Xamarin.Essentials - Cross-Platform APIs for Mobile Apps | The Xamarin Show: Snack Pack

Welcome to The Xamarin Show Snack Pack Edition. A Snack Pack is bite sized episode that is focused on a specific topic and covered in just a few minutes. In this Snack Pack we take a look at Xamarin.Essentials, a powerful cross-platform library that provides a clean and lightweight API to access common features on mobile platforms, in your cross-platform C# apps without writing abstractions or platform-specific code.

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[dsuess]

Dude, very nice win!! Thanks, James, for putting all of your plugins under one roof

[sifl]

You're my hero!! I especially like that it doesn't bloat the app size and reduces out the API's not being used. Awesome work team!

[FarhanAden]

James, i am currently using your DeviceInfoPlugin, if use xamarin essentials how can get the deviceId ?

[mpumelelokhoza]

Hey do have a tutorial for using API to get data from the server

[AyberkZeray]

This is what we heavyly need. Thanks Xamarin !

[sll]

Very slick! True native cross platform development, excited to try this out

[zimcoder]

Wow, You guys keep adding value to Xamarin. Thanks.

[AntiThesis]

What is the chance of us seeing Bluetooth here in the future?

[ydahm]

This is amazing ! Makes my life easier managing preferences

[heshanlk]

Turn on subtitles and it's picking up your name as "James Mountain Magnet" Hahahahaha :D

[plantdigization]

Haha, turn on CC and it says "I'm your host James mountain magnet"

[BenHayat]

Best thing MSFT did was to buy Xamarin. It gave it life.