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This is the third and final post, in the three-part tutorial, on using the iOS MapKit in a Xamarin iOS project. In the first post we looked at the initial setup of the project, as well as basic generation of a map view. The previous post took a look at annotations and how to create custom annotations. In this final post we will look at search functionality using MKLocalSearch. The source code can still be found at GitHub. ...

This is the end of my third week with my brand new Surface 3, so it’s time to give a short review of it. Before I get into the review itself, I think its wise to describe what I use the Surface for, so the terms of my review is clear. The primary need for me is to have a tablet, which I can use to read and watch movies while traveling, as well as do some blogging and the occasional work at home. My SO have had an iPad for a long time, and naturally I tried it, just to see that it did not fit my needs. When the first generation Surface reached the market I were quick to buy one, with Windows 8 RT. This was OK for reading and watching movies. However it was not as good as I had hoped, a bit slow at times, and also I did not like the fact that you couldn’t install third party applications (outside the Windows Store). With that information lets move on to my review of the Surface 3. ...

The Xamarin Android Player is an Android emulator, created by Xamarin. Currently it’s in early stages, and it’s a preview version that is available for those with a Xamarin Android trials or subscription. Xamarin writes the following on the player: Xamarin Android Player has deep integration with Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio and a native user interface on both Mac & Windows. Running Android on an x86 virtual machine using hardware accelerated virtualization and OpenGL, Xamarin Android Player is significantly faster than the stock Android Emulator. ...

This is the second post, in the three part tutorial, on using the iOS MapKit in a Xamarin iOS project. In the previous post we looked at the initial setup of the project, as well as basic generation of a map view. In this part we will go through the parts needed for annotations, and we’re going to look at how to create customized annotations. The source code is still available at GitHub. ...

Lately I have been working a great amount with iOS MapKit in Xamarin, to finish my first iOS app. Going through the work I found several good resources out there on how to do this, however; common for all of them is that they have been written for earlier versions of iOS than iOS 8. This has caused several issues to pop up during development, but through some googling I have been able to make it work. Because of this I decided to write a short tutorial describing how you could go on to use iOS MapKit for an app, created with Xamarin. ...