Show Notes It's over. Done. Final. Caput. No more. This is the last Xamarin podcast ever. What's going to happen next month? Tune in to find out. But also tune in to find out about the latest updates on .NET MAUI, Visual Studio 2022, what happened to the Xamarin Forums, and learn how to use Chromecast from your Xamarin apps! New releases Visual Studio 2022 - Preview 1 Latest news New .NET forums New .NET MAUI forums Chromecast with Xamarin.Forms New Videos Shiny 2.0 Cloud news Azure Functions: D...
Jul 09, 2021•32 min
Another story of an app built with Xamarin! This time find out about a unique app that takes advantage of the Surface Duo to let you create 360 degree drawings! Download the Sketch 360 app Sketch 360 GitHub repo Microsoft Garage project More info about Sketch 360 for Surface Duo Surface Duo documentation Follow Us: Matt: Twitter , Blog , GitHub...
Jun 25, 2021•42 min
Show Notes Can you believe it - Build has come and gone and there's so much goodness to talk about with .NET MAUI - and David Ortinau is back to fill us all in. Plus we have the latest updates on the updates to Visual Studio and Visual Studio Mac and how to make your Xamarin.Forms apps more accessible and beautiful. And there's some great cloud news for Azure Function fans! All this and more! New releases .NET MAUI update Visual Studio v16.10 and v16.11 preview out Visual Studio Mac v8.10 out La...
Jun 11, 2021•39 min
Another customer success story! This time find out how Blackbaud started from no Xamarin experience to delivering a complexing mobile payment terminal to help nonprofits - even with bindings to hardware! Follow Us: Matt: Twitter , Blog , GitHub
May 28, 2021•47 min
This month James & Matt welcome back David Ortinau from an update on .NET MAUI and all the other goodness that you expect. Show Notes New releases Visual Studio v16.10 Preview 2 Visual Studio 2022 Update Cascadia Code Latest news Xamarin accessible apps The Journey to Accessible Apps Accessible apps on the Xamarin Show Xamarin Community Toolkit updates for accessibility Accessibility Learn module Microsoft Ability Summit Cloud news Optimize costs w/ Azure Blob Storage Learn modules: OpenAPI ...
May 14, 2021•36 min
It's another customer story - this time find out how LivePerson enables apps to talk with a live person in customer support scenarios. Show Notes Find out more about LivePerson WebRTC on iOS Follow Us: Matt: Twitter , Blog , GitHub...
Apr 23, 2021•37 min
David Ortinau sites down with us to answer a TON of listener questions on .NET MAUI. Plus we got some cloud news & of course the Pick of the Pod!! Show Notes Latest news Great looking settings screens for Xamarin.Forms Cloud news Microservice March w/ Let's Learn Microservices Cloud Learning Resources for .NET Devs Azure service of the month! Azure Health Bot Pick of the pod! Visual Studio XAML Code Generation Comet Extension for VS Code Learn Live Follow Us: James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub ,...
Apr 09, 2021•53 min
It's another customer story - and on this podcast hear about the amazing app that pairs with snowmobiles, motorcycles, off-road, and other powersports vehicles. Find out how the developers at Polaris created an app that allows you to find trails, and track your position along the trail - so you can ride safely. And make sure your friends do too. And it even generates 3D fly-thrus of your ride so you can share them later! All of that and more on this Xamarin Podcast! Show Notes Ride Command Memor...
Mar 26, 2021•44 min
Matt and James are joined by David Ortinau for a special update on .NET MAUI. Plus a whole lot of other updates on new releases of Visual Studio for Mac and Windows, the latest news on the Xamarin Community Toolkit, and an amazing ASP.NET Core Web API series ... yes, we talk web in a Xamarin pod! Show Notes New releases MAUI Update w/ David Ortinau .NET 6 – Preview 1 Visual Studio v16.9 out – v16.10 preview 1 What's new in Visual Studio 16.9 Live Stream Visual Studio Mac 8.9 Latest news Tabs w/ ...
Mar 12, 2021•42 min
It's the Xamarin Community Toolkit extravaganza! The toolkit it out! It's glorious! You should use it today because it'll solve all of your Xamarin app development needs! .... or it'll at least make your life a bit easier ... James and Matt talk all about the Community Toolkit, what's all inside of it, and the new video series that goes along with it too! And they also talk about customizing Radio Buttons to your exact UI needs. .NET MAUI ... .NET MAUI .. and more .NET MAUI - and they even sneak...
Feb 12, 2021•38 min
Tune in to find out how Medusa used Xamarin and Azure to create an app to help the mobile healthcare clinician in the field to capture patient care info! XamCat code samples Medusa Medical Follow Us: James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub , Merge Conflict Podcast Matt: Twitter , Blog , GitHub...
Jan 22, 2021•43 min
Xamarin.Forms 5.0 has just been released. And it's all Xamarin.Forms 5 all the time in this special podcast! Principal Program Manager David Ortinau join James and Matt to lead them through all the new exciting bits in Xamarin.Forms 5.0. Show Notes Xamarin.Forms 5 is here! NYE at the Space Needle My Cadence app Follow Us: James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub , Merge Conflict Podcast Matt: Twitter , Blog , GitHub...
Jan 08, 2021•47 min
In this podcast Matt interviews Kiran Gandla and Chandra Poshala from American Airlines about the app that helps keep the airline running. Xamarin and Azure play a big part and our very own MCAT team helped pave the way too! Follow Us: James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub , Merge Conflict Podcast Matt: Twitter , Blog , GitHub...
Dec 18, 2020•32 min
It's the end of the year and in December's podcast James and Matt wrap up 2020 by talking about a cool new app that lets you draw 360 degree sketches with the Surface Duo - made with Xamarin.Forms! Azure Mobile Apps v4.2 is official, there's a brand new Microsoft Q&A site. And you don't want to miss a sneak preview of what's to come with .NET MAUI! Show Notes New Releases Sketch360 + Xamarin.Forms + Surface Duo Azure Mobile Apps v4.2 Visual Studio 16.9 Preview 2 Latest News Microsoft Q&A...
Dec 11, 2020•41 min
iRel8 is an amazing app built with Xamarin that helps people during the toughest moments in life. iRel8 facilitates mental wellness using Xamarin - find out the heartfelt story behind this app in this episode of the Xamarin podcast. Follow Us: James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub , Merge Conflict Podcast Matt: Twitter , Blog , GitHub...
Nov 20, 2020•51 min
This month James and Matt talk about the new Apple silicone, XBox ... and of course some Xamarin and Azure too! .NET 5 is out! And with that there are some great Xamarin enhancements in the latest version of Visual Studio. Find out how to update your Android manifest files so you can still send emails in Android 11. And there's a new version of Azure Mobile App Services ... what?!? Show Notes New Releases .NET 5 .NET Conf All the new Xamarin newness (XAML Hot Reload 2.0 with Binding Failures, iO...
Nov 13, 2020•26 min
Seeing AI is an app for iOS that narrates the world around you. And it's built with Xamarin and Azure. In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Matt talks to the folks behind Seeing AI. The history of the app, how it was built, and the challenges and successes encountered along the way. All of this in this episode of the Xamarin Podcast. Download Seeing AI today - it's amazing! Follow Us: James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub , Merge Conflict Podcast Matt: Twitter , Blog , GitHub Special Guests: Alexey ...
Oct 23, 2020•29 min
This month James and Matt talk about all of the new releases that are out and ready for you to code with in October! There's a new iOS. There has to be a new XCode then too. What would another month be without a new Xamarin.Forms preview release be? And this one is Xamarin.Forms 5!! And there's Xamarin.Essentials too! It's not all new releases though in this pod - lots of news to talk about too. Hack your way to some swag with Hacktoberfest. Find out about the Fabulous world of functional progra...
Oct 09, 2020•32 min
In this special episode of the Xamarin Podcast - Matt talks to the folks behind the Oscars app. You'll find out a ton of great insights on how the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences built a Xamarin.tvOS app, lift and shifted their infrastructure to Azure, and released a Xamarin.Forms app too. All with a little help with our friends from Microsoft's Mobile Customer Advisory Team! Follow Us: James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub , Merge Conflict Podcast Matt: Twitter , Blog , GitHub...
Sep 22, 2020•43 min
This month James and Matt talk about new Microsoft Learn modules on the Surface Duo. The continuing saga of the Xamarin.Forms Shell quick tips. Of course it's a new month and that means there's a new preview version of Visual Studio! Find out all the goodness that goes along with that. If you wanted to detect if your app was run for the first time ever, or the first time for a new version, or whatevs... Xamarin.Essentials has you covered with a great API. James and Matt also talk about how to re...
Sep 11, 2020•34 min
Lots of new stuff to talk about this month! Ever want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some drawing in Xamarin.Forms! Well, now in Xamarin.Forms 4.8 you can! James and Matt discuss all the ins and outs of brushes, gradients and shapes and how you can implement them in your Xamarin.Forms app. There's also new releases for Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac. Find out about how you can make your .NET meetups shine - and attend some new ones too. And tell us all about your experience abou...
Aug 14, 2020•37 min
Xamarin.Forms 4.7 is out and the Inverter Converter is all the rage!! ... well ... multi-value bindings are all the rage - but that doesn't have quite the ring of Inverter Converter. This month James and Matt run down the rest of the great features in Xamarin.Forms 4.7 including how it helps you manage light and dark themes, eliminates the need for James' image circle plug-in, and makes writing Grid row and column definitions so, so, so much easier. Tune in to hear about some new requirements fo...
Jul 10, 2020•28 min
//Build 2020 just happened - remotely! James and Matt recap all of the great Xamarin announcements - and then you can go out and watch all the sessions. Plus this episode covers how to build iOS extension while reusing some Xamarin.Forms pages a new Azure + Mobile documentation center and so much more. And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod! Show Notes Latest News Xamarin Build Updates .NET MAUI Learn TV Learn what Learn TV is all about Shell Quick Tip: Passing Data Re...
Jun 12, 2020•34 min
Hope everybody is staying healthy! We have lots of news and new releases to cover this month for you! Xamarin.Essentials and Xamarin.Forms have new releases. And the Xamarin engineering team was hard at work to get a cross-platform API out for the new contact tracing API from Apple and Google. James and Matt also talk about //Build, a couple of cool new case studies, and recap the wackiness of the Crazy Cognitive Service Combo Challenge! And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of ...
May 08, 2020•37 min
Logically embed that authentication ... that doesn't make sense at all ... or does it? Well it does when James and Matt talk about Azure Logic Apps, embedded fonts, and the brand new Xamarin.Essentials authentication! Yeah - they have nothing to do with each other whatsoever! 😄 But James and Matt talk about a whole lot more - including a wrap-up of the recently completed .NET Conf - Focus on Xamarin, new releases of Visual Studio for Windows and Mac, and great new tools for making your Android ...
Apr 10, 2020•45 min
This month James and Matt talk about Xamarin.Forms, Xamarin, and everything related to Xamarin - you could say they Focus on Xamarin. That's because on March 23, 2020 there's a live streaming event called .NET Conf - Focus on Xamarin! Tune in to get a preview of all the great content coming up. But of course there's more in store in this pod too! You want the best features of Xamarin.Forms 4.5? You got it. Not enough & you want 4.6 pre-release news too? Done & done! Haven't heard enough ...
Mar 13, 2020•32 min
It's trigger-mania! Mania! On the dancefloor! This month James and Matt talk about Xamarin.Forms triggers every chance they get - because there's trigger news everywhere! The dancing doesn't stop there though - Microsoft has new dual screen devices coming out, and you can bet that Xamarin.Forms supports them! We got you covered with all those details. Xamarin.Forms 4.5 has a pre-release, and you'll want to tune in to find out what great features await you! Speaking of new features... Visual Stud...
Feb 14, 2020•42 min
New Year - New Decade - New Pod!! This month James and Matt recover from their holiday hacks to go over the latest and greatest in the world of Xamarin! There's a new version of Xamarin.Essentials out for the new year. And the new year also brings back a look at the top blogs and videos of 2019. Whew - the community sure came up with a ton of great ideas for the Santa Talk Challenge and Matt & James talk about the best. There's a hot new XAML hot reload tips and tricks article you must read ...
Jan 10, 2020•41 min
Everything that's new ends with a 4! This month James and Matt go over the big releases of Visual Studio 16.4 and Xamarin.Forms 4.4! But there's more than the latest releases! There's news galore! Snnpts Challenge results. Hacktoberfest, and 5 quick tips for getting the most out of the CollectionView are covered. Would you like to know how serverless fits into Cloud Native? What about the new Azure SDKs? Done and done. And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and the Pick of the Pod! Show N...
Dec 13, 2019•44 min
In this month's episode James and Matt talk a bit about everything. From previewing this year's HUGE Ignite Conference, to talking about the incredible bumper on Matt's new Channel 9 show - Partly Cloudy - the guys hit it all this month. They also discuss the new release of Xamarin.Forms 4.3 , and how to find out what's new with the new stuff! James explains the new App Bundle Support coming to Visual Studio - and why that's a great thing for you and your Android applications! That and a ton of ...
Nov 08, 2019•39 min
