Announcing Xamarin 3 • Hacker News Board

Re: Announcing Xamarin 3

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Post by natfriedman » Wed, May 28, 2014, 3:30 PM UTC

miguelrochefort wrote: post #5

Awesome work guys! Can't wait to give Xamarin.Forms a try! I'm wondering how well Xamarin.Forms will work with MVVM and bindings.

Xamarin.Forms is designed to work with MVVM and data bindings: http://xamarin.com/forms

Re: Announcing Xamarin 3

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Post by natfriedman » Wed, May 28, 2014, 3:31 PM UTC

fakir wrote: post #4

Looks Great! Do you have any plans to integrate this with an MBaaS ( Azure looks like a great fit)?

We have support for Azure, Parse, and others already:

http://components.xamarin.com/view/azure-mobile-services

http://components.xamarin.com/view/parse

Re: Announcing Xamarin 3

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Post by andyjohnson0 » Wed, May 28, 2014, 3:32 PM UTC

natfriedman wrote: post #10

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #6

I appreciate that this is an initial announcement, but does anyone know what the situation is with upgrades for existing users? Edit: Forgot to say that this new version looks really good - congrats to the Xamarin team! Not having to launch XCode is going to massively improve my quality of life.

All of these features are available free to existing customers with current subscriptions!

Excellent. Thanks Nat!

Re: Announcing Xamarin 3

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Post by natfriedman » Wed, May 28, 2014, 3:33 PM UTC

nbevans wrote: post #8

Is this available to download or what? Even as a beta?

It's fully released and supported. You can download here:

http://xamarin.com/download

Re: Announcing Xamarin 3

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Post by thebouv » Wed, May 28, 2014, 3:34 PM UTC

Looking forward to giving this a try. I've built many mobile solutions in various languages / frameworks / platforms, but being new to C#, I'm eager to give this a go.

Re: Announcing Xamarin 3

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Post by miguelrochefort » Wed, May 28, 2014, 3:35 PM UTC

natfriedman wrote: post #11

miguelrochefort wrote: post #5

Awesome work guys! Can't wait to give Xamarin.Forms a try! I'm wondering how well Xamarin.Forms will work with MVVM and bindings.

Xamarin.Forms is designed to work with MVVM and data bindings: http://xamarin.com/forms

Thanks Nat! That's awesome news.

To what extend is XAML support in Xamarin.Forms? Can I use it to create multiplatform controls/views?

Re: Announcing Xamarin 3

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Post by paulsmith » Wed, May 28, 2014, 3:36 PM UTC

Site looks hosed, is there a summary of what was announced, specifically?

Re: Announcing Xamarin 3

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Post by tonyedgecombe » Wed, May 28, 2014, 3:37 PM UTC

martinald wrote: post #7

This looks amazing. Especially Xamarin forms. Surely Microsoft will acquire them soon? They'd be totally nuts not to.

What benefit would Microsoft get by buying them?

Re: Announcing Xamarin 3

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Post by natfriedman » Wed, May 28, 2014, 3:38 PM UTC

Thanks for all the kind words, everyone! This release was the result of a lot of hard work; especially the new visual designer for iOS, which took two years to build.

You can read more about our platform here:

http://xamarin.com/platform http://xamarin.com/studio http://xamarin.com/visual-studio

And our new Xamarin.Forms library is explained here: http://xamarin.com/forms

Re: Announcing Xamarin 3

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Post by yawn » Wed, May 28, 2014, 3:41 PM UTC

How well does the new Forms stuff play with existing MTD? How hard would it be to transition from MTD to Forms?