I want to use the Cognitive speech service (real-time continuous speech to text and interim results) in the Xamarin app. Is there any SDKs or plugin available? Since REST API has some limitations (no interim results), i am unable to go with it.
Currently the SDK supports C# .NET and C++. We are expanding SDK support on other platforms. Support for .Netstandard and UWP will coming soon. Xamarin is also on our list. Please stay tuned.
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I'm a Windows developer and have written all sorts of windows client applications using C++ and C#. I wanted to write an Android app and put it on the Google Store, but I'm only equipped with Visual Studio.
I wanted to ask if it is realistic to think that I can create an app, from scratch, including engine and UI using Xamarin only. I saw there are a few Xamarin samples out there, but I didn't want to start only to find out that it's not enough for some reason.
Currently I'm struggling a bit in getting my environment right, but thought I'd throw this question here to you guys ... Maybe it's not even worth starting?
Thanks.
Yes, Xamarin can be used to develop Android apps from scratch. Xamarin has two main libraries that help with this.
Xamarin.Android will give you access to all the Android APIs directly from c#. Note that you still need to know the basic Android concepts like what is an Activity and an Intent.
The other library is Xamarin.Forms. It is a cross-platform library that will give you a basic set of UI controls and widgets that you declare usong an xml syntax, and program with C#. This library has a few limitations, but you can also use the features of Xamarin.Android alongside it to get at the missing features.
Some advice: if possible, develop and debug directly on an Android tablet. Android emulators are not that good and hard to configure. Hope this helps.
There are 2 types of Xamarin you can use.
Xamarin Forms : Which is the unified version that use XAML for the UI. It is very recommended to use this if you are building a simple application.
Xamarin Native : The "native" version of platform that are written in C#, if you want to create Android-only apps, I really recommend this, since it's very similar with the native Android code, but it's wrapped using C# (You can still using nuget package).
Shortly after Microsoft's announcement that Xamarin would be free with Visual Studio, they announced Insights merge with HockeyApp.
When I follow the Insights guide here: https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/insights/getting-started/
I only get to the new app setup before I receive the error:
An active Xamarin Platform license is required to add applications to Insights.
I've been trying to find out where to put my visual studio enterprise license code in the Xamarin portal so I can get some crash analytics with my mobile app.
I see notifications everywhere mentioning the merge with HockeyApp but I haven't found anything that says Insights is being deprecated. A 'merge' to me by definition implies that both HockeyApp and Insights are changing and they both should now be the same service.
Does anyone know the process for crash analytics in Xamarin? It looks like it's been months since their announcement but I haven't found clear direction for new mobile applications.
Insights is only available to accounts who are grandfathered in. Moving forward, they are encouraging Insights and HA users to migrate to the new VS Mobile Center (mobile.azure.com) although there is still not feature parity with the older two platforms. However, if you are primarily interested in Crash analytics that is available in Mobile Center.
I would like to develop an application both in iOS and android.
I just tried ionic framework and xamarin (forms) for the development. I found that ionic framework is not suitable for my application, but I am very impressed with Xamarin. Xamarin have only a limited support.
How can I take a Xamarin Enterprise license? Is the Enterprise license help me to get official development support?
If you have VS Professional or Enterprise you get Support from Microsoft / Xamarin, if you use the free Community Edition then you get community support, see https://www.xamarin.com/compare-visual-studio
There’s also a network of Xamarin Partners and a Consultants who can give you bespoke support tiered to exactly what you need. Email them to explain the level of support you need and they will let you know he best route
I am working on Xamarin Android application. Is there any way to use Bing Speech API with my application?
There are two ways of using the Bing Speech API. The first one is a REST service which can be called from any Xamarin.Android application (no additional components required).
The other possibility is to use the client libraries. Microsoft provides libraries for C# (Windows Phone, WPF etc.), Android and iOS. To use the library on your Xamarin.Android application, you can either try to use the C# library or create your own bindings for the Android specific Java library. Here's an article that'll help you with the binding:
Binding a Java library
Does anybody know how would I be able to access the new Mobile Apps Analytics from a Windows Phone device? it seems they have SDKs only for Android and iOS but not any REST service anyway, have anyone looked into this? thanks
Ok looks like I found my answer :) http://googleanalyticssdk.codeplex.com/ this is what we need for the long term.
Use the Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework. It was designed for Windows Phone in mind and should be your first choice when it comes to in-app analytics. It supports Google Analytics, among other services.
Also, here is now the Google Analytics SDK - you can get it on CodePlex and NuGet (note: pre-release software).