Introducing MediaPicker With the latest release of the Xamarin Mobile API Preview, in addition to improving the Contacts APIs, we added a new API: MediaPicker. The MediaPicker API provides a common API on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone for taking photos and videos, or selecting them from the media gallery. It’s a very simple API to [...]
Xamarin Contacts API Our goal at Xamarin is to make cross-platform mobile development as easy as possible. As part of that we’ve created Xamarin.Mobile, a library that runs on iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7 and abstracts commonly-used APIs to reduce developer effort in supporting multiple platforms. Sometimes, when developing a new abstract API, we [...]
We are pleased to announce that we have released a new preview of Xamarin.Mobile, our unified cross-platform API for accessing the device’s addressbook, GPS, camera and photo album. This release includes two major new features. First, we have extended Xamarin.Mobile beyond iOS and Android, to support Windows Phone as well. Second, we have introduced the MediaPicker class, [...]
Just two days ago, we launched MonoTouch 5.2, featuring a memory profiler, unit testing framework, and a new generational garbage collector. With this release we also bundled a popular library called MonoTouch.Dialog; so it’s as easy as adding a new reference to the library to include it into your project. MonoTouch.Dialog makes building native user [...]
Most of the year, the Xamarin team is spread out across the world – in 14 countries. And so, every three or four months, we all get together at our home base in Boston for a week to plan our next steps and to hang out. We call this our Xummit. This week is Xummit week, [...]
One of the great things about building a developer platform is that you never know how people will use it. We’re always excited to hear a new story about the apps people are building with MonoTouch and Mono for Android. This week we launched a new home page for MonoTouch, and we were super proud [...]