Pierce Boggan

Episode 55: What's New in Visual Studio 2017, Xamarin.Forms, and the Android designer

July 2nd, 2018  |  35 mins 41 secs

android, build 2018, css, designer, essentials, flexlayout, google play, intellisense, ios, mongodb, xamarin

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce Boggan and James Montemagno discuss the latest & greatest in mobile .NET development, including Xamarin.Forms 3.0 and 3.1, Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 and 15.8, updates to the Android designer, and more!

Episode 54: Build 2018 Recap

May 11th, 2018  |  44 mins 12 secs

android, css, essentials, flexlayout, hyper-v, ios, right to left localization, visual state manager, visual studio, xamarin.forms

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce Boggan and James Montemagno discuss news from Build 2018 for mobile developers, including Xamarin.Forms 3.0, Hyper-V support for the Android emulator, Xamarin Essentials, and updates to Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio for Mac.

Episode 53: Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6, AR with UrhoSharp, and ML with CoreML

March 12th, 2018  |  43 mins 37 secs

android, behaviors, coreml, ios, microsoft, tizen, tvml, visual studio, xamarin, xamarin.forms

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce Boggan and James Montemagno discuss the all of the fun features from the new Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 stable release, including macOS environment setup and iOS WiFi deployment. They also discuss building AR and ML into your mobile apps, and take a look at how you can add Tizen as a deployment target for your Xamarin.Forms apps.

Episode 52: Rapid UI Prototyping with Ink to Code, Merged Dictionaries in Xamarin.Forms, Android Emulator Tips, and more!

February 9th, 2018  |  32 mins 33 secs

android, ci, device manager, google play, ink to code, ios, microsoft, quicktype, vsts, windows, wireless deploy

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.

Episode 51: Android 8.1, Xamarin Device Manager, and Visual Studio versions 15.5 & 15.6

January 11th, 2018  |  38 mins 26 secs

android, app center, coreml, f#, ios, microsoft, smarthotel360, visual studio, xamarin, xamarin.mac

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce Boggan and James Montemagno cover Android 8.1, the new Xamarin Device Manager Preview, what’s new for mobile developers in Visual Studio versions 15.5/15.6, and share their favorite Xamarin moments from 2017.

Episode 50: Xamarin.Forms 2.5.0, Live Player, and What's New in Visual Studio

December 1st, 2017  |  39 mins 12 secs

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James Montemagno and Pierce Boggan cover the latest news for mobile developers from Microsoft Connect(); 2017, including updates to Xamarin.Forms, the Live Player, Visual Studio 2017, and Visual Studio for Mac.

Episode 48: Android Oreo, iOS 11, and Xamarin.Forms Tips & Tricks

September 22nd, 2017  |  40 mins 18 secs

android o, dotfuscator, dotnetconf, ios 11, visual studio, xamarin forms

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James Montemagno and Pierce Boggan cover Xamarin support for Android Oreo and iOS 11, share tips for beating the learning curve with Xamarin.Forms, talk upcoming releases in the pipeline, and more!

Episode 47: Android Oreo Support, Xamarin Live Player Preview 2, New iOS 11 Previews, and more!

September 11th, 2017  |  32 mins 2 secs

android, appmap, connectivity plugin, infragistics, ios, ios 11, live player, microsoft, mvp, netstandard, oreo, preview, university, urhosharp, xamarin, xamarin.forms, xcode 9

Episode 46: Latest Preview and Stable Xamarin Releases, Social Authentication, Realm, and more!

August 25th, 2017  |  37 mins 46 secs

.net standard, android, authentication. .net core, facebook, ffimageloading, google play, ios, microsoft, onedrive visual studio, pcl, sqlite-net, support library, xamarin

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James Montemagno and Pierce Boggan discuss the new Google Play Services packages, adding Facebook authentication to your mobile apps, and the latest Xamarin preview and stable releases.

Episode 45: Contributing to Xamarin.Forms, C# 7, Input Validation, Android's BottomNavigationView, and more!

August 11th, 2017  |  39 mins 29 secs

android, apple, azure ad, azure functions, bottomnavigationview, c#, cosmos db, forms, google, ios, microsoft, mvvmcross, prism, roslyn, unity, xamarin.forms, xcode

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James Montemagno and Pierce Boggan cover the latest mobile .NET development news, including how to get started contributing to Xamarin.Forms, C# 7 tips & tricks, validating user input, Android's BottomNavigationView, and new Xamarin releases.

Episode 44: Building Apps with iOS 11, Visual Studio for Mac, and Mobile Center

July 28th, 2017  |  36 mins 2 secs

android, android support libraries, apple, google, guitar center, ios, ios 11, mfractor, microsoft, mobile center, nintendo switch, urban refuge, visual studio

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James and Pierce discuss the Xamarin iOS 11 web preview, the latest in Visual Studio for Mac, and our experiences using Visual Studio Mobile Center.

Episode 43: App Monetization, .NET Standard, Azure Cosmos DB, and more!

July 10th, 2017  |  42 mins 58 secs

.net standard, ads, cosmos db, in app purchases, media manager plugin, microsoft, version tracking plugin, visual studio, xamarin, xamarin forms

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James and Pierce fill you in on the latest Xamarin news, including how to integrate ads and in-app purchases into your mobile apps, migrating to .NET Standard, planet-scale apps with Cosmos DB, and more!

Episode 42: WWDC 2017, Fastlane, Xamarin.Forms Embedding, and more!

June 22nd, 2017  |  37 mins 56 secs

adal, android, c#, dotnet templating engine, fastlane, forms embedding, ios, lottiefiles, microsoft, microsoft graph, msal, wwdc, xamarin, xamarin.forms

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce is joined by James Montemagno, Principal Program Manager for Mobile Developer Tools at Microsoft, to recap the latest news for Xamarin developers, including our thoughts on WWDC 2017, new features in Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac, why Xamarin.Forms Embedding matters, and more.

Episode 41: Previewing Xamarin.Forms 3.0

May 25th, 2017  |  36 mins 40 secs

android, c#, fast renderers, gtk#, ios, layout compression, macos, microsoft, wpf, xamarin, xaml, xaml standard

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce and David walk you through the early preview of Xamarin.Forms 3.0, announced at Microsoft Build 2017. Learn about new ways you can use Xamarin.Forms in your apps, speed and performance enhancements, and what new platforms are coming to Xamarin.Forms.

Episode 39: Building Up to Build

April 18th, 2017  |  36 mins 37 secs

android, forms, ios, keystore, macos, microsoft, mobile center, performance, tls, visual studio, visual studio for mac, xamarin, xamarin university

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce Boggan is joined by James Montemagno to discuss what is new for Xamarin developers, including new features in the latest Visual Studio for Mac preview, Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4/2.3.5-pre, and updates to Visual Studio Mobile Center.

Episode 38: Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4 & Beyond

April 6th, 2017  |  32 mins 35 secs

2.3.4, bindable picker, david ortinau, evolution forum, forms, microsoft, nightly builds, onidiom, performance, pierce boggan, quality, roadmap, visual studio, visual studio for mac, xamarin, xamarin studio, xamarin.forms, xamlc

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce Boggan is joined by David Ortinau, PM at Microsoft for Xamarin.Forms, to discuss the release of Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4 and what's on the roadmap for Xamarin.Forms moving forward.