The October Xamarin Best Practices Challenge

This is the official repository for the October Xamarin Challenge. More details about the announcement can be found on the blog post.

Below is a Work-in-progress Table of Contents (ToC). Feel free to (1) submit a Pull Request with changes of your own to the ToC, or (2) reach out to me via Twitter (@ClaudioASanchez), if you are not sure.

Table of Contents

• Setting up your project

  • Anatomy of the Visual Studio Solution

• UI

  • Styling
  • Controls
  • Theming
  • How to
  • Design Time Data

• MVVM Frameworks

  • ReactiveUI
  • FreshMVVM
  • Prism
  • MVVMCross

• Validation

• Web Services

  • Consuming Web services

• Data

  • Using local data in a mobile app
  • Offline Data
    • Caching
    • Synchronization with backend

• Using Phone Capabilities

  • GPS/Geolocation

• Push Notifications

• Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery

  • Getting Started wit Microsoft App Center
  • Distributing Apps with App Center
  • App Store publication
  • Beta Testing via App Stores

• Advanced Topics

  • Implementing Feature Flags in your Xamarin App
  • Authentication using Microsoft App Center|Trevor Tirrell
  • Crash Reporting via App Center

• Testing

  • UI Testing Basics
  • App Center Test
  • Advanced Topics
    • Best Practices for Automated UI Testing of Xamarin-based Apps

• Monitoring

  • App Analytics|Saamer Mansoor
  • Telemetry

• API Best Practices

How Do I sign up for this?

Reserve a spot by submitting an issue on the repo, as shown on the image below. Please make sure you have the following fields: Title, Author Name, Twitter Handle, Date, and Abstract.

Once reviewed and approved (by labeling it approved) we will update the Table of Content with your topic, as well as updating the Calendar.

Calendar

Day	Article	Author
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4	Signing & Versioning iOS & Android Apps	James Montemagno and Abel Wang
5	Release made easy with Appcenter	Raul Montero
6	Crashing gracefully and reporting like a pro with AppCenter	Enmanuel Toribio
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9	Start analyzing your mobile app with App Center and Application Insights	via Microsoft Docs
10	Xamarin.Forms Design Time Data Tips & Tricks	James Montemagno
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13	Getting Started with Microsoft App Center	Trevor Tirrell
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20	Best Practices for Automated UI Testing of Xamarin-based Apps	Sweeky Satpathy
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23	Keep your Xamarin app up to date with SignalR	Mark Allibone
24	Analytics Best Practices for iOS & Android	Saamer Mansoor
25	App Store publication via App Center	Abel Wang
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27	Authentication using Microsoft App Center	Trevor Tirrell
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29	Unit testing: The way I test my ViewModels	Miguel Angel Martin Hrdez
30	Roll out features with the click of a button with Feature Flags	Claudio Sanchez