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 Az...
Oct 11, 2019•39 min
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! As always, get yourself some free Azure here ! 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 wi...
Sep 13, 2019•39 min
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 buil...
Aug 09, 2019•36 min
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 Intell...
Jul 12, 2019•35 min
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. As always, get yourself some free Azure here ! Show Notes Office hours are back! Xamarin.Forms 4.0 Intro Blog The Xamarin.Forms 4 live stream recording Intro to...
Jun 07, 2019•43 min
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 Servic...
May 10, 2019•52 min
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 Availa...
Apr 12, 2019•31 min
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 t...
Mar 08, 2019•37 min
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 ...
Feb 08, 2019•30 min
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 Co...
Jan 11, 2019•46 min
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, inclu...
Dec 07, 2018•46 min
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 de...
Jul 02, 2018•36 min
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 an...
May 11, 2018•44 min
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 pa...
Mar 12, 2018•44 min
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...
Feb 09, 2018•33 min
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:...
Jan 12, 2018•38 min
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 mac...
Dec 01, 2017•39 min
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! Follow Us: James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub , Merge Conflict Podcast Pierce: Twitter , GitHub Subscribe: iTunes Google Play Music Overcast Special Guest: James Wh...
Nov 17, 2017•35 min
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 do...
Sep 22, 2017•40 min
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...
Sep 11, 2017•32 min
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 ...
Aug 25, 2017•38 min
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 ne...
Aug 11, 2017•39 min
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 Switc...
Jul 28, 2017•36 min
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 .N...
Jul 10, 2017•43 min
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...
Jun 23, 2017•38 min
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 performanc...
May 26, 2017•37 min
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 ...
May 04, 2017•49 min
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...
Apr 18, 2017•37 min
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 bi...
Apr 07, 2017•33 min
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 mo...
Mar 24, 2017•32 min
