our projects, including for generating our mobile builds and distributing them to the app stores (Apple and Android). One of the challenges when you do this is bringing in […]

Adding a New Android Permission in a Xamarin App

As you know, Android is always adding features in its new versions and now the Post Notifications permission has been introduced from Android 13. In this blog, we are going to explore how to request it in our Xamarin.Android projects. Sample Project 1. Let’s set Android 13.0 as the Target framework. Open your project settings […]

Shadows Everywhere in Xamarin.Forms

As you know, Xamarin.Forms (and now .NET MAUI) allows us to create cross-platform mobile apps. However, one of the biggest challenges with these technologies is knowing how to customize your Controls and UI. In this blog, we are going to explore some awesome libraries to add cool drop shadow effects to our projects. Xamarin Community […]

Awesome Mobile Forms with Xamarin Community Toolkit

Xamarin Community Toolkit is an official library provided by Xamarin which includes animations, behaviors, converters, effects, and many other things that help speed up development. Its first stable version was released in January 2021 and since then it has been widely used in cross-platform mobile development. As an example of its power and usefulness, I’m […]