Summary: <p>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.</p> <p>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, including DevOps, MSAL, and new Azure Cosmos DB pricing.</p> <p>All of this, and a whole lot more!</p> <p>Links:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/free?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou" rel="nofollow">Get Some Free Azure!</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.xamarin.com/twitch-workshop-build-your-first-mobile-app/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou" rel="nofollow">Twitch Workshop: Build Your First Mobile App with C#, Xamarin, and the Cloud</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.xamarin.com/android-build-performance-reliability/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou" rel="nofollow">Android build performance and reliability!</a></li> <li><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/app-fundamentals/accessibility/keyboard?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou" rel="nofollow">Tabbing and Keyboard Navigation in Xamarin.Forms</a></li> <li><a href="https://https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/imagebutton?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou" rel="nofollow">Image Button</a></li> <li><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/xamarin.forms.span?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou" rel="nofollow">Span Class</a></li> <li><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/text/label?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou" rel="nofollow">Decorate that Xamarin.Forms Label!</a></li> <li><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/text/editor?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou" rel="nofollow">Xamarin.Forms Editor</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/jonathanpeppers/glidex" rel="nofollow">GlideX</a></li> <li><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/services/devops/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou" rel="nofollow">Learn more about Azure DevOps</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-dotnet/wiki/msal-net-2-released" rel="nofollow">MSAL 2.0 - Authenticate all the things - now better!</a></li> <li><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/azure-cosmos-db-new-shared-database-offer-now-available/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou" rel="nofollow">New Azure Cosmos DB shared database offer</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.xamarin.com/connect-2018-xamarin-announcements/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou" rel="nofollow">2018 Connect Announcements for Xamarin</a></li> <li><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/app-fundamentals/shell?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou" rel="nofollow">Xamarin.Forms Shell</a></li> <li><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/visual?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou" rel="nofollow">Xamarin.Forms Visual</a></li> <li><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/collectionview?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou" rel="nofollow">Forget about the ListView and use the CollectionView!</a></li> <li> <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/videos/342827636" rel="nofollow">James' Twitch - Implementing an iOS Checkbox for Xamarin.Forms</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/essentials/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou" rel="nofollow">Xamarin.Essentials - it's in GA!</a> and <a href="https://github.com/xamarin/Essentials" rel="nofollow">check out the code</a>!</li> <li> <a href="https://developer.xamarin.com/releases/xamarin-forms/xamarin-forms-4.0/4.0.0-pre1/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou" rel="nofollow">Super early preview release notes for Xamarin.Forms 4.0-pre!</a> and while you're at it - <a href="https://www.nuget.org/packages/Xamarin.Forms/4.0.0.8055-pre1" rel="nofollow">give it a spin</a> in your apps!</li> <li><a href="https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/preview/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou" rel="nofollow">Get the Visual Studio 2019 Preview!</a></li> <li><a href="https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/intellicode/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou" rel="nofollow">The machines are coming for our intellisense! VS Intellicode</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-forms-and-zeplin-speed-up-your-design-to-development-process/" rel="nofollow">Zeplin - speed up your design process</a></li> <li><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/cli/azure/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou" rel="nofollow">Azure CLI</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/ignite-the-tour/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou" rel="nofollow">Microsoft Ignite | The Tour</a></li> </ul> <p>Follow Us:</p> <ul> <li>James: <a href="https://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://montemagno.com" rel="nofollow">Blog</a>, <a href="http://github.com/jamesmontemagno" rel="nofollow">GitHub</a>, <a href="http://mergeconflict.fm" rel="nofollow">Merge Conflict Podcast</a> </li> <li>Matt: <a href="https://twitter.com/codemillmatt" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://codemilltech.com" rel="nofollow">Blog</a>, <a href="https://github.com/codemillmatt" rel="nofollow">GitHub</a> </li> </ul>
