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" cros...
Mar 10, 2017•39 min
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.
Jan 09, 2017•45 min
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.
Oct 31, 2016•21 min
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.
Sep 12, 2016•36 min
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.
Aug 22, 2016•32 min
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.
Jul 18, 2016•29 min
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.
Jun 27, 2016•54 min
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.
Jun 20, 2016•59 min
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.
Jun 13, 2016•31 min
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.
May 16, 2016•46 min
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.
Mar 17, 2016•30 min
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.
Mar 17, 2016•38 min
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.
Feb 05, 2016•39 min
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....
Jan 11, 2016•35 min
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...
Dec 18, 2015•39 min
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.x...
Dec 04, 2015•34 min
Join Mike (@MikeCodesDotNet) and Pierce (@pierceboggan) as they recap the announcements from Apple's Special Event on September 9th, 2015. Special Guest: Mike James.
Sep 25, 2015•33 min
Xamarin Insights with James and Mike by Xamarin Podcast Special Guest: Mike James.
Sep 11, 2015•36 min
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.
Aug 14, 2015•31 min
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 serv...
Jul 31, 2015•37 min
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.
Jul 10, 2015•29 min
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.
Jun 12, 2015•44 min
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.
Jun 12, 2015•32 min
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.
May 26, 2015•28 min
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.
May 11, 2015•34 min
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://c...
Apr 21, 2014•20 min
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. Recorded by ChrisNTR & Pierce Boggan, Edited by Mike James. You can use the following link to subscribe using your favourite podcast aggregator here: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/55118534-...
Mar 07, 2014•20 min
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_wi...
Feb 21, 2014•28 min
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://visualst...
Feb 05, 2014•16 min
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://w...
Jan 17, 2014•21 min
