The Xamarin Podcast

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Louis, and Mike James.

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.xamarin.com/getting-started-with-xamarin-forms-windows-10-preview/ Special Guest: Mike James.

Join Mike (@MikeCodesDotNet) and Pierce (@pierceboggan) as they recap the announcements from Apple's Special Event on September 9th, 2015. Special Guest: Mike James.

Xamarin Insights with James and Mike by Xamarin Podcast Special Guest: Mike James.

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.

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 services: http://arteksoftware.com/resilient-network-services-with-xamarin/ Special Guest: Mike James.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/3-653 .NET Foundation - http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/ Universal Projects - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2014/04/14/using-visual-studio-to-build-universal-xaml-apps.aspx Mobile Services + Xamarin + PCL - https://github.com/paulbatum/mobile-services-xamarin-pcl Using Xamarin to take Existing .NET Apps Cross Platform - http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Using-Xamarin-to-take-Existing-NET-Apps-Cross-Platform Xamarin and REST APIs - https://www.youtube.

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-xamarin-podcast/tracks, or subscribe via the iTunes link here: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/xamarin-podcast/id691368176?mt=2! Apple CarPlay - http://www.apple.com/ios/carplay/ TestFlight Owner Burstly Acquired By Apple - http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/21/rumor-testflight-owner-burstly-is-being-acquired-by-apple/ Google Glass updates slow down ahead of KitKat upgrade - http://news.cnet.com/8301-10353-57619794-94/google-glass-updates-slow-down-ahead-of-kitkat-upgrade/ Get Scanning With Google Glass - http://chrisntr.githu

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/johnnyleedemoswiiremotehacks.html Enhancing Cross-Platform Mobile Development in Xamarin Using MvvMCross and Ninja Coder - http://www.devx.com/blog/devissues/enhancing-cross-platform-mobile-development-in-xamarin-using-mvvmcross-and-ninja-coder.html VS Toolbox - Cross Platform Development With Xamarin - http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/visual-studio-toolbox/cross-platform-development-with-xamarin Using Estimotes With Xamarin.Android - http://www.opgenorth.net/blog/2014/02/16/using-estimotes-with-xamarin-dot-android/ eyeBeacon - http://penn

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://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2014/01/01/xamarin-how-to.aspx Watch LINQ to Twitter On Glass - http://geekswithblogs.net/winaz/archive/2014/01/10/watch-linq-to-twitter-on-glass.aspx GlassPrompter, the Google Glass Teleprompter - http://rogerpincombe.com/glassprompter Google Glass Template for Visual Studio - http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/0299716a-24ba-41f0-8b97-2f4992bb91a8 Automated UI Testing with Cucumber and Calabash - http://praeclarum.org/post/73655359097/automated-ui-testing-with-cucumber-and-calabash

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://www.meetup.com/seattlemobiledevelopers Belkin WeMo Insight Switch - http://www.belkin.com/us/p/p-f7c029/ Belkin WeMo SDK - http://developers.belkin.com/wemo/sdk Google Glass Add-in for Xamarin Studio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyjb4qox9fm Google Glass Add-in on GitHub - https://github.com/chrisntr/glassaddin Glass Developers GDK Reference Documentation - https://developers.google.com/glass/develop/gdk/reference/index Find A Cat Google Glass on GitHub - https://github.com/patridge/okglassfindacat MarkdownSharp.Port