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Google announces a slew of new products including the brand new Pixel 2, which means James has finally placed an order for a new phone. We break down the full Pixel event, but go deeper into our topic of the week of 2D and 3D cross-platform drawing libraries with SkiaSharp. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Sponsored By: MFractor: MFractor makes Xamarin app development in Visual Studio for Mac much easier; use the Xamarin.Forms code analysis and generation tools to make working with XAML a breeze and take the sting out of Android development with resource intellisense or mobile specific C# code analyzers. Use coupon code MERGE-CONFLICT for 10% off! Promo Code: MERGE-CONFLICTLinks: Google Pixel 2 event in under 15 minutes - YouTube Custom Vision praeclarum/NGraphics: NGraphics is a cross platform library for rendering vector graphics on .NET. It provides a unified API for both immediate and retained mode graphics using high quality native renderers. praeclarum/CrossGraphics: Cross-platform Graphics Library for .NET mono/SkiaSharp: The Skia 2D Graphics library from Google exposed to .NET languages and runtimes across the board An Introduction to SkiaSharp - Xamarin Skia Graphics Library aloisdeniel/Microcharts: Create cross-platform (Xamarin, Windows, ...) simple charts.

A quick follow up on Frank's Hot-dog or Not app he tried to create in a week. After that we take a look at what it takes to completely plan an actual application by yourself or with a full team. We discuss our management style, tools we like, and how we plan out releases. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Sponsored By: Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Forms. Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download our Xamarin e-books.  Links: praeclarum - "Hotdog or Not" Using Azure Custom Vision, CoreML,... Luce Carter on Twitter: "@mergeconflictfm I am attending a hackathon in a few weeks, it made me wonder, how do you approach projects in terms of planning, tasks etc." praeclarum/HotDogOrNot: A minimal Xamarin CoreML app to detect hotdogs Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity: David Allen: 9780142000281: Amazon.com: Books Trello Discord - Free Voice and Text Chat for Gamers

If we aren't talking about machine learning then we are talking about machine learning on Merge Conflict! This week we go through several services and resources to find out what exactly it takes to build hot dog or not! We review several free and paid services to create your own machine learning models and how to train them all online! Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Sponsored By: Telerik: Telerik UI for Xamarin is a collection of visually stunning controls for non-trivial UI scenarios. Truly native, truly cross-platform UI for all your Xamarin apps. Developers can easily integrate UI for Xamarin through NuGet or VS Templates, and get to ship Xamarin apps faster with delightful UX. Try it for free and enjoy all benefits with industry leading support for a whole month. Links: Building powerful image classification models using very little data Custom Vision Service introduces classifier export, starting with CoreML for iOS 11 | Blog | Microsoft Azure Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-ios-customvision-sample: Real time image classification on iOS using a CoreML model exported from Custom Vision Service Cognitive Services—Intelligence Applications | Microsoft Azure FloydHub Scale: API For Human Intelligence Machine Learning | Microsoft Azure Custom Vision

It is that time of the year when Apple unveils all of the brand new toys for consumers and developers. Sure everyone is talking about the new iPhone X, Apple Watch Series 3, and Apple TV 4K , but what about the launch of Xcode 9, iOS 11, and watchOS 4? We got you covered and discuss it all! Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Sponsored By: Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Forms. Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download our Xamarin e-books.  Links: Xcode - Apple Developer Buy Apple TV 4K - Apple Apple Watch Series 3 - Apple iPhone X - Apple Apple Events - Keynote September 2017 - Apple Troy Hunt: Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security Creating apps for iPhone X - Apple Developer What happened with Apple Face ID fail

We have survived the beta summers and Android 8.0 Oreo is finally out with a plethora of beautiful APIs. We discuss all the delicious bits of this lovely release for both developers and end users. From enhanced notifications, picture-in-picture, and tons of crazy API enhancements Android Oreo is packed full of features. Some changes are huge and can potentially break your app with behavior changes, and we break them all down on this weeks show. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Sponsored By: Telerik: Telerik UI for Xamarin is a collection of visually stunning controls for non-trivial UI scenarios. Truly native, truly cross-platform UI for all your Xamarin apps. Developers can easily integrate UI for Xamarin through NuGet or VS Templates, and get to ship Xamarin apps faster with delightful UX. Try it for free and enjoy all benefits with industry leading support for a whole month. Raygun: Everything developers of any application need for native and managed crash reporting to detect and diagnose software errors. Links: Android 8.0 Features and APIs | Android Developers Recent Support Library Revisions | Android Developers James Montemagno on Twitter: "Recommended by @gruber on this week's Talk Show. Thanks @bartelldrugs for carrying @NewmansOwn https://t.co/txrjJd0PTp" Notifications | Android Developers Autofill Framework | Android Developers Background Execution Limits | Android Developers Cookies - Newman's Own

We just can't get enough of augmented reality and the awesome new SDKs that are being created for developers to use. This week we discuss Google's attempt for Android and web developers with ARCore. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Sponsored By: Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Forms. Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download our Xamarin e-books.  Links: Google AR ARCore: Augmented reality at Android scale ARCore - Google Developer  |  ARCore  |  Google Developers XamarinComponents/Android/ARCore at master · xamarin/XamarinComponents Fundamental Concepts  |  ARCore  |  Google Developers

We are back with lightning talk week here on Merge Conflict. We cover 6 awesome topics in 30 minutes! This week we look at C# 8, Bottom Navigation on Android, Hacking Frank's Apartment with Serverless Compute, and so much more! Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Sponsored By: Telerik: Telerik UI for Xamarin is a collection of visually stunning controls for non-trivial UI scenarios. Truly native, truly cross-platform UI for all your Xamarin apps. Developers can easily integrate UI for Xamarin through NuGet or VS Templates, and get to ship Xamarin apps faster with delightful UX. Try it for free and enjoy all benefits with industry leading support for a whole month. Links: A Preview of C# 8 with Mads Torgersen | Seth Juarez | Channel 9 dotnet/csharplang: The official repo for the design of the C# programming language Exploring Android's Bottom Navigation View | Xamarin Blog Snack Pack 19: Serverless Compute in 5 Minutes | The Xamarin Show | Channel 9 Soylent (meal replacement) - Wikipedia Soylent Green (1973) - IMDb

This week we take an inside look at what it takes to actually maintain an open source project or in James' case 50 open source projects. How do you handle issues, PRs, CI, and how to stay sane when that blue GitHub notification bubble will never go away? Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Sponsored By: Raygun: Everything developers of any application need for native and managed crash reporting to detect and diagnose software errors. Links: praeclarum/sqlite-net: Simple, powerful, cross-platform SQLite client and ORM for .NET Up For Grabs Merge Conflict: Merge Conflict 43: DevOps for the Solo Developer First Timers Only - Get involved in Open Source and commit code to your first project!

It is that dreaded time in every iOS developers life when you get that rejection notice from app store because you broke one or eight of the App Store guidelines. This week we look at how to deal with these rejections and how to handle phone calls with Apple! Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Sponsored By: Telerik: Telerik UI for Xamarin is a collection of visually stunning controls for non-trivial UI scenarios. Truly native, truly cross-platform UI for all your Xamarin apps. Developers can easily integrate UI for Xamarin through NuGet or VS Templates, and get to ship Xamarin apps faster with delightful UX. Try it for free and enjoy all benefits with industry leading support for a whole month. Links: App Store Review Guidelines - Apple Developer Continuous C# and F# IDE for iPads and iPhones Support - Apple Developer Requesting Technical Support - Support - Apple Developer Bug Reporting - Apple Developer rdar://30396879: UIImagePickerController freeze when setting UISlider appearance proxy

Why bother with ARKit when you can learn all about the machines with CoreML! This week we explore all the goodies that Apple has for us in iOS 11's CoreML. We also attempt to demystify exactly what is machine learning and how to get started. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Sponsored By: Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Forms. Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download our Xamarin e-books.  Links: Machine Learning - Apple Developer TensorFlow AlexNet - Wikipedia Convolutional neural network - Wikipedia Recurrent neural network - Wikipedia Cognitive Services—Intelligence Applications | Microsoft Azure Seeing AI | Talking camera app for those with a visual impairment

Apple has blessed us with a beautiful API for augmented reality with ARKit and this week we investigate all of the awesome baked in, what you can and can't do with it, and look at all the awesome things people are already building. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Sponsored By: Raygun: Everything developers of any application need for native and managed crash reporting to detect and diagnose software errors. Telerik: Telerik UI for Xamarin is a collection of visually stunning controls for non-trivial UI scenarios. Truly native, truly cross-platform UI for all your Xamarin apps. Developers can easily integrate UI for Xamarin through NuGet or VS Templates, and get to ship Xamarin apps faster with delightful UX. Try it for free and enjoy all benefits with industry leading support for a whole month. Links: Made With ARKit Merge Conflict 2: Augmented Reality #PokemonGo Augmented Reality's A-ha Moment - YouTube Tango xamarin/urho: Code to integrate with the Urho3D engine Seeing AI | Talking camera app for those with a visual impairment

It is that age old debate... Mac vs PC! What is the most optimal operating system for development, what are the ups and downs of each, and what are our favorite tools to keep us productive regardless of where we are working? Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Sponsored By: Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Forms. Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download our Xamarin e-books.  Links:garuma/LibActivityTask: Easier async methods for Android

iOS 11 is packed full of awesome with machine learning, augmented reality, and a full file system, but who cares about that? Let's talk about our new favorite feature: Drag & Drop! This week we dive into why drag and drop matters, how it is implemented, and what you will get for free out of the box when you simply recompile your app! We also dive into several other iOS 11 goodies. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Sponsored By: Telerik: Telerik UI for Xamarin is a collection of visually stunning controls for non-trivial UI scenarios. Truly native, truly cross-platform UI for all your Xamarin apps. Developers can easily integrate UI for Xamarin through NuGet or VS Templates, and get to ship Xamarin apps faster with delightful UX. Try it for free and enjoy all benefits with industry leading support for a whole month. Links: Drag and Drop - iOS - Apple Developer iPad - Apple Adopting Drag and Drop in a Table View | Apple Developer Documentation iOS 11 Preview - Apple What Does It Mean When Apple “Sherlocks” an App?

It has been said that if a feature has not been documented, than it might as well not exist. It could not be more true from our findings and this week we finally take a look at all things documentation! We also get to your listener feedback and debate the future of progressive web apps, async/await, and a whole lot more. In addition to all of this AWESOME it has been officially been 1 full year of Merge Conflict! Thank you so much to our amazing listeners! <3 Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Sponsored By: Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Forms. Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download our Xamarin e-books.  Raygun: Everything developers of any application need for native and managed crash reporting to detect and diagnose software errors. Links: Documentation - Continuous C# and F# IDE for iPads and iPhones Wyam - A simple to use, highly modular, and extremely configurable static content generator SettingsPlugin/docs at master Getting Started with Async / Await | Xamarin Blog Twitter Lite - Progressive Web Apps - The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

Will Frank ever update his apps in the app store? When, how, and what should go into that super important app update that your users are expecting? We investigate what has changed for us and the app stores in the last year. How about open source projects and libraries? Do these fall into the same criteria of an "app release"? We also take a look at how Apple, Google, and awesome CI services have helped us be more successful. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Sponsored By: MFractor: MFractor makes Xamarin app development in Visual Studio for Mac much easier; use the Xamarin.Forms code analysis and generation tools to make working with XAML a breeze and take the sting out of Android development with resource intellisense or mobile specific C# code analyzers. Use coupon code MERGE-CONFLICT for 10% off! Promo Code: MERGE-CONFLICTLinks: UserVoice Apple might give iOS 11 a real file system