Episode 13: MVVM Helpers

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. Today, we take a look at Plugins for Xamarin and Windows enabling developers to access native functionality from shared code. Plugins for Xamarin abstract several APIs across iOS, Android, and Windows platforms including camera, geo-location, settings, permissions, connectivity, file system, notifications, and a lot more. These plugins can be installed directly from NuGet in just a few seconds.
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Very good!
How to specify the language of the Text to Speech ?
en-US
pt-BR
Very helpful, but could you show how your meant to use apis like xamarin.facebook.ios & xamarin.facebook.android? Is there not an abstracted cross platform version of these libraries or any i thinking about this all wrong :(
@Sam:Not every single API or SDK out there has a plugin, however a lot do. You can always build a simple interface and get down to the native functionality.
For doing auth take a look at: https://github.com/Clancey/SimpleAuth which handles a lot and gives a good example.
JamesMontemagno
I want to make an android app of getting current location on Xamarin. But I am unable to find the xml file on github of yours geolocator plugin.
Very cool!
Cool, really. James, any other language supported by TextToSpeech Plugin like Arabic for instance?