Presentation on MonkeyFest
This year i didn’t had the change to go to Singapore for MonkeyFest but i still did a presentation via Skype : “What’s new on Xamarin.Forms”
Some of the most important points were related with the performance improvments like Fast Renderers and Layout Compression, you can check the slides and notes below.
Fast Renderers
Enable fast renderes on your Android app
Forms.SetFlags(“FastRenderers_Experimental”)
LayoutCompression
Enable compressed layout on your layouts using the attached property
CompressedLayout.IsHeadless=”true”
GTK
Known issues – https://github.com/jsuarezruiz/forms-gtk-progress/blob/master/Issues-Pending.md
https://github.com/jsuarezruiz/forms-gtk-progress/blob/master/images/weather-debug-linux.gif
– Create new Class library
[STAThread]static void Main(string[] args){global::Gtk.Application.Init(); Forms.Init();var app = new App();var window = new FormsWindow();window.LoadApplication(app);window.SetApplicationTitle(“MonkeyFest”); window.Show();global::Gtk.Application.Run();}