WeeklyXamarin.mobile

Mobile Application for the Weekly Xamarin Newsletter

• iOS:

Functional Requirements

• View Issues
• View Articles
  • Inside the application (Reader view if we can)
  • Launch out to default browser
• View Contributors (curation or articles)
• Add an article (submit an article for review) - via a share target
• View events (streams, meetups, large events)
• Search articles (title, description, author, tags)
• Push Notifications (of new articles)
• Save an article
• Mark an article as a favorite
• Upvote articles
• Suggest topics to provide a backlog of ideas for content creators

Functional - Nice To Haves

• Cache HTML of articles for offline view (maybe a user setting)

Non-Functional Requirements

• Theming (dark / light / custom modes)
• No Auth - user not required to login
• CI/CD Github Actions
• Testing builds and releases (AppCenter)
• UITests (maybe depending on the complexity and cost)
• Caching of Newsletter Issues (Editions) & Articles (Titles, authors, tags, links)

Goals

• Recognise the community
• No Backend - No hosting infrastructure

Platforms

• iOS, Android (Priority 1)
• UWP (maybe via UNO), Wasm, MacOS, Linux (Nice to have)
• Blazor
• Dual Screen

Tech

• Xamarin.Forms
• Shell
• Pancakes - all the way down
• Lottie
• Caching - Akavache, MonkeyCache

Development

• Very open source, anyone can contribute to the app
• Contributions welcome (and acknowledged)