The Xamarin Podcast

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.

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.

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.

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, 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, 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 PodcastSpecial 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.