Welcome back! This post will be reviewing Chapters 9 and 10 of the book, which covers the first V in the MVVM architecture, the view. Specifically Android. Chapters 11 and 12 in the next post, will cover the views for iOS to round off Part 2 of the book and also means 2 working Android apps, woah!

Would you believe it? Part 2 of the book already! I have really enjoyed the book so far and can’t wait to see what Part 2 brings.

That’s right everyone, I am back with yet another post about Xamarin in Action. It has only been a few days since I released the last post but something big has happened in that time. Manning Publications, the publisher of the book have seen my posts and decided to share them on Twitter, wow!

I intended to try and space out the posts to one a week or something to avoid bombarding you with too many posts and giving me breathing room to take on the code. But a mixture of excitement, enjoyment of the book and the first chapter being more of a casual introduction, has led me to start writing this, the day after the last one!

So I recently purchased an early-access copy of the book Xamarin in Action by Jim Bennett, Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft.

When it comes to new features in Xamarin, especially Xamarin.Forms I can be a bit like an excited puppy. Xamarin gets me so excited!

So The Xamarin Show released a new Snack Pack Edition yesterday. In it, James does a quick introduction to the new Xamarin Android Device Manager teased recently in the Xamarin Podcast and online with the long awaited “Instant Boot” feature. Anyone that has tried to use Android emulators knows how slow they can be, especially if you have an AMD CPU and cannot benefit from HAXM Acceleration, so this is something the community has wanted for a long time.

Ooui pronounced “weeee”, is a project by Frank Krueger that he recently started to allow Xamarin.Forms to be used on the web.