Now if you have read some of my previous posts, we started making heavy investment improving our editing experience for Android XML resources (originally only layout files) last year which first got delivered in the Visual Studio 2017 15.8 release and kept being improved in Visual Studio 2019.Īt the time the landscape was quite different, Visual Studio for Mac and Visual Studio had only a few shared APIs (Roslyn mainly) and developing certain features (like editor extensions) required rewriting portion of the same code twice. In this post I want to focus on how we got there with specifically the Android side (I will speak about XAML in a future entry). You can read through the announcement above for the high-level improvements. This release is important for us as it’s the first one to contain our improved editor experience for Android XML resources and Xamarin Forms XAML files both enabled by the port of the Visual Studio editor to the Mac. We released this week the first 8.2 preview of Visual Studio for Mac.

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