This is a deprecation, and your apps will continue to work for now without making this change, however we recommend refactoring before we get to. (Optional) MasterDetailPage and related types have been renamed to FlyoutPage and similar.These experimental packages are no longer being released.

DataPages and Theme packages should be removed from your solutions.You’ll probably want this library anyway as it has a lot of valuable solutions every app needs. Install this NuGet and update your code accordingly. MediaElement, Expander, and C# UI markup extensions have been moved to the Xamarin Community Toolkit library.Unless you have intentionally opted-in to UIWebView then you’re already using the newer WKWebView and won’t need to do anything additional. UIWebView has been removed to address Apple’s updated guidance.Make sure you’re using Visual Studio 2019.

There are some things that’ll help you make quick work of the migration. We have upgraded all our samples, and many of our own projects from versions of Xamarin.Forms going back as far as 3.5 with smooth sailing. To explore each new control and experience, check the resources linked below. In past blog posts we have covered features as they previewed, and your feedback has guided us to this stable mark. The Xamarin team wishes to extend a huge thank you to the many contributors and reviewers that helped make this release. This major release delivers hundreds of quality improvements and brings to stable release new features including App Themes, Brushes, CarouselView, RadioButton, Shapes and Paths, and SwipeView. Today we are publishing the latest stable release of Xamarin.Forms, version 5.0.

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