4:30 How to contribute to Xamarin.Forms
9:30 Validating user input in Xamarin.Forms
12:00 Android's BottomNavigationView - What is it, when should I use it, and how do I integrate it into my apps
19:05 - What's new in C# 7
24:00 - Awesome upcoming Xamarin University lectures on MVVMCross, Prism, Unity, and Roslyn
27:25 - Recent Xamarin Shows on Azure AD and Azure Functions
31:00 New Xamarin releases for version 15.4 and Xcode 9/iOS 11
35:10 Package/Tool of the Podcast

Show Links:

• Beginner's Guide to Contributing for Xamarin.Forms
• Validation in Xamarin.Forms Apps
• Exploring Android's BottomNavigationView
• Getting Started with C# 7
• Join Us for Upcoming Xamarin University Guest Lectures
• Xamarin Show Episode 27: Azure Active Directory Authentication
• Xamarin Show Episode 28: Azure Functions for Mobile Apps
• Alpha Release: 15.4 Alpha 1
• Beta Release: 15.3 Preview 7
• Preview: Xcode 9 Beta 4, iOS 11, macOS 10.13 Support - Preview 3
• Android Design Support Library
• Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Pierce: Twitter, GitHub

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6:00 - WWDC 2017 and iOS 11
11:30 - Easy app provisioning with the Fastlane tools
14:55 - How to boost your app startup time
17:30 - New libraries for Azure identity + Microsoft Graph, including Azure AD and Azure AD B2C
21:10 - Xamarin.Forms Embedding: What is it and why does it matter?
25:10 - What's in Visual Studio 15.2.3 stable and 15.3 previews for Xamarin developers
29:45 - Package/Tool/Library of the Week

Show Links

• WWDC 2017 Recap for iOS Developers
• Merge Conflict Special Edition: WWDC Recap
• Easy iOS App Provisioning with Fastlane and Visual Studio for Mac
• 5 Ways to Boost Xamarin.Forms App Startup Time
• Enterprise Apps Made Easy with New Libraries for Authentication and the Microsoft Graph
• Unleashed: Embedding Xamarin.Forms in Xamarin Native
• Why Xamarin.Forms Embedding Matters
• LottieFiles: Prebuilt high quality animations
• .NET Templating Engine

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Pierce: Twitter, GitHub

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Show Notes:

0:30 - Microsoft Build
4:00 - Xamarin.Forms 3
5:50 - Standardization of custom renderers
6:15 - Xamarin.Forms Embedding
11:45 - Fast renderers and layout compression for increased performance
16:00 - Performance benchmarking in Xamarin.Forms
18:15 - One-time binding mode
20:00 - New FlexLayout system
21:30 - New "backends" for Xamarin.Forms - macOS, GTK#, and WPF
27:00 - Community-driven development
29:45 - XAML Standard 1.0

Links & Show Notes:

• The Xamarin Podcast website
• Channel 9: Designing Mobile Apps
• Channel 9: What's new in Xamarin.Forms
• Xamarin.Forms 3.0
• Pierce: Twitter, GitHub
• David Ortinau: Twitter, GitHub

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Special Guest: David Ortinau.

7:00 - What are the Android Support Libraries?
8:30 - Is it possible to build your app without the Android Support Libraries?
11:45 - What does each Android Support Library do?
15:00 - Versioning for Android Support Libraries, especially in relation to Xamarin.Forms
16:45 - Should you always be using the latest version of the Android Support Libraries?
25:00 - New things in the Android Support Libraries
33:00 - Overview of Google Play Services
44:00 - Tool/Package/Extension of the Week

• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Jon: Twitter, GitHub

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Special Guest: Jon Dick.

Links:

• Improvements coming to Xamarin Google Play Services – Redth
• Your App Needs More Google Play Services • Xamarin Evolve 2016 — Jonathan Dick is developer who hails from The Great White North and has been slinging C# for mobile since it was born.
• Implementing Push Notifications in Your Android Apps | Xamarin Blog
• Picking your compileSdkVersion, minSdkVersion, targetSdkVersion
• Snack Pack 11: Understanding Android API Level Settings | The Xamarin Show
• Pick of Show: EditorConfigLanguage: A Visual Studio extension
• Pick of Show: NGraphics is a cross platform library for rendering vector graphics
• Coffeehouse Blunders

Show Notes:

01:20 - What is MFractor?

04:45 - How Matthew drives feature development for MFractor

07:00 - Journey from idea to product

09:30 - Building add-ins for Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio for Mac

13:45 - Cool tricks anyone can do with Roslyn

22:00 - The moment Matthew realized this could be a product

23:00 - Roslyn code generation tricks and tips

26:50 - The future of MFractor

Links & Show Notes:

• The Xamarin Podcast website
• MFractor
• MFractor Documentation
• Building Add-ins for Xamarin Studio
• Matthew's Guide on Building Add-Ins for Xamarin Studio
• Xamarin University Lecture on Addins
• Roslyn Quoter
• Pierce: Twitter, GitHub
• Matthew Robbins: Twitter, GitHub

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Special Guest: Matthew Robbins.

Show Notes:

0:00:30 - Exciting changes coming to the Xamarin Podcast

0:04:45 - Visual Studio 2017 launch

0:06:30 - The new Visual Studio 2017 workload-based installer

0:11:00 - The Xamarin release process

0:18:30 - New "bootstrapped" cross-platform templates

0:22:20 - New item templates for Xamarin.Forms

0:25:00 - Xamarin.Forms IntelliSense, Info.plist Editor, and various other Visual Studio enhancements

0:27:15 - Updates to Xamarin Studio, including .NET Standard support, multiprocess debugging, and more

0:33:30 - Running Visual Studio for Mac and Xamarin Studio side-by-side

Links & Show Notes:

• The Xamarin Podcast website
• Cycle 9 Release Notes
• Visual Studio 2017 RC
• Visual Studio for Mac Preview
• Pierce: Twitter, GitHub
• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast

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