Welcome to The Xamarin Show Snack Pack Edition. A Snack Pack is bite sized episode that is focused on a specific topic and covered in just a few minutes. In this Snack Pack we take a look at Xamarin.Essentials, a powerful cross-platform library that provides a clean and lightweight API to access common features on mobile platforms, in your cross-platform C# apps without writing abstractions or platform-specific code. Show Links: Xamarin.Essentials: http://aka.ms/xamarinessentials Find James on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno GitHub: http://github.com/jamesmontemagno Blog: https://montemagno.com/ and his weekly development podcast Merge Conflict: http://www.mergeconflict.fm/ Never Miss an Episode: https://twitter.com/thexamarinshow Useful Links: Xamarin Developer Center: https://developer.xamarin.com/ Xamarin Blog: http://blog.xamarin.com/ Xamarin and Azure: https://www.xamarin.com/azure Mobile DevOps: https://www.xamarin.com/mobile-devops Xamarin University Self-Guided: https://university.xamarin.com/self-guided Create a Free Account (Azure): https://aka.ms/c9-azurefree