Android Material design Floating Action Button in Xamarin Android

In Brief: Implementation steps for material design component Floating action button in xamarin android.

Xamarin android material design Snackbar customization

Another beautiful component introduced with android material design is Snackbar. Which has the features similar like a Toast message in additional with interaction capability, displays at the bottom of the screen.

Navigation Drawer using material design in Xamarin.Android.

In Brief:  Here you can see the Navigation drawer implementation in Xamarin android with simple steps and reduced code using beautiful material design.

Push notification using Google Cloud Messaging(GCM) in Xamarin.Android

In Brief:
 This Post is regarding the implementation of Remote notification or Push notification using Google cloud messaging.

Custom AlertDialog example in Xamarin.Android

In Brief:
In this post i will discuss about one of the basic and most widely used component in an android development called customized alert dialog. There are several way of implementing it, here i will show custom alertDialog creation using "DialogFragment method" and "Layout inflation to AlertDialog".

SQLite Async operation in Xamarin.iOS application

In Brief: 

SQLite is the most widely used backend for Android and iOS mobile application. SQLite is a light weight relational database stores a data to a text file on a device.In this post i'll create a sample iOS application to perform an Async SQLite CRUD operations.

How to play Youtube Video using Webview in Xamarin android

In Brief: In this post let us see the implementation steps for Youtube video streaming in Android Xamarin.

Sliding menu in Xamarin.iOS using GestureRecognizer,CATransition and Animation

In Brief:  Here I'm going through the steps involved in the Implementation of Sliding or Fly in-out menu or How to  making use of Gesture-recognizer, CATransition and Animation in Xamarin.iOS.

Xamarin.iOS Location Autocomplete by using Google Place API

In brief: 
Making use of Google place API to provide the Location auto-complete option with text field in Xamarin iOS.

Sliding/Flyout-in menu in android xamarin using Animation and Gesture detection

In Brief: This article will help you on building sliding menu and expandable description window in android xamarin with simple steps using Animation and Touch detection. 

Xamarin iOS Draw Route between two Geo-location in Google map using Direction api

In brief : Drawing path between two intended location using google direction api over google map in xamarin iOS.

Draw path between two locations in google maps v2 xamarin android

In brief: Google maps android API V2 allows the developer to integrate and customize the google map look and feel. This API handles the access to Google Maps Server,fetching map data ,display and response to map gesture.
[read more : https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/intro]
Here I will write the steps to draw path between two geo-location in android xamarin.

Using Google Geocoding and Reverse Geocoding API in Xamarin

In brief: Normally native developers prefers native api (Geocoder in android) for Geocoding and reverse geocoding, but to target the cross-platform implementation i think google geocoding is the better option.

In my previous post written on Integration of google map v2 in xamaron android, Avoiding deprecated google map api,Best Practice and issues with ListView in Android Xamarin, How to use Google Place API with Autocomplete in Xamarin Android, Integrating Google Account in Xamarin.Android,Avoiding ImageBitmap OutOfMemoryException and Rounded corner Image in android Xamarin.

Android.Gms.Maps.MapFragment.Map is obsolete deprecated xamarin android

It is always not recommended to use Obsolete API, as it involves risk of non-functioning at any point of time. In this post let us see the alternate for Google map obsolete api MapFragment.Map.

In  previous post i explained Integration of google map v2 in xamarin android,How to use Google geocode and reverse geocode api in xamarin.android, How to use Google Place API with Autocomplete in Xamarin Android,Integrating Google Account in Xamarin.Android, How to customize AlertDialog in xamarin.Android.

Using the "Map" Property of the "MapFragment" marks with a warning "Android.Gms.Maps.MapFragment.Map is obsolete deprecated". 
Instead need to make use of the method GetMapAsync(),which expects implementation of callback object of type IOnMapReadyCallback.

Login by google account integration for Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS

Brief: 
Google Account integration to the app, helps for the user authentication using their existing Google account and fetch profile information like email id,name and profile pic etc.
UPDATE: Mar 10,2017: It seems that google has been stopped webview approach for native applications. You can refer the solution provided by the xamarin doc.