Rapid UI Prototyping with Ink to Code, Merged Dictionaries in Xamarin.Forms, Android Emulator Tips, and more!

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 Android emulator
16:35 Merged dictionaries come to Xamarin.Forms
21:15 Contribute to Xamarin.Forms F100 effort
24:45 Building Xamarin.Android/iOS apps in VSTS hosted agents
26:10 Unit testing Xamarin.iOS apps in VSTS
28:30 QuickType.io

Show Links:

• Ink to Code
• Wireless Deploy to iPhone (Windows & Mac)
• Preview: Xamarin Android Device Manager
• Android Emulator Quick Boot
• Just Push Play: Using Google Play on an Android Emulator
• Better Resource Organization with Xamarin.Forms
• F100
• Running Xamarin.iOS Unit Tests in VSTS
• Building Xamarin.Android apps in VSTS Hosted Agents
• Building Xamarin.iOS apps in VSTS Hosted Agents
• QuickType.io

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• Pierce: Twitter, GitHub

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