The .NET MAUI Podcast

We're back at it again with a customer success story. In this episode, learn how you can use the ONNX runtime to add in on-device machine learning to your apps.

Show Notes

• Machine Learning in .NET with ONNX Runtime
• ONNX Runtime
• Microsoft ONNX Runtime GitHub
• ONNX GitHub
• ONNX Model Zoo
• Netron

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Show Notes

Can you believe there were 2 .NET MAUI previews since our last episode? Come on in and listen and David Ortinau breaks all of the newness down.

And we have more on the latest releases of Visual Studio and the latest Azure news too!

New releases

• .NET MAUI Preview 11
• .NET MAUI Preview 12
• New .NET MAUI documentation
• Visual Studio 17.1 Preview 2
• Facebook SDK v12.2 for Xamarin

Latest news

• Create .NET Microservices - Learn LIve Series
• .NET Podcast app

Cloud news

• Intro to Azure Chaos Studio
• Azure Cosmos DB Conf Call For Papers open!
• Azure Cosmos DB Conf
• More new Azure SDKs

Azure service of the month

• Azure Container Registry

Pick of the Pod

• Microsoft Clarity

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• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
• David: Twitter, Github

Another customer success story! ScreenMedia develops apps for a multitude of customers and find out how much fun they're having.

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Show Notes

Join Matt & James as they review the new .NET MAUI features, how to author Visual Studio extensions and the latest Azure news.

New releases

• dot.net available in 2 new languages

Latest news

• Writing Visual Studio Extensions made even easier
• VSIX Cookbook
• Everything you wanted to know about Onnx
• MobCat GitHub

Cloud news

• Tune Azure Storage uploads

Azure service of the month

• Azure Orbital
• See Azure Orbital in action

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
• David: Twitter, Github

It's another customer success story! This time learn how the M365 team created an app that allows you to administer your M365 instance on the go!

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Show Notes

James, David, and Matt go over .NET 6 and .NET Conf and all the goodness!

New releases

• .NET MAUI Update
• .NET 6 Release
• Visual Studio 2022
• VS 2022 UI Upgrades
• Personalize Docs in VS2022
• C# 10

Latest news

• Journey to accessible apps
• Xamarin platform updates

Cloud news

• Azure Container Apps

Azure service of the month

• Azure Form Recognizer

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
• David: Twitter, Github

Show Notes

All the previews and release candidates you could ever want. .NET 6 RC 2 - the final RC. .NET MAUI Preview 9, Visual Studio RC and Preview 5 - there's even a Visual Studio for Mac preview to talk about!

Tune in as David and Matt talk all about the previews!

New releases

• .NET MAUI Update
• VS 2022 Mac Preview 1
• VS 2022 Release Candidate and Preview 5
• .NET 6 Release Candidate 2

Latest news

• .NET Conf
• Visual Studio Theme Converter

Cloud news

• Azure REST API Guidelines

Azure service of the month

• QnA Maker

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• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
• David: Twitter, Github

We have a special show today where we're going to learn all about Azure IoT and a Xamarin app that helps you explore it.

Stefan Wick, Rido Minguez Pablos, and Ben Buttigieg join us to tell us about the app and Azure IoT.

Show Notes

• Azure IoT
• Azure IoT Central
• Azure IoT Hub

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Show Notes

.NET 6 release candidate is out ... and that means there's big news around .NET MAUI. Tune in to find out what David Ortinau has to say!

New releases

• .NET MAUI update
• .NET 6 release candidate 1
• Visual Studio 2022 preview 4

Latest news

• .NET Conf

Azure service of the month

• Azure Monitor

Cloud news

• Azure Monitor .NET SDK
• Azure Cosmos DB end-to-end example
• Entity Framework 6 Core with Azure Cosmos DB

Pick of the pod

• Fig
• Stowage

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
• David: Twitter, Github

Show Notes

Can you believe it - the Xamarin Podcast is now the .NET MAUI Podcast?!? New name - same great flavor!

We talk about .NET, Visual Studio, Azure, and of course .NET MAUI!

This month there's a new preview of .NET MAUI, a bunch of Visual Studio updates, news on the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit and Essentials, and of course more Azure than you can you can shake a stick at.

New releases

• .NET MAUI Update
  • MAUI Themes
• VS Mac 2022 private preview
• VS 2019 v16.11
• VS 2022 preview 3

Latest news

• VS 2022 and hot reload
• VS 2022 personalization
• VS 2022 multi-repo support
• .NET MAUI community toolkit
• .NET MAUI Essentials

Cloud news

• Intro to the unified Azure SDK
• Target random users with push notifications

Azure service of the month

• Azure Logic Apps

Pick of the pod

• Blazorize

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
• David: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/davidortinau}, [Github](https://github.com/davidortinau}

Show Notes

It's over. Done. Final. Caput. No more. This is the last Xamarin podcast ever. What's going to happen next month? Tune in to find out.

But also tune in to find out about the latest updates on .NET MAUI, Visual Studio 2022, what happened to the Xamarin Forums, and learn how to use Chromecast from your Xamarin apps!

New releases

• Visual Studio 2022 - Preview 1

Latest news

• New .NET forums
• New .NET MAUI forums
• Chromecast with Xamarin.Forms

New Videos

• Shiny 2.0

Cloud news

• Azure Functions: Discover OpenAPI

Azure service of the month

• Azure Traffic Manager

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• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
• David: Twitter, GitHub

Another story of an app built with Xamarin!

This time find out about a unique app that takes advantage of the Surface Duo to let you create 360 degree drawings!

Download the Sketch 360 app
Sketch 360 GitHub repo
Microsoft Garage project
More info about Sketch 360 for Surface Duo
Surface Duo documentation

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• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Show Notes

Can you believe it - Build has come and gone and there's so much goodness to talk about with .NET MAUI - and David Ortinau is back to fill us all in.

Plus we have the latest updates on the updates to Visual Studio and Visual Studio Mac and how to make your Xamarin.Forms apps more accessible and beautiful. And there's some great cloud news for Azure Function fans!

All this and more!

New releases

• .NET MAUI update
• Visual Studio v16.10 and v16.11 preview out
• Visual Studio Mac v8.10 out

Latest news

• Journey to accessible apps - screen readers
• Building beautiful apps with Xamarin.Forms

Cloud news

• OpenAPI support for Xamarin.Forms

New videos

• Hanselman and friends developer keynote
• Build playlist

Azure service of the month

• Azure Functions

Pick of the pod

• Project Tye
• Build your first microservice with .NET | Learn module

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Special Guest: David Ortinau.

Another customer success story! This time find out how Blackbaud started from no Xamarin experience to delivering a complexing mobile payment terminal to help nonprofits - even with bindings to hardware!

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• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

This month James & Matt welcome back David Ortinau from an update on .NET MAUI and all the other goodness that you expect.

Show Notes

New releases

• Visual Studio v16.10 Preview 2
• Visual Studio 2022 Update
  • Cascadia Code

Latest news

• Xamarin accessible apps
  • The Journey to Accessible Apps
  • Accessible apps on the Xamarin Show
  • Xamarin Community Toolkit updates for accessibility
  • Accessibility Learn module
  • Microsoft Ability Summit

Cloud news

• Optimize costs w/ Azure Blob Storage
• Learn modules: OpenAPI & API Management & Visual Studio

New Videos

• C# Highlights
  • Ranges
  • Tuple pattern matching
  • Default interface methods
• csharp.dev
• Let's Learn .NET

Azure service of the month!

• Azure IoT Central

Pick of the pod!

• James: SQLite.NET
• Matt: Zebra Xing

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It's another customer story - this time find out how LivePerson enables apps to talk with a live person in customer support scenarios.

Show Notes

• Find out more about LivePerson
• WebRTC on iOS

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• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

David Ortinau sites down with us to answer a TON of listener questions on .NET MAUI. Plus we got some cloud news & of course the Pick of the Pod!!

Show Notes

Latest news

• Great looking settings screens for Xamarin.Forms

Cloud news

• Microservice March w/ Let's Learn Microservices
• Cloud Learning Resources for .NET Devs

Azure service of the month!

• Azure Health Bot

Pick of the pod!

• Visual Studio XAML Code Generation
• Comet Extension for VS Code
• Learn Live

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Special Guest: David Ortinau.

It's another customer story - and on this podcast hear about the amazing app that pairs with snowmobiles, motorcycles, off-road, and other powersports vehicles.

Find out how the developers at Polaris created an app that allows you to find trails, and track your position along the trail - so you can ride safely. And make sure your friends do too. And it even generates 3D fly-thrus of your ride so you can share them later!

All of that and more on this Xamarin Podcast!

Show Notes

• Ride Command
• Memory Management and Profiling - The Xamarin Show
• CollectionView Drag & Drop

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• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Special Guest: Alexey Strakh.

Matt and James are joined by David Ortinau for a special update on .NET MAUI. Plus a whole lot of other updates on new releases of Visual Studio for Mac and Windows, the latest news on the Xamarin Community Toolkit, and an amazing ASP.NET Core Web API series ... yes, we talk web in a Xamarin pod!

Show Notes

New releases

• MAUI Update w/ David Ortinau
• .NET 6 – Preview 1
• Visual Studio v16.9 out – v16.10 preview 1
• What's new in Visual Studio 16.9 Live Stream
• Visual Studio Mac 8.9

Latest news

• Tabs w/ Xamarin Community Toolkit
• CollectionVew with drag & drop w/ gestures

Updated content

• HTTP API series

Cloud news

• Azure Functions for .NET 5 in prod
• Learn Live
• Make the perfect Cheetos with AI

Azure service of the month!

• Azure Communication Services

Pick of the pod!

• Fast Design
• Hello World

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Special Guest: David Ortinau.

It's the Xamarin Community Toolkit extravaganza!

The toolkit it out! It's glorious! You should use it today because it'll solve all of your Xamarin app development needs!

.... or it'll at least make your life a bit easier ...

James and Matt talk all about the Community Toolkit, what's all inside of it, and the new video series that goes along with it too! And they also talk about customizing Radio Buttons to your exact UI needs. .NET MAUI ... .NET MAUI .. and more .NET MAUI - and they even sneak in some time to talk about some new great content for Xamarin developers on Microsoft Learn!

And can you believe it - a whole lot more!

Show Notes

• Announcing the Xamarin Community Toolkit
• Check out the great Xamarin Community Tookit docs!
• All those Community Toolkit Xamarin Shows!
• Build a custom radio button
• A whole lot of news on .NET Multi-platform App UI
• Microsoft Learn: Consume REST services with Xamarin
• And the new docs on consuming REST services with Xamarin
• Azure DevOps Demo Generator
• The Launch Space: Surface Duo for .NET and Xamarin Developers
• Azure Notification Hubs
• James' in-app billing library

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• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Tune in to find out how Medusa used Xamarin and Azure to create an app to help the mobile healthcare clinician in the field to capture patient care info!

• XamCat code samples
• Medusa Medical

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• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Xamarin.Forms 5.0 has just been released.

And it's all Xamarin.Forms 5 all the time in this special podcast!

Principal Program Manager David Ortinau join James and Matt to lead them through all the new exciting bits in Xamarin.Forms 5.0.

Show Notes

• Xamarin.Forms 5 is here!
• NYE at the Space Needle
• My Cadence app

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In this podcast Matt interviews Kiran Gandla and Chandra Poshala from American Airlines about the app that helps keep the airline running.

Xamarin and Azure play a big part and our very own MCAT team helped pave the way too!

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

It's the end of the year and in December's podcast James and Matt wrap up 2020 by talking about a cool new app that lets you draw 360 degree sketches with the Surface Duo - made with Xamarin.Forms! Azure Mobile Apps v4.2 is official, there's a brand new Microsoft Q&A site. And you don't want to miss a sneak preview of what's to come with .NET MAUI!

Show Notes

New Releases

• Sketch360 + Xamarin.Forms + Surface Duo
• Azure Mobile Apps v4.2
• Visual Studio 16.9 Preview 2

Latest News

• Microsoft Q&A for .NET
• .NET MAUI update

Azure News

• Azure Friday Serverless API Series - Part 1
• Part 2

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure Event Hubs

Pick of the Pod!

• 5 must install NuGet packages
• Coding fonts
• Xamarin Weekly Newsletter

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

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• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

iRel8 is an amazing app built with Xamarin that helps people during the toughest moments in life.

iRel8 facilitates mental wellness using Xamarin - find out the heartfelt story behind this app in this episode of the Xamarin podcast.

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

This month James and Matt talk about the new Apple silicone, XBox ... and of course some Xamarin and Azure too!

.NET 5 is out! And with that there are some great Xamarin enhancements in the latest version of Visual Studio. Find out how to update your Android manifest files so you can still send emails in Android 11. And there's a new version of Azure Mobile App Services ... what?!?

Show Notes

New Releases

• .NET 5
• .NET Conf
• All the new Xamarin newness (XAML Hot Reload 2.0 with Binding Failures, iOS Hot Restart)

Latest News

• Query & Interact with Apps in Android 11 with Package Visibility
• In app reviews for Android apps
• Xamarin Community Toolkit Hacktoberfest 2020 Recap

Azure News

• Azure Mobile App Services 2.4
• Azure Mobile App Services SQLite Client
• Zumo Book

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure Event Grid

Pick of the Pod!

• XBox
• Xamarin.Forms Community Toolkit

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

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• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Seeing AI is an app for iOS that narrates the world around you. And it's built with Xamarin and Azure. In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Matt talks to the folks behind Seeing AI.

The history of the app, how it was built, and the challenges and successes encountered along the way.

All of this in this episode of the Xamarin Podcast.

Download Seeing AI today - it's amazing!

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Special Guests: Alexey Strakh and Saqib Shaikh.

This month James and Matt talk about all of the new releases that are out and ready for you to code with in October!

There's a new iOS. There has to be a new XCode then too. What would another month be without a new Xamarin.Forms preview release be? And this one is Xamarin.Forms 5!! And there's Xamarin.Essentials too!

It's not all new releases though in this pod - lots of news to talk about too.

Hack your way to some swag with Hacktoberfest. Find out about the Fabulous world of functional programming. And did you know the Oscars have an app - and it's made with Xamarin?!?

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

Show Notes

New Releases

• XCode 12 & iOS 14
• Xamarin.Forms 5 preview
• Xamarin.Essentials 1.6 preview
• Xamarin.Essentials 1.6 feature matrix

Latest News

• Hacktoberfest with Xamarin
• Fabulous Functional App Dev
• Oscars Customer Showcase

Azure News

• Create: Serverless videos

New Xamarin Videos

• Xamarin.Forms code snippets
• Replicating user profile UI
• Community Standup
• On .NET Live

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure Bastion

Pick of the Pod!

• StreamDeck toolkit

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
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In this special episode of the Xamarin Podcast - Matt talks to the folks behind the Oscars app.

You'll find out a ton of great insights on how the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences built a Xamarin.tvOS app, lift and shifted their infrastructure to Azure, and released a Xamarin.Forms app too.

All with a little help with our friends from Microsoft's Mobile Customer Advisory Team!

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This month James and Matt talk about new Microsoft Learn modules on the Surface Duo. The continuing saga of the Xamarin.Forms Shell quick tips.

Of course it's a new month and that means there's a new preview version of Visual Studio! Find out all the goodness that goes along with that.

If you wanted to detect if your app was run for the first time ever, or the first time for a new version, or whatevs... Xamarin.Essentials has you covered with a great API.

James and Matt also talk about how to really supercharge your Xamarin.Android app startup times.

There's a ton of Azure news too ... including some confusion over what exactly the service of the month should be!

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

Show Notes

New Releases

• Visual Studio v16.8 Preview 2
• XAML hot reload for UWP in action
• Microsoft Learn Surface Duo Developer Training for Xamarin.Forms

Latest News

• App first run detection with Xamarin.Essentials
• Profiling Xamarin.Android startup
• Xamarin.Forms Shell Quick Tips: Modal Navigation

Azure News

• Managed Identities w/ Azure Functions
• Azure Cosmos DB for the SQL Professional
• Understanding Azure Cosmos DB for relational data

Azure Service of the Month

• Managed Identities

Pick of the Pod!

• Microsoft Word

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

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• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Lots of new stuff to talk about this month!

Ever want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some drawing in Xamarin.Forms! Well, now in Xamarin.Forms 4.8 you can!

James and Matt discuss all the ins and outs of brushes, gradients and shapes and how you can implement them in your Xamarin.Forms app.

There's also new releases for Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac. Find out about how you can make your .NET meetups shine - and attend some new ones too.

And tell us all about your experience about Entity Framework and Xamarin.

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

Show Notes

New Releases

• Xamarin.Forms 4.8
• Visual Studio 2019 v16.7
• Visual Studio for Mac
• Twitch Visual Studio channel

Latest News

• Multi-lingual support in Xamarin.Forms
• Drawing your user interface in Xamarin.Forms with shapes and paths
• A Dev Story: College Diary with Xamarin.Forms
• Meetup resources, presentations and workshops
• .NET Foundation virtual user groups
• .NET Conf Focus on Microservices

Azure News

• Quick start with Xamarin.Forms and Entity Framework
• 61 videos of beginner Azure SQL content

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure App Configuration

Pick of the Pod!

• Matt: Microsoft.Identity.Web
• James: PancakeView v2

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

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Xamarin.Forms 4.7 is out and the Inverter Converter is all the rage!!

... well ... multi-value bindings are all the rage - but that doesn't have quite the ring of Inverter Converter.

This month James and Matt run down the rest of the great features in Xamarin.Forms 4.7 including how it helps you manage light and dark themes, eliminates the need for James' image circle plug-in, and makes writing Grid row and column definitions so, so, so much easier.

Tune in to hear about some new requirements for submitting Android 10 apps to the Google Play store and get some quick tips on implementing back navigation with Xamarin.Forms Shell too!

Plus - get your blog featured on an upcoming podcast by registering your blog with Planet Xamarin today!

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

Show Notes

• Register your blog on Planet Xamarin

New Releases

• Xamarin.Forms 4.7 new features
• Xamarin.Forms multi-bindings
• Android 10 requirements

Latest News

• Shell Quick Tip: Back navigation

Azure News

• Azure SQL is the best database for developers
• Azure SQL is the best on Data Exposed

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure Custom Vision Service
• Power Automate

Pick of the Pod!

• Matt: Fluent design system icons
• James: Sharpnado

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

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//Build 2020 just happened - remotely!

James and Matt recap all of the great Xamarin announcements - and then you can go out and watch all the sessions.

Plus this episode covers how to build iOS extension while reusing some Xamarin.Forms pages a new Azure + Mobile documentation center and so much more.

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

Show Notes

Latest News

• Xamarin Build Updates
• .NET MAUI
• Learn TV
• Learn what Learn TV is all about
• Shell Quick Tip: Passing Data
• Reuse Xamarin.Forms pages in iOS extensions

Azure News

• New Xamarin + Azure developer center
• Choosing the correct cloud messaging format

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure Storage Queues

Pick of the Pod!

• Matt -Using settings.json & local.settings.json in Xamarin apps
• James - Virtual .NET User Groups

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Hope everybody is staying healthy!

We have lots of news and new releases to cover this month for you!

Xamarin.Essentials and Xamarin.Forms have new releases. And the Xamarin engineering team was hard at work to get a cross-platform API out for the new contact tracing API from Apple and Google.

James and Matt also talk about //Build, a couple of cool new case studies, and recap the wackiness of the Crazy Cognitive Service Combo Challenge!

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

Show Notes

Latest Releases

• Xamarin.Essentials 1.6 is on the loose
• Xamarin.Forms 4.6 brand new features
• Find out about the new Contact Tracing API

Events

• Register for //Build now!

Xamarin News

• Crazy Cognitive Services Combo Challenge Wrap-Up
• Volotea + PGS Software Case Study
• Changesets with Azure SQL
• Magic Gradients ... with animated gradients!

Azure News

• Brokered Auth in MSAL.NET
• Azure Cosmos DB and Minecraft World Case Study

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure Maps

Pick of the Pod!

• Matt - Material Frame with Blur
• James - Azure Table Storage

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

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Logically embed that authentication ... that doesn't make sense at all ... or does it?

Well it does when James and Matt talk about Azure Logic Apps, embedded fonts, and the brand new Xamarin.Essentials authentication!

Yeah - they have nothing to do with each other whatsoever! 😄

But James and Matt talk about a whole lot more - including a wrap-up of the recently completed .NET Conf - Focus on Xamarin, new releases of Visual Studio for Windows and Mac, and great new tools for making your Android apps faster!

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

Show Notes

Latest Releases

• Visual Studio 16.5 and VS Mac 8.5
• Visual Studio Previews
• Faster Android Startup with Startup Tracing Custom Profiles
• Social Authentication with Xamarin.Essentials

Xamarin News

• Increase Binding Possibilities with RelativeSource
• Embedded Fonts in Xamarin.Forms
• .NET Conf - Focus on Xamarin Wrap-up
• .NET Conf - Focus on Xamarin Slides

Azure News

• Make Azure Logic Apps Easy

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure Logic Apps

Pick of the Pod!

• Matt - HTTPTracer
• James - Sharpnado: Acrylic Frame

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

This month James and Matt talk about Xamarin.Forms, Xamarin, and everything related to Xamarin - you could say they Focus on Xamarin.

That's because on March 23, 2020 there's a live streaming event called .NET Conf - Focus on Xamarin! Tune in to get a preview of all the great content coming up.

But of course there's more in store in this pod too! You want the best features of Xamarin.Forms 4.5? You got it. Not enough & you want 4.6 pre-release news too? Done & done! Haven't heard enough about AndroidX yet - well fill you in some more. And we'll even let you know how Xamarin.Essentials released both 1.4 and 1.5 at the same time! (hint... it's all related to AndroidX!)

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

Show Notes

Latest Releases

• AndroidX NuGet packages are stable

Xamarin News

• 5 things to be excited about in Xamarin.Forms 4.5
• Xamarin.Forms 4.6-pre release notes
• Xamarin.Essentials 1.4 & 1.5 are out
• How to bind Swift libraries
• The iOS - Swift Nuke library for Xamarin.Forms
• How to bind Kotlin libraries
• Did you know you can make every Forms layout a repeater?!?

Azure News

• Azure Cosmos DB has a free tier!
• Find parking spots with Custom Vision and IoT

Azure Service of the Month

• Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Events

• .NET Conf - Focus on Xamarin

Pick of the Pod!

• Matt - Azure SQL changetable
• James - Task Loader View

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

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• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

It's trigger-mania! Mania! On the dancefloor!

This month James and Matt talk about Xamarin.Forms triggers every chance they get - because there's trigger news everywhere!

The dancing doesn't stop there though - Microsoft has new dual screen devices coming out, and you can bet that Xamarin.Forms supports them! We got you covered with all those details.

Xamarin.Forms 4.5 has a pre-release, and you'll want to tune in to find out what great features await you!

Speaking of new features... Visual Studio for Windows and Mac have great new previews out ... what's that I hear? Hot restart and multi-target hot reload?!? Whaa??

There's some cloud news on an Azure Quickstart Center and Azure API Management.

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month!

Show Notes

Latest Releases

• Xamarin goes dual screen
• Surface Duo and Neo dev with Xamarin.Forms
• All about M365 Developer Day
• Watch the M365 Keynote
• Xamarin.Forms 4.5 (pre) Release Notes
• Everything you wanted to know about Visual Studio 2019 v16.5 Preview 2
• And the lowdown on Visual Studio for Mac v8.5 Preview 2

Xamarin News

• Visual State Manager with Target Name
• DevOps for Android App Bundles
• Toggle tab icons with triggers and styles
• That poor UIWebView is going to be deprecated

Azure News

• Azure Quick Start Center has the answers to all your questions
• How cool is API Management? It just got cooler!

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure Managed Identities

Events

• .NET Conf - Focus on Xamarin
• VS for Mac Refresh

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New Year - New Decade - New Pod!!

This month James and Matt recover from their holiday hacks to go over the latest and greatest in the world of Xamarin!

There's a new version of Xamarin.Essentials out for the new year. And the new year also brings back a look at the top blogs and videos of 2019.

Whew - the community sure came up with a ton of great ideas for the Santa Talk Challenge and Matt & James talk about the best.

There's a hot new XAML hot reload tips and tricks article you must read and give you the scoop on gRPC and Azure Service Bus.

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and the Pick of the Pod!

Show Notes

Latest Releases

• Xamarin.Essentials 1.4.0-pre

Xamarin News

• Santa Talk Challenge Recap
• Top blogs of 2019
• Top videos of 2019
• Android App Bundles
• XAML Hot Reload Tips & Tricks
• James Holiday Hacks

Azure News

• Creating gRPC Microservices with .NET
• Azure Service Bus From the Ground Up
• Azure Service Bus Core Features
• Advanced Features with Azure Service Bus

Blazor Conf

• Blazor Conf

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure Service Bus

Pick of the Pod

• Sharpnado
• Magic Gradients

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Everything that's new ends with a 4!

This month James and Matt go over the big releases of Visual Studio 16.4 and Xamarin.Forms 4.4!

But there's more than the latest releases! There's news galore! Snnpts Challenge results. Hacktoberfest, and 5 quick tips for getting the most out of the CollectionView are covered.

Would you like to know how serverless fits into Cloud Native? What about the new Azure SDKs? Done and done.

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and the Pick of the Pod!

Show Notes

Visual Studio 16.4

• Quick blog recapping all new features
• XAML HOT RELOAD 🔥🔄 IS FINALLY IN GA!
• Cool Xamarin Show on Android App Bundles
• Read all about AndroidX libraries
• Introduction to Android X for Xamarin | Xamarin Show

Xamarin.Forms 4.4

• Xamarin.Forms 4.4 Introduction Post
• More info on the IndicatorView
• You wanna know more about the SwipeView don't you?
• Animated GIFs - can you believe it?!?
• CarouselView is a'coming!

Xamarin News

• The Snnpts Challenge
• The Snnpts Challenge Results
• Hacktoberfest Winners
• These 5 Quick Tips on the CollectionView will change your life forever
• And don't forget this 6th tip on pull-to-refresh!

Azure News

• How Serverless Fits in With Cloud Native
• Azure Core and Azure.NET SDK Libs | On.NET Show
• Securing Azure Apps with Azure.Identity SDK

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure DevOps
• Mobile DevOps Series

Pick of the Pod

• JeffSum.NET
• StateSquid

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In this month's episode James and Matt talk a bit about everything.

From previewing this year's HUGE Ignite Conference, to talking about the incredible bumper on Matt's new Channel 9 show - Partly Cloudy - the guys hit it all this month.

They also discuss the new release of Xamarin.Forms 4.3 , and how to find out what's new with the new stuff!

James explains the new App Bundle Support coming to Visual Studio - and why that's a great thing for you and your Android applications! That and a ton of great Azure goodness too!

Plus the Pick of the Pod!

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

Show Notes

• Check out the Ignte Tour!
• Matt's Partly Cloudy Show
• The latest new features released
• Learn more about RefreshView
• Draw some polygons on your maps!
• Pin that map up real good!
• CarouselView Challenge wrapup
• App Bundles on the Xamarin Show
• New Community Standup site - live.dot.net
• Download the Azure + Xamarin Infographic poster
• More Xamarin Developer Summit videos!
• Microsoft Mobile Landing Page
• New documentation on doing mobile apps with Microsoft tech!
• Buy your monkeys here!
• DAPR
• Azure App Configuration
• Azure CDN Docs
• Put a CDN over the BLOB storage
• Git branching model
• Context Menu

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In this month's episode James and Matt recap .NET Conf!

.NET Conf just happened and if you missed anything don't worry, because... We. Have. You. Covered.

There were a ton of great announcements and we talk about them all. Including all of the Xamarin related sessions, what Hot Restart is, and the release of a ton of .NET 101 videos.

Oh ... and did you know that XAML Hot Reload is hiding in plain sight within the stable version of Visual Studio!?!? We have all of that, and cloud news, and the Azure service of the month.

Plus the Pick of the Pod!

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

Show Notes

• Check out all the goodness of .NET Conf!
• Read all the Xamarin .NET Conf Announcements
• More in-depth announcement on iOS 13
• You want the Android announcement - you got it!
• Hot Restart announcement
• Check out the Hot Reload docs!
• iOS 13 docs
• Android 10 docs
• Xamarin + Azure Functions Challenge
• CarouselView Challenge Wrap-Up Post
• Xamarin Community Stand-Up ... See how the CarouselView works!
• On .NET - Azure Function Custom Bindings
• Azure Functions Bindings docs
• DevOps for Mobile Show Intro
• Every DevOps for Mobile Show - more added as they're released!
• Find out more about Azure Storage
• Put a CDN over the BLOB storage
• FFImageLoading
• PancakeView

.NET Conf Xamarin Sessions

• Xamarin.Forms - More Productive and Beautiful Than Ever
• Build Amazing Cloud Connected Apps with Xamarin, Azure, and App Center
• Building Modern Android Applications with Android
• Boosting Your Xamarin Development Productivity
• The Keynote
• Xamarin YouTube playlist

.NET 101 Video Series

• .NET for Apache Spark Series
• Xamarin 101 Series
• C# 101 Series

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In this month's episode James and Matt talk a bit about everything.

iOS 13 and Android 10 are hot off the presses. Xamarin.Forms 4.2 is too! There's something cool called Boots that will keep your feet dry in the pool of continuous integration and Azure Functions now has Dependency Injection!

Plus the Pick of the Pod!

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Show Notes

• Check out all the goodness of .NET Conf!
• Reserve your spot in Redmond for .NET Conf
• Get started with iOS 13
• Get started with Android 10
• All the newness of Xamarin.Forms 4.2
• CollectionView pull-to-refresh PR
• CarouselView Challenge!!
• Boot up your CI to the next level!
• Hot reload goes to public preview
• Android performance and app size challenge
• Modernize apps for dark mode
• Compiled bindings!?!
• Compiled bindings documentation
• On .NET Show - Azure Functions Dependency Injection
• Azure Functions dependency injection docs
• Cloud Native Show - .NET Core
• Azure Container Registry
• Fastlane
• Bing Search APIs

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In this month's episode James and Matt love Android almost as much as they love going to the dentist ... seriously!

There's a ton of Android goodness to discuss and they tackle it all!

You've heard of Android Start-up Tracing - now find out how it makes your app faster!
What's all the hubbub about AndroidX? James has got your covered!
And did you know there's a great session from the Xamarin Developer Summit that you can watch that shows you the what, how, and why to optimizing your Android build?!? You bet there is and you can stream it on demand!

There's more than Android in this months episode!

Visual Studio of Visual Studio for Mac get updates. There's a super cool app out there that does everything you ever wanted with contacts IN FOUR LINES OF CODE! And App Center is releasing features like crazy!

All of that, plus the Azure Service of the Month and the Pick of the Pod!

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

Show Notes

• Theming Visual Studio Just Got Easier!
• Visual Studio 16.2 Release Blog
• You want VS for Mac updates? We got 'em here!
• Android Startup Tracing Explained
• Check out the Android Startup Tracking Video!
• AndroidX stands for Android eXcellent!
• AndroidX video! AndroidX video!
• Xamarin Developer Summit Videos
• Xamarin Developer Summit Keynote
• The Future of App Center at the Xamarin Developer Summit
• Partly Cloudy - Tips and Tricks to Using Azure to Its Fullest at the Xamarin Developer Summit
• Speed up those Android Build Times! From the Xam Dev Summit
• Optimize those Android Builds - The Blog
• World's Best Contacts App
• WPF and WinForms into App Center
• All the latest App Center News

Azure Service of the Month!

• Cloud Shell ALL the things
• Stay warm and fuzzy in the Storage Explorer GUI

Picks of the Pod!

• MVVM Helpers
• State Squid

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It's July and we're in Houston for the Xamarin Developer Summit!!

And it's 🔥🔥🔥hot hot hot🔥🔥🔥!!

But it's not the temperature outside - it's because Xamarin.Forms XAML now has HOT RELOAD! 🔥🔄

If that's not mind bending enough - we cover a ton of other great stuff in this pod too! There's a ton, ton, ton of new Android improvements. AndroidX, startup tracing, JetPacks - find out what those all are!

Did you know that Tizen supports Xamarin.Essentials? You do now! VS Mac has better XAML Intellisense, and learn all about the goodness that is Azure Cosmos DB.

Plus there's a whole lot more too!

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

Show Notes

• XAML Hot Reload 🔥🔄
• Android App Bundles
• iOS 13 Preview Available
• Get Started With iOS 13
• Xamarin.Essentials Docs
• Automatic Android SDK Management
• New VS Mac XAML Intellisense
• Tizen for Xamarin.Essentials!
• VS Mac 8.2 Preview
• Smaller DEX's on Android => Faster Apps!
• Migrate those macOS apps to 64 bit!
• Find out more on how to implement for multiple device resolutions!
• Visual Studio App Center
• App Center Auth
• App Center Data
• MSAL! MSAL! MSAL!
• Azure Cosmos DB
• Xamarin Media Manager
• Debug Rainbows

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Wait no more to set a high score with Xamarin.Forms 4, it ain't no bore! That's right, Xamarin.Forms 4.0 has officially been released and it's on fire! Join James and Matt as they discuss the new features of 4.0, preview this summer's Xamarin Developer Summit, talk about some Android fun, and explore the ins and outs of Azure Event Grid.

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Show Notes

• Office hours are back!
• Xamarin.Forms 4.0 Intro Blog
• The Xamarin.Forms 4 live stream recording
• Intro to Shell Blog
• The Docs for Shell
• Can you believe the Shell navigation?!?
• Find out what makes those Android fast renderers so fastt!
• Unify all the ImageSourceTypes
• You gotta be kidding me - Xamarin.Forms 4.1?!?
• Join us at the Xamarin Developer Summit!
• Prep those Droid apps for Google 64 bit
• Get a deeper dive into all that 64 bit goodness
• Demystify Android SSL and cleartext!
• Check out Merge Conflict for all the WWDC news
• MSAL 4.0 - Auth All the Things!
• Microsoft Learn - IT'S STILL FREE!!!
• Cloud Shell seem cool? Learn more!
• Azure Event Grid Overview
• Hanselman.Forms
• Pick of the Pod - Pancake View

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It's the first full week in May and that can only mean one thing - it's Microsoft //Build time!! Join James and Matt as they recap the highlights and announcements from this year's Build event.

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

Show Notes

• Build playlist on Xamarin YouTube channel
• .NET 5 announcement
• Visual Studio App Center Auth
• Visual Studio App Center Data
• Visual Studio App Center announcements
• Big-time updates to Cognitive Services
• Cognitive Services Personalizer
• Cognitive Services Forms Recognizer
• Cognitive Services on Containers
• Visual Studio Online
• Cloud Shell Editor - VS Code in the Portal!
• Windows Terminal
• Xamarin API docs open sourced
• Xamarin courses on Microsoft Learn - FREE!!!
• CollectionView Challenge PRs
• Shrink You Android App Size
• The new xamarin.com
• Use GitHub to sign-in to the Azure portal
• ... and associate your GitHub and Microsoft accounts...
• CaptionR

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After all the preview releases - Visual Studio 2019 finally was released and this week Matt and James run down the highlights for Xamarin developers! This episode isn't just limited to VS2019 though - Android, Apple Watch, Xamarin.iOS, and a surprise announcement await too! Tune in!

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

Show Notes

• What's New In Visual Studio 2019
• Visual Studio 2019 Release Notes
• What's New for Xamarin Developers in Visual Studio 2019
• Visual Studio 2019 for Mac is Available
• Introducing the Xamarin.iOS Interpreter
• GlideX - Fast Images on Android
• Get those Apple Watch apps updated
• .NET - Xamarin Community Standup
• .NET Foundation Community Presentations - Choose your own adventure!
• .NET Foundation Swag Swag Swag!
• Real-time Serverless with SignalR and Azure Functions
• SignalR and Functions Documentation
• .NET Community Stand-up with SignalR streaming API
• Pick of the Pod! Prism AD B2C Plugin

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Lots of new great stuff to talk about this month! New, new, new web pages galore! Xamarin landing documentation page, Xamarin development blog, and customer app showcase! James tells us how to debug ASP.NET Core Web APIs from Android, and find out what POP means. All of that this month and more!

Show Notes

• Brand new Xamarin documentation landing page!
• One stop shop for all the Microsoft development blogs
• Xamarin app customer showcase - get inspired!
• XamU getting Twitch-y
• The Twitch Live Coders team
• Catch James on Twitch
• Updatng the Hanselman.Forms app
• Debug those ASP.NET Web APIs on Android Emulators
• Primo PDFs with SyncFusion
• Pop! Pop! UI Testing with the Page Object Pattern
• Become a speaker at Microsoft //Build
• Get your //Build tickets!
• Explore the new App Center features. Raise and comment on the issues for the features too!
• Azure App Configurations - one config to rule them all
• Xamarin.Forms 3.5 release notes
• 5 Things You'll Love About Xamarin.Forms 3.5
• Xamarin.Forms Essentials 1.1.0
• Visual Studio 2019 RC notes
• Visual Studio for Mac Preview 3
• MSAL 3.0 Preview
• Forms 9-patch all the things - the forum post
• Forms 9-patch all the things - the website
• Forms 9-patch all the things - the guide
• Selected / Unselected Xamarin.Forms tab colors

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In this episode, James and Matt discuss the latest previews of Visual Studio and Visual for Mac. There's new stuff for Xamarin.Forms, Android keeps on getting faster, App Center's new features are mapped out, and C++ makes an appearance?!? Tune in for all of this and more!

Show Notes

• Download the Visual Studio 2019 Preview
• What's in VS 2019 For You!
• Intellisense and Intellicode Improvements
• Intellicode Using ML? No Way!
• R8 and D8 - The Dexer and Shrinker
• Add Some C++ To Your Xamarin App!
• Cosmos DB - SQL API - Xamarin Tutorial In the Docs
• Cosmos DB - MongoDB API - Xamarin Tutorial In the Docs
• Azure KeyVault
• Azure KeyVault App Service References
• Xamarin.Essentials
• Visual Studio 15.9.6 Release Notes
• Visual Studio for Mac 7.7.3 Release Notes

Pick of the Pod!!!

• VS Code Azure Extensions
• Skia Sharp Fiddle

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In this first episode of the New Year - and the second month in a row - James and Matt chat about the office hours that Matt's been hosting with the community. James has some big news about Hockey App ... or is that App Center now? Xamarin University is retiring, but Xamarin.Essentials is now a star of its own video series!

James will give you a rundown of his hands on experiences with Xamarin.Forms 4.0 and introduce you to the new .NET Community Stand-Ups. In cloud news - there's a new Azure Cosmos DB SDK in town and Matt loves the auth - and there's news about auth in Azure Functions!

And we have new release news for you too! Xamarin.Essentials, Visual Studio 2017, Android Support 28 Libraries, and Unity support in App Center. Plus the Pick of the Pod!

• Get yourself some free Azure!
• Sign up for office hours with Matt
• Read about December 2018 office hour recap
• Hockey App's future in App Center
• The Hockey App cutover experience
• Microsoft Learn - find out and sign up!
• Xamarin University retirement FAQ
• Mark Smith - head of XamU - explaining what the retirements means for you
• The Xamarin (Essentials) Show
• Essential API of the Week - Connectivity
• In-depth blog on the Collection View
• Xamarin.Forms 4.0 preview blog
• James' Twitch stream on Forms 4.0
• Merge Conflict episode on Forms 4.0
• Azure Cosmos DB - .NET 3.0 SDK
• Get at that ClaimsPrincipal in Azure Functions!
• Unity support in App Center? You bet!
• Walk through the front door with Azure Front Door
• CrossGeeks Rating Slider
• Rating Slide blog

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In this month's episode we reboot the podcast! Matt Soucoup, a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft joins James as host and we expand the topics to focus both on Xamarin mobile development and using Azure with your mobile apps.

In this episode we recap the latest news in the Xamarin world including a marathon Twitch workshop, wondering Android build time improvements, the latest news in Xamarin.Forms, and recent announcements from Microsoft Connect();. We also cover the latest in Azure news, including DevOps, MSAL, and new Azure Cosmos DB pricing.

All of this, and a whole lot more!

Links:

• Get Some Free Azure!
• Twitch Workshop: Build Your First Mobile App with C#, Xamarin, and the Cloud
• Android build performance and reliability!
• Tabbing and Keyboard Navigation in Xamarin.Forms
• Image Button
• Span Class
• Decorate that Xamarin.Forms Label!
• Xamarin.Forms Editor
• GlideX
• Learn more about Azure DevOps
• MSAL 2.0 - Authenticate all the things - now better!
• New Azure Cosmos DB shared database offer
• 2018 Connect Announcements for Xamarin
• Xamarin.Forms Shell
• Xamarin.Forms Visual
• Forget about the ListView and use the CollectionView!
• James' Twitch - Implementing an iOS Checkbox for Xamarin.Forms
• Xamarin.Essentials - it's in GA! and check out the code!
• Super early preview release notes for Xamarin.Forms 4.0-pre! and while you're at it - give it a spin in your apps!
• Get the Visual Studio 2019 Preview!
• The machines are coming for our intellisense! VS Intellicode
• Zeplin - speed up your design process
• Azure CLI
• Microsoft Ignite | The Tour

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In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce Boggan and James Montemagno discuss the latest & greatest in mobile .NET development, including Xamarin.Forms 3.0 and 3.1, Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 and 15.8, updates to the Android designer, and more!

2:00 Getting your Android apps ready for Google Play's new Target API level requirements
8:00 See Xamarin.Forms 3.0 in action with the open-source conference vision app
10:40 Using MongoDB with Xamarin apps
12:05 What's new in the Android designer
17:00 Mobile Build Tools & new Android MSBuild properties
17:30 Xamarin Essentials
22:05 Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 - new Xamarin.Forms XAML IntelliSense, automatic iOS provisioning, new project templates
25:00 Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 - Hyper-V Android emulator, improvements to the incremental build process, Android designer and Forms Previewer improvements
27:55 Xamarin.Forms 3.1
32:40 Pick of the Podcast

• Getting Android Apps Ready for Google Play's Target API Level Requirements
• Build 2018 Conference Vision Demo App
• Use MongoDB with Your Xamarin Apps
• What's New in the Android Designer
• Xamarin Essentials
• Securing & Versioning Apps with Mobile Build Tools
• Using MSBuild to Define Advanced Android VersionCode
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7
• New XAML IntelliSense in 15.7
• New Project Templates in 15.7
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8
• Xamarin.Forms 3.0
• Visual State Manager
• FlexLayout
• CSS
• Xamarin.Forms 3.1
• Prism Template Pack

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In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce Boggan and James Montemagno discuss news from Build 2018 for mobile developers, including Xamarin.Forms 3.0, Hyper-V support for the Android emulator, Xamarin Essentials, and updates to Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio for Mac.

6:20 What's new in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7
6:30 New XAML IntelliSense engine
9:55 Automatic iOS provisioning
13:00 Eager deployment for Android app development
14:15 Android SDK management
16:00 New Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android project templates
17:10 Hyper-V support for the Android emulator
24:30 Xamarin.Essentials
33:30 Xamarin.Forms 3.0

• All Things Xamarin at Build 2018
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7
• New Xamarin.Forms IntelliSense
• Automatic Provisioning in Visual Studio 2017
• Eager Deployment
• New Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android Project Templates
• Hyper-V support for the Android emulator
• Xamarin Essentials Documentation
• Xamarin.Forms 3.0
• Visual State Manager
• FlexLayout
• CSS
• Right-to-left Localization

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In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce Boggan and James Montemagno discuss all of the fun features from the new Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 stable release, including macOS environment setup and iOS WiFi deployment. They also discuss building AR and ML into your mobile apps, and take a look at how you can add Tizen as a deployment target for your Xamarin.Forms apps.

3:30 HOT BITS! Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6
10:30 Build some AR into your apps with UrhoSharp 1.8
14:00 Navigation patterns in Xamarin.Forms
19:00 Building apps for Tizen devices (phones, tablets, watches, and tvs!)
22:00 Update your tvOS apps on the fly with tvML
24:10 Machine learning with CoreML + Xamarin + Custom Vision Service
28:10 Behaviors in Xamarin.Forms
28:45 Adding a search bar to iOS lists
30:30 BONUS Bachelor Finale thoughts!

Show Links:

• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6
• The New Feature-Packed UrhoSharp 1.8
• New Xamarin University Course: Navigation Patterns
• Add Tizen Projects to Your Xamarin.Forms Apps
• Create and host tvOS TVML Apps with Azure & Xamarin
• Extend Xamarin.Forms Control Functionality with Behaviors
• Add a Search Bar to Your Xamarin Apps in iOS 11

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In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce Boggan and James Montemagno talk about a new tool that turns drawings into Android or UWP layouts, merged dictionaries coming to Xamarin.Forms, ways to make your Android emulator experience more awesome, and configuring CI for mobile apps with VSTS.

7:00 Ink to Code
10:00 Wireless deploy to iPhone (Windows & Mac)
12:20 New Preview: Xamarin Android Device Manager
13:45 Speed up your Android emulator boots with quick boot
14:40 Google Play on your Android emulator
16:35 Merged dictionaries come to Xamarin.Forms
21:15 Contribute to Xamarin.Forms F100 effort
24:45 Building Xamarin.Android/iOS apps in VSTS hosted agents
26:10 Unit testing Xamarin.iOS apps in VSTS
28:30 QuickType.io

Show Links:

• Ink to Code
• Wireless Deploy to iPhone (Windows & Mac)
• Preview: Xamarin Android Device Manager
• Android Emulator Quick Boot
• Just Push Play: Using Google Play on an Android Emulator
• Better Resource Organization with Xamarin.Forms
• F100
• Running Xamarin.iOS Unit Tests in VSTS
• Building Xamarin.Android apps in VSTS Hosted Agents
• Building Xamarin.iOS apps in VSTS Hosted Agents
• QuickType.io

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In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce Boggan and James Montemagno cover Android 8.1, the new Xamarin Device Manager Preview, what’s new for mobile developers in Visual Studio versions 15.5/15.6, and share their favorite Xamarin moments from 2017.

4:45 Android 8.1 (API 27) now available to developers
5:15 Try the new Xamarin Android Device Manager preview
12:15 Updates to the iOS storyboard designer
14:05 Automatic iOS app provisioning
16:00 CoreML programming with Xamarin.Mac and F#
17:20 Top 12 blog.xamarin.com posts of 2017
23:00 SmartHotel360 - New reference mobile app built with Xamarin.Forms
24:00 New Webinar - Visual Studio App Center
25:30 Visual Studio version 15.5 is now in stable channels
29:00 Visual Studio version 15.6 is now in preview
34:20 Pick of the Week

Show Links:

• Xamarin.Android Support for Android 8.1
• Xamarin Device Manager Preview
• Updates to the Xamarin.iOS designer
• Automatic iOS app provisioning with fastlane
• CoreML Programming with Xamarin.Mac & F#
• Top 12 Blogs of 2017
• The Xamarin Show: Getting Started with MVVM
• Introducing the SmartHotel360 Reference Apps
• Webinar: Visual Studio App Center
• See what's new in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 Preview
• VSTS Mobile Build Tasks Extension
• Xamarin.Forms Video Player
• Media Manager Plugin for Xamarin
• Media Plugin for Xamarin & Windows

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In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James Montemagno and Pierce Boggan cover the latest news for mobile developers from Microsoft Connect(); 2017, including updates to Xamarin.Forms, the Live Player, Visual Studio 2017, and Visual Studio for Mac.

4:15 .NET Standard comes to File -> New -> Xamarin.Forms App
9:30 What's new in the Xamarin Live Player - .NET Standard support, SkiaSharp support, and updates to onboarding
13:00 Visual Studio Team Services gets even more awesome - hosted macOS agents and secure files
16:00 How to catch up on Connect(); announcements
18:25 Xamarin.Forms 2.5 - Native Forms, layout compression, iOS 11, improved macOS desktop support
25:30 Sunsetting Xamarin Components - what you need to know
28:00 What's new in Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac for mobile developers
33:15 Help us make Xamarin faster in Visual Studio 2017
34:10 Library/Tool/Product of the Week

Show Links:

• .NET Standard comes to File -> New -> Xamarin.Forms
• Streamlined Testflight Registration with Fastlane
• Simplified App Signing with Secure Files in VSTS
• Microsoft Connect(); Sessions for Xamarin Developers
• Three Big Things to Explore in Xamarin.Forms 2.5.0
• Making iOS 11 Even Easier with Xamarin.Forms
• Sunsetting the Component Store
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 Preview Release Notes
• Visual Studio for Mac version 15.5 Preview Release Notes
• Help us make Xamarin faster in Visual Studio 2017
• AppCenter.ms

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In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James is joined by App Center program manager James White. We sit down and cover all of the amazing announcements from this years Connect(); 2017 event. Sit back, relax and get ready for tons of Xamarin goodness with Native Forms, .NET Embedding, App Center's General Availability, and so much more!

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Special Guest: James White.

Links:

• App Center
• Connect(); 2017 Videos
• Xamarin Announcements from Microsoft Connect(); 2017
• Visual Studio Live Share

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James Montemagno and Pierce Boggan cover Xamarin support for Android Oreo and iOS 11, share tips for beating the learning curve with Xamarin.Forms, talk upcoming releases in the pipeline, and more!

6:00 Building Xamarin apps for Android Oreo & iOS 11
12:15 Xamarin.Forms: Tips for Beating the Learning Curve
14:40 Installing Visual Studio 2017 previews side-by-side with stable (and sandboxing!)
18:25 Protecting your Xamarin apps with Dotfuscator
20:00 dotNetConf Announcements & Sessions
24:45 New stable release for Xamarin developers
26:00 Xamarin.Forms 2.4.0-prerelease
28:00 Package/Tool of the Podcast

Show Links:

• Xamarin.Android 8.0 Gets Even Sweeter with Oreo
• Get Your Apps Ready for iOS 11
• Xamarin.Forms: Tips for Beating the Learning Curve
• Installing Visual Studio Previews
• Protecting Apps with Dotfuscator
• dotNetConf
• dotNetConf: What's New in Xamarin
• Stable Release: 15.3.5 with Xcode 9 and iOS 11 Support
• Xamarin.Forms 2.4.0-pre
• [Waffle.io](waffle.io)
• Quicktype: Json to C#

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In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James Montemagno and Pierce Boggan discuss LOTs of new previews for Xamarin developers, including Android O, Xamarin Live Player, iOS 11, and Xamarin.Forms previews for you to try in addition to some exciting community updates.

2:00 Xamarin Live Player Preview 2: Continuously Run & Debug Apps
6:30 New free Xamarin University certification level
10:25 Xamarin MVPs join Microsoft MVPs
13:50 Share more code with .NET Standard 2.0
16:45 Exploring UrhoSharp 3D with Xamarin Workbooks
18:00 Android Oreo support
19:15 New updates for mobile developers in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4 Preview 2
21:50 iOS 11 & Xcode 9 Previews
24:10 Xamarin.Forms 2.4.0-pre2
25:00 Pierce's Tool of the Podcast: Xamarin AppMap from Infragistics
27:20 James' Package of the Podcast: Connectivity Plugin for Xamarin 4.0

Show Links:

• Xamarin Live Player Preview 2: Continuously Run & Debug Apps
• Introducing the Xamarin Certified Mobile Professional Badge
• Bringing Communities Together: Xamarin MVPs Join Microsoft MVPs
• Share more code with .NET Standard 2.0
• Webinar: Exploring UrhoSharp 3D with Xamarin Workbooks
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4 Preview 2
• iOS 11 & Xcode 9 Previews
• Xamarin.Forms 2.4.0-pre2
• Xamarin AppMap from Infragistics
• New Connectivity Plugin for Xamarin

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In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James Montemagno and Pierce Boggan discuss the new Google Play Services packages, adding Facebook authentication to your mobile apps, and the latest Xamarin preview and stable releases.

4:15 Updates to the Android Support Libraries and Google Play Services
9:10 Adding native Facebook authentication to your apps
14:30 Integrating with OneDrive for Business (and other Office APIs)
17:00 Realm Goes .NET Core
20:00 Xamarin app of the week
22:10 Mobile dev for desktop developers
23:00 New stable and preview releases for Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac
32:00 Tool/Package of the Week

Show Links:

• Fast & Simple Android Location Updates with Google Play Services
• Native Android Facebook Authentication with Azure App Service
• Adding Storage to Mobile Apps with OneDrive for Business
• Introducing .NET Core Support for Realm
• Speech Central Makes it Easier to Browse the Internet Hands-Free
• Webinar: Take your .NET Skills from the Desktop to Android and iOS
• Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.3 Released
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4 Preview 1 Release Notes
• Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin 4.7 Release Notes
• Visual Studio for Mac 7.2 Release Notes
• SQLite.NET
• FFImageLoading

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In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James Montemagno and Pierce Boggan cover the latest mobile .NET development news, including how to get started contributing to Xamarin.Forms, C# 7 tips & tricks, validating user input, Android's BottomNavigationView, and new Xamarin releases.

4:30 How to contribute to Xamarin.Forms
9:30 Validating user input in Xamarin.Forms
12:00 Android's BottomNavigationView - What is it, when should I use it, and how do I integrate it into my apps
19:05 - What's new in C# 7
24:00 - Awesome upcoming Xamarin University lectures on MVVMCross, Prism, Unity, and Roslyn
27:25 - Recent Xamarin Shows on Azure AD and Azure Functions
31:00 New Xamarin releases for version 15.4 and Xcode 9/iOS 11
35:10 Package/Tool of the Podcast

Show Links:

• Beginner's Guide to Contributing for Xamarin.Forms
• Validation in Xamarin.Forms Apps
• Exploring Android's BottomNavigationView
• Getting Started with C# 7
• Join Us for Upcoming Xamarin University Guest Lectures
• Xamarin Show Episode 27: Azure Active Directory Authentication
• Xamarin Show Episode 28: Azure Functions for Mobile Apps
• Alpha Release: 15.4 Alpha 1
• Beta Release: 15.3 Preview 7
• Preview: Xcode 9 Beta 4, iOS 11, macOS 10.13 Support - Preview 3
• Android Design Support Library
• Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK

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In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James and Pierce discuss the Xamarin iOS 11 web preview, the latest in Visual Studio for Mac, and our experiences using Visual Studio Mobile Center.

3:50 - XAML productivity tools in Visual Studio for Mac (MFractor)
6:10 - Mastering the Android Support Libraries
9:00 - How to install Visual Studio 2017 offline - great for conferences and trainings
11:15 - Updates to Mobile Center
13:30 - Apps built with Xamarin - Urban Refuge, Guitar Center, Nintendo Switch
19:20 - New Xamarin previews, including our first iOS 11 web preview
25:00 - What's new in Visual Studio for Mac
29:25 - Package/Tool of the Podcast

Show Links:

• MFractor
• MFractor: Getting Started
• Mastering Android Support Libraries
• Visual Studio 2017 Offline Installation
• Mobile Center
• Case Study: Urban Refuge
• Case Study: Guitar Center
• Nintendo Switch App
• 15.3 Preview 4 Beta Release
• iOS 11 Web Preview
• Microsoft Authentication Library
• Fastlane

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• Pierce: Twitter, GitHub

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In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James and Pierce fill you in on the latest Xamarin news, including how to integrate ads and in-app purchases into your mobile apps, migrating to .NET Standard, planet-scale apps with Cosmos DB, and more!

4:00 - Cool apps built with Xamarin recently
7:30 - Azure Cosmos DB
14:30 - App monetization with ads + in-app purchases in Xamarin apps
20:30 - Last Xamarin Dev Days dates + locations for this year announced
23:00 - Migrating your Xamarin.Forms apps to .NET Standard
29:15 - New updates to Plugins for Xamarin
32:40 - Try out the latest Xamarin previews for Visual Studio and Xamarin.Forms
36:50 - Tool/Package of the Podcast

Show Links:

• Case Study: Aggreko
• Case Study: Minnesota Twins
• Going Global with Xamarin and Azure Cosmos DB
• Azure Cosmos DB
• Join us at a Xamarin Dev Days near you
• Building Xamarin.Forms Apps with .NET Standard
• The Xamarin Show: Upgrading Xamarin.Forms to .NET Standard
• Visual Studio 15.3 Preview 3
• Xamarin.Forms 2.3.5-pre6
• Media Manager Plugin
• Version Tracking Plugin

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In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce is joined by James Montemagno, Principal Program Manager for Mobile Developer Tools at Microsoft, to recap the latest news for Xamarin developers, including our thoughts on WWDC 2017, new features in Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac, why Xamarin.Forms Embedding matters, and more.

6:00 - WWDC 2017 and iOS 11
11:30 - Easy app provisioning with the Fastlane tools
14:55 - How to boost your app startup time
17:30 - New libraries for Azure identity + Microsoft Graph, including Azure AD and Azure AD B2C
21:10 - Xamarin.Forms Embedding: What is it and why does it matter?
25:10 - What's in Visual Studio 15.2.3 stable and 15.3 previews for Xamarin developers
29:45 - Package/Tool/Library of the Week

Show Links

• WWDC 2017 Recap for iOS Developers
• Merge Conflict Special Edition: WWDC Recap
• Easy iOS App Provisioning with Fastlane and Visual Studio for Mac
• 5 Ways to Boost Xamarin.Forms App Startup Time
• Enterprise Apps Made Easy with New Libraries for Authentication and the Microsoft Graph
• Unleashed: Embedding Xamarin.Forms in Xamarin Native
• Why Xamarin.Forms Embedding Matters
• LottieFiles: Prebuilt high quality animations
• .NET Templating Engine

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In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce and David walk you through the early preview of Xamarin.Forms 3.0, announced at Microsoft Build 2017. Learn about new ways you can use Xamarin.Forms in your apps, speed and performance enhancements, and what new platforms are coming to Xamarin.Forms.

Show Notes:

0:30 - Microsoft Build
4:00 - Xamarin.Forms 3
5:50 - Standardization of custom renderers
6:15 - Xamarin.Forms Embedding
11:45 - Fast renderers and layout compression for increased performance
16:00 - Performance benchmarking in Xamarin.Forms
18:15 - One-time binding mode
20:00 - New FlexLayout system
21:30 - New "backends" for Xamarin.Forms - macOS, GTK#, and WPF
27:00 - Community-driven development
29:45 - XAML Standard 1.0

Links & Show Notes:

• The Xamarin Podcast website
• Channel 9: Designing Mobile Apps
• Channel 9: What's new in Xamarin.Forms
• Xamarin.Forms 3.0
• Pierce: Twitter, GitHub
• David Ortinau: Twitter, GitHub

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Special Guest: David Ortinau.

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James Montemagno is joined by Jon Dick of the Xamarin components team to discuss the Android Support Libraries and Google Play Services. Don't miss this super informative episode overviewing what these important libraries are, why they are necessary, what's new, and how to use them in your apps today.

7:00 - What are the Android Support Libraries?
8:30 - Is it possible to build your app without the Android Support Libraries?
11:45 - What does each Android Support Library do?
15:00 - Versioning for Android Support Libraries, especially in relation to Xamarin.Forms
16:45 - Should you always be using the latest version of the Android Support Libraries?
25:00 - New things in the Android Support Libraries
33:00 - Overview of Google Play Services
44:00 - Tool/Package/Extension of the Week

• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Jon: Twitter, GitHub

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Special Guest: Jon Dick.

Links:

• Improvements coming to Xamarin Google Play Services – Redth
• Your App Needs More Google Play Services • Xamarin Evolve 2016 — Jonathan Dick is developer who hails from The Great White North and has been slinging C# for mobile since it was born.
• Implementing Push Notifications in Your Android Apps | Xamarin Blog
• Picking your compileSdkVersion, minSdkVersion, targetSdkVersion
• Snack Pack 11: Understanding Android API Level Settings | The Xamarin Show
• Pick of Show: EditorConfigLanguage: A Visual Studio extension
• Pick of Show: NGraphics is a cross platform library for rendering vector graphics
• Coffeehouse Blunders

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce Boggan is joined by James Montemagno to discuss what is new for Xamarin developers, including new features in the latest Visual Studio for Mac preview, Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4/2.3.5-pre, and updates to Visual Studio Mobile Center.

Show Notes:

5:00 - What's new in Visual Studio for Mac (C# 7, web editors, Azure publishing, .NET Core enhancements)

10:30 - Xamarin documentation is now multilingual (with Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese localizations)

12:00 - Updates to Xamarin University, including monthly pricing

14:00 - Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4

14:55 - Device.OS & TargetPlatform changes in Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4

19:15 - Xamarin.Forms 2.3.5 prerelease

22:15 - Bringing macOS to Xamarin.Forms

25:15 - TLS 1.2 overview

28:15 - Updates to Visual Studio Mobile Center

32:00 - Developer Tool of the Week

Links & Show Notes:

• The Xamarin Podcast website
• Visual Studio for Mac to the Cloud & Beyond
• Xamarin Documentation Goes Multilingual
• Monthly Pricing for Xamarin University
• Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4
• Podcast: Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4 & Beyond
• Xamarin.Forms: Device.OS changes
• Xamarin.Forms: OnPlatform changes
• Xamarin.Forms 2.3.5
• Preview: Bringing macOS to Xamarin.Forms
• Xamarin.Forms Performance Thread
• Securing Web Requests with TLS 1.2
• Visual Studio Extension: Snippet Designer
• Android Keystore Signature Tool
• Amazing James Montemagno Gif
• Pierce: Twitter, GitHub
• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast

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In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce Boggan is joined by David Ortinau, PM at Microsoft for Xamarin.Forms, to discuss the release of Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4 and what's on the roadmap for Xamarin.Forms moving forward.

Show Notes:

01:30 - Introducing the new PM for Xamarin.Forms, David Ortinau

02:30 - What does a typical day look like for David as a PM?

04:30 - Release of Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4 to stable

05:50 - Performance & quality improvements

12:00 - Enhancements to XAMLC

13:50 - New bindable picker control

16:00 - Evolution forum for evolving the future of Xamarin.Forms

17:00 - OnIdiom support for desktop

22:25 - New "nightly" master builds for Xamarin.Forms and other fun ways of trying preview features

27:55 - What are fast renderers? How can they improve the performance of Xamarin.Forms apps?

Links & Show Notes:

• The Xamarin Podcast website
• Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4 Overview, Release Notes
• Feature Roadmap for Xamarin.Forms
• Evolution Forum
• Nightly Builds
• Pierce: Twitter, GitHub
• David Ortinau: Twitter, GitHub

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Special Guest: David Ortinau.

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce Boggan is joined by Matthew Robbins to discuss his XAML productivity tool MFractor, building addins for Xamarin Studio, code generation with Roslyn, and his journey from idea to product.

Show Notes:

01:20 - What is MFractor?

04:45 - How Matthew drives feature development for MFractor

07:00 - Journey from idea to product

09:30 - Building add-ins for Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio for Mac

13:45 - Cool tricks anyone can do with Roslyn

22:00 - The moment Matthew realized this could be a product

23:00 - Roslyn code generation tricks and tips

26:50 - The future of MFractor

Links & Show Notes:

• The Xamarin Podcast website
• MFractor
• MFractor Documentation
• Building Add-ins for Xamarin Studio
• Matthew's Guide on Building Add-Ins for Xamarin Studio
• Xamarin University Lecture on Addins
• Roslyn Quoter
• Pierce: Twitter, GitHub
• Matthew Robbins: Twitter, GitHub

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Special Guest: Matthew Robbins.

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James Montemagno and Pierce Boggan announce some exciting changes surrounding the Xamarin Podcast and cover what's new in Xamarin, including the stable release of Cycle 9, the upcoming Visual Studio 2017 launch, and more.

Show Notes:

0:00:30 - Exciting changes coming to the Xamarin Podcast

0:04:45 - Visual Studio 2017 launch

0:06:30 - The new Visual Studio 2017 workload-based installer

0:11:00 - The Xamarin release process

0:18:30 - New "bootstrapped" cross-platform templates

0:22:20 - New item templates for Xamarin.Forms

0:25:00 - Xamarin.Forms IntelliSense, Info.plist Editor, and various other Visual Studio enhancements

0:27:15 - Updates to Xamarin Studio, including .NET Standard support, multiprocess debugging, and more

0:33:30 - Running Visual Studio for Mac and Xamarin Studio side-by-side

Links & Show Notes:

• The Xamarin Podcast website
• Cycle 9 Release Notes
• Visual Studio 2017 RC
• Visual Studio for Mac Preview
• Pierce: Twitter, GitHub
• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast

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This week on the Xamarin Podcast, we are joined by Xamarin MVP David Ortinau to talk about mobile app design, including the strategies and tools David uses to design and ship mobile apps to his clients.

Follow us on Twitter:
@pierceboggan
@MikeCodesDotNet
@davidortinau

Special Guests: David Ortinau and Mike James.

This week on the Xamarin Podcast, Mike James and I cover the latest-and-greatest in Xamarin.Forms to help make it easy to add native controls and functionality to your mobile apps with native view declaration and platform-specifics

Special Guest: Mike James.

In this edition of the Xamarin Podcast, Mike James and I discuss announcements from the Apple Special Event on September 7th, 2016, including iOS 10, iPhone 7, Apple Watch Series 2, and more! Be sure to listen for a full rundown on all the announcements from last week, as well as how you can take advantage of all the new iOS 10 APIs in your Xamarin apps.

Special Guest: Mike James.

In this edition of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce (@pierceboggan) and Mike (@mikecodesdotnet) discuss identity in mobile apps. We start by asking: does my mobile app even need identity? If it does, we cover the different options available to developers, from local to social to enterprise authentication.

Special Guest: Mike James.

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce Boggan and Mike James talk about the tools and processes they use to create and design beautiful apps.

Have show feedback? Let us know on Twitter @pierceboggan and @mikecodesdotnet.

Special Guest: Mike James.

This week on the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce and I share our experiences in building connected apps with Azure Mobile Apps. We’ll walk you through the different options you have for mobile backends in Azure, and take a look at other technologies, such as Microsoft Cognitive Services, Azure Functions, and Azure Search, that you can add to bring your mobile backend to the next level.

Special Guest: Mike James.

This week on the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce and I cover everything you need to know as a mobile developer from Apple’s WWDC 2016, including new additions and upgrades to iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS.

Special Guest: Mike James.

In this edition of the Xamarin Podcast, Mike James (@MikeCodesDotNet) and Pierce (@pierceboggan) break down the latest major stable release of Xamarin - Cycle 7 - which includes the brand-new Xamarin Studio 6, Visual Studio 4.1, and updates to Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Mono.

Special Guest: Mike James.

This week on the Xamarin Podcast, James Montemagno has the honor of taking with special guest Joseph Hill, co-founder of Xamarin and VP of Developer Relations. James sat down with Joseph to discuss not only the past, present, and future of Xamarin Evolve, but a full run down on his thoughts of the Microsoft acquisition.

Special Guest: Joseph Hill.

This week on the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce and James catch you up on all the new features introduced in Xamarin.Forms 2.1, including control templates, DataTemplateSelectors, and making user interface tweaks with effects, as well as take a look back on the journey from Xamarin.Forms 1.0 to now.

This week on the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce and I share our experiences with both continuous integration and continuous deployment, and provide some of our favorite services (i.e. HockeyApp, VSTS, Bitrise, and Appveyor) and actionable steps to get your own continuous infrastructure up-and-running in no time.

This week on the Xamarin Podcast, Mike and I are joined by James Montemagno to overview all of the features introduced in C# 6 to simplify your code and bring code readability to a new level.

Special Guest: Mike James.

Mobile users have extremely high expectations when it comes to mobile applications in 2015, which is why it's more important than ever to make sure your app runs flawlessly. This week on the Xamarin Podcast, Mike and Pierce describe everything you need to know about testing to test your way to a five star app, including: the importance of testing mobile apps, common challenges, testing workflows, and actionable steps you can take to start testing your apps today.

Special Guest: Mike James.

This week on the Xamarin Podcast, Mike sits down with Dominique Louis and Dean Ellis, to talk MonoGame - an open source implementation of the XNA 4 framework with the goal to allow XNA developers to port their games to iOS, Android, Mac OSX, Linux, Apple TV, and PlayStation 4. We discuss how to get started with game development, break down all of the game engines available to C# developers who wish to bring their games to billions of mobile gamers, and more.

Special Guests: Dean Ellis, Dominique Louis, and Mike James.

Xamarin 4 has everything you need to build great mobile apps. This week on the Xamarin Podcast, we explore all the new features and enhancements Xamarin 4 brings to help make it fast, easy, and fun to develop great mobile apps.

Introducing Xamarin 4: https://blog.xamarin.com/introducing-xamarin-4/
Win registration to Xamarin Evolve 2016: https://blog.xamarin.com/contest-show-us-your-favorite-xamarin-4-feature/
Xamarin.Forms: https://xamarin.com/forms
Xamarin.Forms for UWP Preview: https://blog.xamarin.com/getting-started-with-xamarin-forms-windows-10-preview/

Special Guest: Mike James.

Join Mike (@MikeCodesDotNet) and Pierce (@pierceboggan) as they recap the announcements from Apple's Special Event on September 9th, 2015.

Special Guest: Mike James.

Xamarin Insights with James and Mike by Xamarin Podcast

Special Guest: Mike James.

Deciding which patterns to use when developing your app can be difficult. This week on the Xamarin Podcast, James Montemagno and I discuss MVVM frameworks and our approach to developing cross platform apps with as much code reuse as possible.

Special Guest: Mike James.

Building apps for a connected world is tough! Mobile devices, even in areas of high connectivity, are constantly gaining and losing internet connections. Sometimes, even in perfect scenarios things can go wrong. We also want our apps to be super-performant and work offline. In today's episode of the Xamarin Podcast, we break down our strategies for building fast, connected apps with Xamarin.

Huge shoutout to Rob Gibbens, who inspired this podcast with his excellent post on resilient network services: http://arteksoftware.com/resilient-network-services-with-xamarin/

Special Guest: Mike James.

Join Pierce Boggan (twitter.com/pierceboggan) and Mike James (twitter.com/mikecodesdotNET) as they discuss all of the amazing mobile backend options available to Xamarin developers, such as Oracle MCS, Microsoft Azure, and Facebook's Parse.

Special Guest: Mike James.

Join Pierce Boggan (@pierceboggan) and Mike James (@mikecodesdotNET) as they discuss all of the latest announcements from WWDC 2015 and how they affect developers.

Special Guest: Mike James.

Join James Montemagno, Jérémie Laval, and Pierce Boggan as they discuss all of the latest announcements from Google I/O, how they affect developers, and their thoughts on attending Google I/O at the Moscone Center.

Special Guest: Jérémie Laval.

Mike and Pierce discuss the upcoming Xamarin WWDC and Google I/O parties, as well as look at some content from our community in "This Week in Xamarin". Xamarin Developer Evangelist James Montemagno also joins the podcast to talk about how you can increase code sharing in your apps with Plugins for Xamarin.

Special Guest: Mike James.

Whoa, it's been a while! Welcome back! This episode of the Xamarin Podcast discusses the latest announcements over the past few months in the Xamarin and .NET world, including 1 Million Developers, Xamarin.Forms for Windows and Windows Phone 8.1, the Xamarin Inspector, and all the cool announcement's from Microsoft's Build 2015 conference.

Episode Eleven talks about the upcoming Xamarin Evolve conference, Build 2014, videos for recent user groups, new user groups and talk on Android Wear, Google Glass and how you can get yourself a free Xamarin C# t-shirt.

Xamarin Evolve 2014 - https://evolve.xamarin.com/
Epic Evolve Sessions - http://blog.xamarin.com/epic-evolve-sessions/
Microsoft Build 2014 - http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2014/04/02/everything-need-know-build-2014/
Go Mobile with C# and Xamarin with Miguel de Icaza - http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/3-653
.NET Foundation - http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/
Universal Projects - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2014/04/14/using-visual-studio-to-build-universal-xaml-apps.aspx
Mobile Services + Xamarin + PCL - https://github.com/paulbatum/mobile-services-xamarin-pcl
Using Xamarin to take Existing .NET Apps Cross Platform - http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Using-Xamarin-to-take-Existing-NET-Apps-Cross-Platform
Xamarin and REST APIs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfoJCd_TMx0
1) Write cross-platform mobile apps with F# & Xamarin. 2) ??? 3) Profit! - http://www.meetup.com/nycmobiledev/events/176767982/
Cross Platform Settings for Everyone! - http://motzcod.es/post/79388621342/cross-platform-settings-for-everyone
Xamarin iOS Signature Starter Kit - http://www.michaelridland.com/xamarin/how-to-xamarin-ios-signature-starter-kit/
Admob with Xamarin Android - https://blog.tommyparnell.com/admob-with-xamarin-part-1-banner-ads/
Observable UITableViews - http://www.pierceboggan.com/observable-uitableviews/
Taskio | Task & Todo list, reminders & calendar - https://itunes.apple.com/app/tasky%20-task-todo-list-reminders/id704586943?mt=8
Mobile Midwest By Bernstein-Rein Advertising - https://itunes.apple.com/app/mobile-midwest/id859441250?mt=8
Android Wear - http://developer.android.com/wear/index.html
Android Wear Component - https://components.xamarin.com/view/androidwearpreview
Glass Development Kit (Developer Preview) Component - https://components.xamarin.com/view/googleglass
Making a Google Glass app with C# on Xamarin: PTVGlass - http://www.istartedsomething.com/20140329/making-a-google-glass-app-with-c-on-xamarin-ptvglass/
Glass Progress Bar - https://github.com/chrisntr/glass-progress-bar
Xamarin Starter Edition - http://xamarin.com/starter
Part 1: My StepCounter Android: Step Sensors - http://motzcod.es/post/82515321689/part-1-my-stepcounter-android-step-sensors
Run a C# app, get a C# shirt - http://xamarin.com/shirt
Xamarin Podcast on Twitter - http://twitter.com/xamarinpodcast

Special Guest: Chris Hardy.

Episode 10 of the Xamarin Podcast discusses some of the latest news from Apple, upgrading Google Glass, Nokia X shipping with Xamarin.Android applications, Portable Class Library videos and more. As always, you can see the links we mention on show below, or see the links inline on the SoundCloud file.

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Apple CarPlay - http://www.apple.com/ios/carplay/
TestFlight Owner Burstly Acquired By Apple - http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/21/rumor-testflight-owner-burstly-is-being-acquired-by-apple/
Google Glass updates slow down ahead of KitKat upgrade - http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57619794-94/google-glass-updates-slow-down-ahead-of-kitkat-upgrade/
Get Scanning With Google Glass - http://chrisntr.github.io/blog/2014/02/24/get-scanning-with-google-glass/
The easiest way to build Native iOS UI - http://blog.falafel.com/Blogs/lance-bullock/2014/02/18/the-easiest-way-to-build-native-ios-ui
Using Portable Class Libraries with Xamarin - http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Using-Portable-Class-Libraries-with-Xamarin
Using Portable Class Libraries in iOS and Android Apps - http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2014/02/01/using-portable-class-libraries-in-ios-and-android-apps.aspx
Portable Class Library Tips and Tricks - http://motzcod.es/post/77714523453/portable-class-library-tips-and-tricks
Nokia X Platform overview - http://developer.nokia.com/nokia-x/platform-overview
Nokia X – HERE for C# developers with Xamarin - http://blog.xamarin.com/nokia-x-for-csharp/
Bringing MixRadio to the new Nokia X family - http://dev.mixrad.io/blog/2014/02/24/Bringing-MixRadio-to-the-new-Nokia-X-family/
Use Nokia X HERE Maps with Xamarin.Android - http://mikebluestein.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/use-nokia-x-here-maps-with-xamarin-android/
Awesome Mobile C# Meetups to Start off March - http://blog.xamarin.com/awesome-mobile-c-sharp-meetups-to-start-off-march/
Introduction to iOS Programming in C# (Seattle Mobile .NET March 2014) - http://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/14339/introduction-to-ios-programming-in-c-seattle-mobile-net-march-2014
Autohide Navigation Bar - http://iosbits.co.uk/autohide-navigation-bar/
Days Until Xmas on Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chrisntr.daysuntilxmasandroid
Days Until Xmas source code on GitHub - https://github.com/chrisntr/DaysUntilXmas
Baby Steps with Xamarin on Android - http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2014/02/20/baby-steps-with-xamarin-on-android-part-1.aspx
In-Memory Bitmap Caching with Xamarin.Android: Part 1, An Overview - http://brett.duncavage.org/2014/02/in-memory-bitmap-caching-with.html

Special Guest: Chris Hardy.

Episode nine of the Xamarin Podcast discusses some new announcements from Google, open source applications that you can learn from, MVVM frameworks to speed up your development and much much more.

ChrisNTR on Twitter - http://twitter.com/chrisntr
Pierce Boggan on Twitter - http://twitter.com/pierceboggan
Google I/O 2014 - https://plus.google.com/+SundarPichai/posts/hVVvM5MJU3d
Project Tango - http://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/
Wii Remote Hacks - http://www.ted.com/talks/johnny_lee_demos_wii_remote_hacks.html
Enhancing Cross-Platform Mobile Development in Xamarin Using MvvMCross and Ninja Coder - http://www.devx.com/blog/dev_issues/enhancing-cross-platform-mobile-development-in-xamarin-using-mvvmcross-and-ninja-coder.html
VS Toolbox - Cross Platform Development With Xamarin - http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/visual-studio-toolbox/cross-platform-development-with-xamarin
Using Estimotes With Xamarin.Android - http://www.opgenorth.net/blog/2014/02/16/using-estimotes-with-xamarin-dot-android/
eyeBeacon - http://pennapps2014s.challengepost.com/submissions/20897-eyebeacon
Localytics for Xamarin.Mac - https://github.com/robertmiles3/localytics-xamarin-mac
Creating Xamarin.iOS bindings for a native library - http://kannan-chandra.com/posts/xamarin-binding-appsee/
NChart3D - http://nchart3d.com/nchart/download
Cross-platform Progress / HUD for Android and iOS with Xamarin - http://gerryhigh.com/2014/02/09/cross-platform-xamarin/
Xamarin University - http://xamarin.com/university
Continuous Integration for Your Mobile App - http://blog.xamarin.com/continuous-integration-for-your-mobile-app/
Falafel Bridge for TestComplete - http://blog.falafel.com/blogs/ryan-axford/2014/02/17/now-in-the-xamarin-marketplace-falafel-bridge-for-testcomplete
Symbolicating iOS Crash Files (Xamarin.iOS) - http://jmillerdev.net/symbolicating-ios-crash-files-xamarin-ios/
My StepCounter on GitHub - https://github.com/michaeljames6/my-stepcounter
My StepCounter on AppStore - https://itunes.apple.com/app/my-stepcounter/id789817499?mt=8
Dublin RTPI - https://github.com/wolksoftwareltd/dublinrtpi
Json.NET - http://components.xamarin.com/view/json.net
json2csharp.com - http://json2csharp.com/
New Series: developing for Android with Xamarin - http://msicc.net/?p=3858
Xamarin/MvvmCross + Autofac - http://nbevans.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/xamarin-mvvmcross-with-autofac/
Simple MVVM Toolkit for WPF, SL, Windows Store, Windows Phone, iOS and Android - https://simplemvvmtoolkit.codeplex.com/releases/view/118065
Making Xamarin.iOS talk to Meteor - http://fastchicken.co.nz/2014/02/11/making-xamarin-ios-talk-to-meteor/
Review of my first real F# program written in Xamarin - http://www.knowing.net/index.php/2014/02/13/notes-on-my-first-real-f-program/
Danger Unstable Structure - No More! - http://7sharpnine.com/posts/danger-unstable-structure/

Special Guest: Chris Hardy.

Episode eight of the Xamarin Podcast kicks off discussing the new Microsoft CEO, diving into cross platform apps such as Total Connect Comfort Europe from Honeywell, Wordament from Microsoft and announcing Xamarin Evolve 2014, sign up and be notified when registration opens up!

Satya Nadella - Microsoft's CEO - http://microsoft.com/ceo
Animation fun with UIView.AnimateAsync() - http://kerry.lothrop.de/animation-fun/
Xamarin How-To: Controls for Navigating Between Screens in iOS - http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2014/01/01/xamarin-how-to.aspx
Watch LINQ to Twitter On Glass - http://geekswithblogs.net/winaz/archive/2014/01/10/watch-linq-to-twitter-on-glass.aspx
GlassPrompter, the Google Glass Teleprompter - http://rogerpincombe.com/glassprompter
Google Glass Template for Visual Studio - http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/0299716a-24ba-41f0-8b97-2f4992bb91a8
Automated UI Testing with Cucumber and Calabash - http://praeclarum.org/post/73655359097/automated-ui-testing-with-cucumber-and-calabash
Core Animation Resources for Xamarin.iOS Developers - http://mikebluestein.wordpress.com/2014/02/02/core-animation-resources-for-xamarin-ios-developers/
Using Atlassian Bamboo to build Xamarin apps - http://lipsky.me/blog/2014/1/29/r1x6nswctliiwqngg0zu63u2713cnp
Xamarin Evolve 2014 - http://xamarin.com/evolve/2014
Total Connect Comfort Europe on Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.honeywell.totalconnectcomforteurope&hl=en
Total Connect Comfort Europe on iOS - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/total-connect-comfort-europe/id783653368?mt=8
Xamarin’s Visual Studio Plugin, missing Android devices, Genymotion and Parallels Desktop – don’t panic! - http://krumelur.me/2014/01/30/xamarins-visual-studio-plugin-missing-android-devices-genymotion-and-parallels-desktop-dont-panic/
Wave Engine 1.3 Sea Lion - http://waveengine.net/news/details/13
Wordament Ships to Every Major Platform with Xamarin - http://blog.xamarin.com/wordament-ships-to-every-major-platform-with-xamarin/
February Mobile C# Developer Meetups - http://blog.xamarin.com/february-2014-mobile-c-sharp-developer-meetups/
Will the Next Great Boston Tech Company Please Stand Up? - http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2014/01/30/will-the-next-great-boston-tech-company-please-stand-up/?single_page=true
Google opens Chromecast to all developers - http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57617969-93/google-opens-chromecast-to-all-developers/

Special Guest: Chris Hardy.

Episode seven of the Xamarin Podcast kicks off the new year with Google Glass, Meetup Managers, Parallax and Shaking Windows. Hear about Frank Krueger's new Bind framework, automating your home with WeMo from Belkin and speeding up your HTTP calls with a Xamarin component from Paul Betts.

BUILD 2014 - http://buildwindows.com
MvvmCross - https://github.com/mvvmcross/mvvmcross
MeetupManager on GitHub - https://github.com/jamesmontemagno/meetupmanager
Seattle Mobile .NET Developers Group - http://www.meetup.com/seattlemobiledevelopers
Belkin WeMo Insight Switch - http://www.belkin.com/us/p/p-f7c029/
Belkin WeMo SDK - http://developers.belkin.com/wemo/sdk
Google Glass Add-in for Xamarin Studio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyjb4qox9fm
Google Glass Add-in on GitHub - https://github.com/chrisntr/glassaddin
Glass Developers GDK Reference Documentation - https://developers.google.com/glass/develop/gdk/reference/index
Find A Cat Google Glass on GitHub - https://github.com/patridge/okglassfindacat
MarkdownSharp.Portable on GitHub - https://github.com/patridge/markdownsharp.portable
Android Screen Mirroring Made Easy - http://motzcod.es/post/71998937230/android-screen-mirroring-made-easy
Mobizen - http://www.mobizen.com/en/
FlatUI for Android on Xamarin Component Store - https://components.xamarin.com/view/flatui
Using Parallax for Fun and Profit - http://blog.neteril.org/blog/2014/01/02/using-parallax-for-fun-and-profit/
Building Native User Interfaces is the Right Way To Build Cross Platform Style Apps - http://morewally.com/cs/blogs/wallym/archive/2013/12/15/building-native-user-interfaces-is-the-right-way-to-build-cross-platform-style-apps.aspx
Magic of NSLinguistic Tagger - http://prashantvc.com/magic-of-nslinguistic%e2%80%8btagger/
Gist for NSLinguisticTagger - https://gist.github.com/prashantvc/8039121
Xamarin.Mac Tutorial 6 - Shaking Windows - http://micjames.co.uk/xamarin-mac-tutorial-6-shaking-windows/
Porting existing .NET apps to Four Mobile Platforms with PCL - http://blog.xamarin.com/porting-existing-.net-apps-to-four-mobile-platforms-with-pcl/
Bind on GitHub - https://github.com/praeclarum/bind
ModernHttpClient on Xamarin Component Store - http://components.xamarin.com/view/modernhttpclient
Why we launched on both iOS and Android, and you should too - http://blog.cloudmagic.com/2014/01/07/why-we-launched-on-both-ios-and-android-and-you-should-too/

Special Guest: Chris Hardy.

Episode six of the Xamarin Podcast comes back after a little holiday, found out why on the show, hear about Google Glass and developing for Google Glass with Xamarin.Android, find out what's been happening at the .NET Rocks Modern Apps Roadshow and more Xamarin and mobile news from around the web.

Modern Apps Roadshow - http://xamarin.com/modern-apps-roadshow
Chris Hardy on The Tablet Show - www.thetabletshow.com/default.aspx?shownum=111
Aaron Bockover on The Tablet Show - www.thetabletshow.com/default.aspx?shownum=112
Microsoft and Xamarin Partner Globally - http://blog.xamarin.com/microsoft-and-xamarin-partner-globally/
PCL and .NET NuGet Libraries are now enabled for Xamarin - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2013/11/13/pcl-and-net-nuget-libraries-are-now-enabled-for-xamarin.aspx
Announcing Xamarin University - http://blog.xamarin.com/announcing-xamarin-university/
Windows Azure: General Availability Release of BizTalk Services, Traffic Manager, Azure AD App Access + Xamarin support for Mobile Services - http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2013/11/21/windows-azure-general-availability-release-of-biztalk-services-traffic-manager-azure-ad-app-access-xamarin-support-for-mobile-services.aspx
ActionBarSherlock + Xamarin + MVVMCross - http://enginecore.blogspot.ro/2013/11/actionbarsherlock-xamarin-mvvmcross.html
Android Support Library v7 AppCompat - http://components.xamarin.com/view/xamandroidsupportv7appcompat
Building Glassware with the Xamarin Android and Google’s GDK - http://lewisbenge.azurewebsites.net/2013/11/21/building-glassware-with-the-xamarin-android-and-googles-gdk/
Glass Development Kit - https://developers.google.com/glass/develop/gdk/index
Google Mirror API Overview - https://developers.google.com/glass/develop/mirror/index
Google Plus Services, Login and +1 in Xamarin.Android - http://motzcod.es/post/67077106339/google-plus-services-login-and-1-in-xamarin-android
RadioTimes DiscoverTV - http://www.radiotimes.com/apps/radio-times-discover-tv-for-ipad
MimeKit - http://jstedfast.github.io/mimekit/
Being A Successful Mobile Developer - Windows Phone, Marketing & Xamarin - http://blog.tattoocoder.com/2013/11/being-successful-mobile-developer.html
Gone Mobile Podcast - http://gonemobile.io/

Special Guest: Chris Hardy.

Episode five of the Xamarin Podcast discusses all things Xamarin and mobile development related, covering Moyeu - a open source Android app for tracking Hubspot bikes in Boston, developing games for iOS in F#, open source and the Xamarin community and much much more.

Xamarin Studio and iOS 7 - http://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-studio-and-ios-7/
A Platform game in SpriteKit and F# - http://neildanson.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/a-platform-game-in-spritekit-and-f-part-1-game-state-management/
A Big refresh to Moyeu - http://blog.neteril.org/blog/2013/10/10/a-big-refresh-to-moyeu/
XamSvg, Managed SVG Support for Android - http://blog.neteril.org/blog/2013/10/10/xamsvg-managed-svg-for-xamarin-android/
Android Tip: ViewPager With Protruding Children - http://blog.neteril.org/blog/2013/10/14/android-tip-viewpager-with-protruding-children/
Elegant UITextField Placeholders in Xamarin.iOS - http://www.gregshackles.com/2013/10/elegant-uitextfield-placeholders-in-xamarin-ios/
Using PaintCode with Xamarin.Mac - http://micjames.co.uk/paintcode-xamarin-mac/
Asynchronous Operations with Xamarin - http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2013/10/01/asynchronous-operations-with-xamarin.aspx
Xamarin.Mac Tutorial 1 - http://micjames.co.uk/xamarin-mac-tutorial-1/
Touch.Unit vs NUnitLite 1.0 - http://spouliot.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/touch-unit-vs-nunitlite-1-0/
Portable Class Library (PCL) now available on all platforms - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2013/10/14/portable-class-library-pcl-now-available-on-all-platforms.aspx
PSPDF Kit on Twitter - https://twitter.com/pspdfkit/status/389711687194279936
Open-Source: GitHub's Xamarin starter apps - http://log.paulbetts.org/open-source-githubs-xamarin-starter-apps/
Using the iOS7 BarCode Scanner - Book App - http://www.infragistics.com/community/blogs/baldnbearded/archive/2013/10/11/using-the-ios7-barcode-scanner-monotouch.aspx
Adobe Edge Animations - Clancey on GitHub - https://github.com/clancey/adobeedgeanimations/tree/master/adobeedgeanimations
Days Until Xmas Goes Open Source - http://chrisntr.github.io/blog/2013/10/01/days-until-xmas-goes-open-source/
Joggle - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/joggle/id697132586?mt=8
DVLUP 2.0 - http://www.dvlup.com/

Special Guest: Chris Hardy.

Episode four of the Xamarin Podcast discusses all things Xamarin and mobile development related, covering a lot of great articles focusing on iOS 7 development with Xamarin.iOS, Porting Silverlight apps to iOS and Android and various other links from around the web.

iOS 7 Adoption - Mixpanel - https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/ios_7/from_date:-2,to_date:0
Xamarin Recipe Cook-off - http://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-recipe-cook-off/
Xamarin iOS 7 MapKit MKDirections - http://davidsonblake.wordpress.com/2013/09/25/ios-7-mapkit-mkdirections/
iOS 7 - Xamarin Recipe for JavascriptCore Framework - http://jmillerdev.net/blog/2013/09/25/ios-7-xamarin-recipe-for-javascriptcore-framework/
iOS7 Recipe: Background Fetching - http://redth.info/ios7-recipe-background-fetching/
Introduction to Backgrounding in iOS - http://docs.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/application_fundamentals/backgrounding/part_1_introduction_to_backgrounding_in_ios
Making Fetch Happen - NYC Mobile .NET Developers Group - http://www.meetup.com/nycmobiledev/events/141348942/
iOS7: Fun Times With the New Full Screen Layout! - http://redth.info/ios7-full-screen-layout/
iOS 7 UI Transition Guide - https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/transitionguide/
Play 'Find The Monkey' with iOS 7 iBeacons - http://blog.xamarin.com/play-find-the-monkey-with-ios-7-ibeacons/
Make Your iOS 7 App Speak - http://blog.xamarin.com/make-your-ios-7-app-speak/
SpriteKit on Xamarin.iOS: fun without compromise - http://blog.reblochon.org/2013/09/spritekit-on-xamarinios-fun-without.html
Yep, paid apps are dead - http://tapity.com/yep-paid-apps-are-dead/
iOS Support Matrix - http://iossupportmatrix.com/
Modal UIAlertView (iOS 7) - http://prashantvc.com/modal-uialertview-ios-7/
Image Effects with Xamarin.Android - http://prashantvc.com/image-effects-with-xamarin-android/
Porting existing .NET apps to Android - http://blog.xamarin.com/porting-existing-.net-apps-to-android/
Porting existing .NET apps to iOS - http://blog.xamarin.com/porting-existing-.net-apps-to-ios/
Auth0Client Component - http://components.xamarin.com/view/auth0client/
Wave Engine Converter Tool (Android and iOS) - http://blog.waveengine.net/2013/09/26/wave-engine-converter-tool-android-and-ios/
Lead Mobile Application Developer - http://careers.stackoverflow.com/uk/jobs/41224/lead-mobile-application-developer-ios-android-justgiving
Memsquare - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/memsquare!/id702438915?mt=8
Using RevealApp with MonoTouch - http://tirania.org/monomac/archive/2013/sep-29.html
Simple App Artwork with Sketch - http://blog.xamarin.com/simple-app-artwork-with-sketch/

Special Guest: Chris Hardy.

Episode three of the Xamarin Podcast discusses all things Xamarin and mobile development related, talking about the recent iOS 7 and iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s releases, astronauts using Xamarin and helpful components and open source projects.

iOS Dev Center - https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action
CoreMotion APIs - https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/coremotion/reference/coremotion_reference/_index.html
Genymotion - http://genymotion.com
Learning Xamarin #2: Using the Genymotion Emulator - http://blog.falafel.com/blogs/jesseliberty/jesse-liberty/2013/09/13/learning-xamarin-2-using-the-genymotion-emulator
Getting Started with Xamarin Android - http://blog.falafel.com/blogs/jesseliberty/jesse-liberty/2013/09/11/getting-started-with-xamarin-android
Gone Mobile Podcast - http://gonemobile.io/
Creating a UI in Xamarin.iOS - http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2013/09/01/creating-a-ui-in-xamarin-ios.aspx
Creating Imperative UIs in C# - http://blog.xamarin.com/creating-imperative-uis-in-c/
Fast UI Creation With MonoTouch.Dialog - http://fastchicken.co.nz/2013/06/06/my-xamarin-evolve-talk-is-up-fast-ui-creation-with-monotouch-dot-dialog/
Tink - https://www.tink.se/en/
Introduction to iOS 7 - http://docs.xamarin.com/guides/ios/platform_features/introduction_to_ios_7
Days Until Xmas App - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/days-until-xmas/id578104612?ls=1&mt=8
NucliOS Controls for iOS 7 Developers - http://www.infragistics.com/community/blogs/nick-landry/archive/2013/09/18/nuclios-controls-for-ios-7-developers.aspx
Renaud on Twitter - https://twitter.com/renaudbedard/status/377874948251217920
Cubes All The Way Down - http://theinstructionlimit.com/cubes-all-the-way-down-igs-gdc
Buzz Aldrin on Twitter - https://twitter.com/therealbuzz/status/377106747854303232
Talking to your car – with OpenXC, Android, Xamarin & F# - http://fwaris.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/talking-to-you-car-with-openxc-android-xamarin-f/
Flavorus Box Office - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flavorus-box-office/id706171427
Animaonline.Android.Console - http://animaonline.com/blog/post/2
Couchbase Lite - http://components.xamarin.com/view/couchbase-lite/
Eggs-To-Go Component - http://components.xamarin.com/view/eggstogo/
Xamarin Community Blogs - http://planet.xamarin.com/
Planet Xamarin on Twitter - https://twitter.com/planetxamarin

Special Guest: Chris Hardy.

This episode of the Xamarin Podcast discusses all things Xamarin and mobile development related, including news, events and interesting projects and apps in the mobile and Xamarin developer space.

Apple iPhone event on September 10th is official - http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/3/4689266/apple-iphone-event-september-10th-official
Android KitKat unveiled in Google surprise move - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23926938
Unit Test Your iOS Apps - http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2013/08/01/unit-test-your-ios-apps.aspx
Xamarin and Android – Specific Solutions to Specific Problems #1 - http://welltechnically.com/?p=2671
TinyIoC - https://github.com/grumpydev/TinyIoC
Similardio - https://github.com/garuma/Similardio
AutoMapper for Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android preview - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dxgk8vkiyafwrxo/acgt6wNixK
Cross-Platform Portable Class Libraries with .NET are Happening - http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CrossPlatformPortableClassLibrariesWithNETAreHappening.aspx
Roaring for the Lions: Creating a reusable, extensible app development platform using Windows Azure - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukmsdn/archive/2013/06/25/behind-the-scenes-with-the-british-and-irish-lions-apps-windows-azure-server-architecture.aspx
ReactiveUI - https://github.com/reactiveui/ReactiveUI
MVVMCross for cross-platform mobile development. - http://www.sequence.co.uk/blog/mvvmrules
Aviva Drive - http://www.aviva.co.uk/drive/
Taptitude - http://taptitude.fourbrosstudio.com/Home/CrossPlatformTaptitude
Draw A Stickman - http://www.drawastickman.com
How mobile is your .NET? - http://scan.xamarin.com
Farlight - http://danielvaughan.org/post/Farlight-Brings-a-Captivating-Drawing-Experience-to-Your-Device.aspx
Xamarin iOS Designer and Storyboards - Part 1 - http://blog.falafel.com/Blogs/lance-bullock/2013/08/09/xamarin-ios-designer-and-storyboards---part-1
DVLUP opens its doors to members from five more countries - http://blog.dvlup.com/2013/08/28/dvlup-opens-its-doors-to-members-from-five-more-countries/
Updated #OUYA ODK C# bindings with @xamarinhq's new async/await support - https://twitter.com/KonajuGames/status/372752206555926528
Quick Start with Xamarin.iOS - http://ybigus.com/blog/quick-start-with-xamarin-ios

Special Guest: Chris Hardy.

This episode of the Xamarin Podcast, as well as all future Xamarin Podcasts, discusses all things Xamarin and mobile development related, including news, events and interesting projects and apps in the mobile and Xamarin developer space.

Links from this episode:

ChrisNTR on Twitter - twitter.com/chrisntr
Pierce on Twitter - twitter.com/pierceboggan
XamarinHQ on Twitter - twitter.com/xamarinhq
Apple Developer Portal Hacked - http://mashable.com/2013/07/22/apples-developer-portal-hacked/
200 Devices on Apple Dev Centre - appleinsider.com/articles/13/08/16/apple-now-allowing-up-to-200-test-devices-per-ios-developer-account
Android 4.3 Official Jelly Bean Release - www.engadget.com/2013/07/24/android-4-3-jelly-bean-official/
Xamarin.Android Google Play Services Component - blog.xamarin.com/introducing-the-google-play-services-component-for-xamarin-android/
ChromeCast - www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromecast/
ChromeCast for Xamarin.iOS - www.knowing.net/index.php/2013/08/10/chromecast-home-media-server-xamarin-ios-ftw/
LineDiet App - smartypantscoding.com/the-official-launch-of-line-diet-for-iphone
Azure Service Bus Notification Hub for Xamarin.iOS - roycornelissen.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/azure-service-bus-notification-hub-for-ios-bonus-xamarin-binding/
Parse Developer Day - www.parsedeveloperday.com/
Movement to Xamarin and mobile development - www.monday8am.com/en/2013/08/04/xamarin_comienzos/
Movement to Xamarin and mobile development (spanish) - www.monday8am.com/2013/08/04/xamarin_comienzos/
Transitioning to Xamarin from Objective-C - blog.xamarin.com/transitioning-to-xamarin-from-objective-c/
Webinar - C# Async on iOS and Android - blog.xamarin.com/csharp-async-on-ios-and-android/
NYC Mobile .NET Developers Group - www.meetup.com/nycmobiledev/events/133405042/
MonkeyArms - github.com/benbishop/MonkeyArms
Splat - github.com/xpaulbettsx/splat
Wordout - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordout/id672236582?l=nb&mt=8

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