Summary: <p>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.</p> <p>6:00 - WWDC 2017 and iOS 11<br> 11:30 - Easy app provisioning with the Fastlane tools<br> 14:55 - How to boost your app startup time<br> 17:30 - New libraries for Azure identity + Microsoft Graph, including Azure AD and Azure AD B2C<br> 21:10 - Xamarin.Forms Embedding: What is it and why does it matter?<br> 25:10 - What's in Visual Studio 15.2.3 stable and 15.3 previews for Xamarin developers<br> 29:45 - Package/Tool/Library of the Week</p> <p>Show Links</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.xamarin.com/wwdc-2017-recap-for-ios-developers/" rel="nofollow">WWDC 2017 Recap for iOS Developers</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.mergeconflict.fm/special-edition-wwdc-2017-recap" rel="nofollow">Merge Conflict Special Edition: WWDC Recap</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.xamarin.com/easy-ios-app-provisioning-fastlane-visual-studio-mac/" rel="nofollow">Easy iOS App Provisioning with Fastlane and Visual Studio for Mac</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.xamarin.com/5-ways-boost-xamarin-forms-app-startup-time/" rel="nofollow">5 Ways to Boost Xamarin.Forms App Startup Time</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.xamarin.com/enterprise-apps-made-easy-updated-libraries-apis/" rel="nofollow">Enterprise Apps Made Easy with New Libraries for Authentication and the Microsoft Graph</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.xamarin.com/unleashed-embedding-xamarin-forms-in-xamarin-native/" rel="nofollow">Unleashed: Embedding Xamarin.Forms in Xamarin Native</a></li> <li><a href="http://motzcod.es/post/162052911902/why-xamarinforms-embedding-matters" rel="nofollow">Why Xamarin.Forms Embedding Matters</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.lottiefiles.com/" rel="nofollow">LottieFiles: Prebuilt high quality animations</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/dotnet/templating" rel="nofollow">.NET Templating Engine</a></li> </ul> <p>Follow Us:</p> <ul> <li>James: <a href="https://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://motzcod.es/" rel="nofollow">Blog</a>, <a href="http://github.com/jamesmontemagno" rel="nofollow">GitHub</a>, <a href="http://mergeconflict.fm" rel="nofollow">Merge Conflict Podcast</a> </li> <li>Pierce: <a href="https://twitter.com/pierceboggan" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://github.com/pierceboggan" rel="nofollow">GitHub</a> </li> </ul> <p>Subscribe:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/xamarin-podcast/id691368176?mt=2" rel="nofollow">iTunes</a></li> <li><a href="https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ifcss44ww5lc375esulsuettsey" rel="nofollow">Google Play Music</a></li> <li><a href="https://overcast.fm/itunes691368176/xamarin-podcast" rel="nofollow">Overcast</a></li> </ul>
