The Xamarin Podcast

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 Follow Us: James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast Pierce: Twitter, GitHub Subscribe: iTunes Google Play Music Overcast

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 Follow Us: James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast Pierce: Twitter, GitHub Subscribe: iTunes Google Play Music Overcast

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 Follow Us: James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast Pierce: Twitter, GitHub Subscribe: iTunes Google Play Music Overcast

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 Subscribe: iTunes Google Play Music Overcast 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 Subscribe: iTunes Google Play Music Overcast 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 Subscribe: iTunes Google Play Music Overcast

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 Subscribe: iTunes Google Play Music Overcast 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 Subscribe: iTunes Google Play Music Overcast 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 Subscribe: iTunes Google Play Music Overcast

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 @davidortinauSpecial 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-specificsSpecial 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.