Xamarin Docs What's New (February 2020)
Welcome to what's new in Xamarin docs for February 2020. Listed below are some of the recent docs we've published.
Xamarin.Forms 4.5
Xamarin.Forms 4.5 was released in February, and includes the following new content:
- MediaElement (since moved to Xamarin Community Toolkit)
- State triggers
- Xamarin.Forms dual-screen support
- VisualStateManager: TargetName support
- Fonts: Cross-platform font support
- AndroidX support
- CarouselView: visual states
- DatePicker item selection platform-specific on iOS
- TimePicker item selection platform-specific on iOS
- TabbedPage translucent tab bar platform-specific on iOS
- VisualElement first responder platform-specific on iOS
- Default image directory platform-specific on Windows
- Shell: page presentation mode
- Display a prompt: pre-defined response
- UIWebView deprecation and app store rejection
Other
The following content is new:
- Speech recognition using Azure Speech Service
- Bind iOS Swift libraries
- Bind Android Kotlin libraries
In addition, we also refreshed all of the Xamarin.Forms landing pages, including Application fundamentals, User interface, XAML, and Data & Azure cloud services.
The following content has received significant updates:
Community contributors
We'd like to recognize the following people, who've contributed to Xamarin docs since our last release notes:
- bkokash (2)
- 0nly1ken0bi (1)
- brunck - Brian Runck (1)
- DamienDoumer - Damien Doumer (1)
- iamlawrencev - Lawrence Velasco (1)
- JamestsaiTW - James Tsai (1)
- lee-m - Lee Millward (1)
- leeenglestone - Lee Englestone (1)
- lindexi - lindexi (1)
- mallibone - mallibone (1)
- michd - MichD (1)
- neville-nazerane - Neville Nazerane (1)
- schneiderl - Lucas Gabriel Schneider (1)
- susairajs - Delpin Susai Raj (1)
- tulkjay - Jay Tulk (1)
Thank you! You can learn how to contribute by reading the Contributor guide.