One of the first steps with learning anything is finding available learning resources for it. So today I am just finding a list of various tutorials, blogs, podcasts, books, and video to use for self teaching.

Note: I did not thoroughly inspect any of the resources in this list. Just basic searches and brief scan of the site to come back to later if it looks like it might be useful.

Books

Some people hate reading. If thats you, go ahead and skip this category. I for one love reading, though I definitely prefer good fiction to technical books.

A quick Amazon search will give you books like:

I would encourage you to go to amazon and search for Xamarin and see what comes up.

Blogs

The Official Xamarin.com Blog
Jonathan Peppers – Author or Co-Author of a couple of the books in the list
Chris Riesgo – seemed to have several Xamarin related posts
Telerik’s Blog – viewing the posts with the Xamarin tag
Blog About Xamarin – it’s in the name
Blue Tube Inc – business blog

Podcasts

The Xamarin Podcast – pretty straightforward title
Gone Mobile – looks like they talk about Xamarin here

Written Tutorials

Xamarin’s Developer Guides
Tutsplus Xamarin Tutorial
Stormpath – Getting started with Xamarin in Visual Studio
Sitepoint Tutorial
Code Mahal – series of Xamarin tutorials
RayWenderlich.com – a getting started tutorial

Video Tutorials/ Youtube

Xamarin Forms Tutorial: Build Native Mobile Apps with C#
Xamarin Android – How to Create a Really Simple Android App
Lynda.com Tutorial
Xamarin Evolve 2016 – videos of sessions at the 2016 Xamarin conference

There’s More

There are other resources out there but this is just to get started with. Also some of these links are to another list of link.

After getting an understanding of the breadth and scope of what learning Xamarin will cover, I will be picking a more narrow topic and exploring it further.

Getting Started with Xamarin: Gathering Resources