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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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:

5:00 - What's new in Visual Studio for Mac (C# 7, web editors, Azure publishing, .NET Core enhancements)

10:30 - Xamarin documentation is now multilingual (with Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese localizations)

12:00 - Updates to Xamarin University, including monthly pricing

14:00 - Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4

14:55 - Device.OS & TargetPlatform changes in Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4

19:15 - Xamarin.Forms 2.3.5 prerelease

22:15 - Bringing macOS to Xamarin.Forms

25:15 - TLS 1.2 overview

28:15 - Updates to Visual Studio Mobile Center

32:00 - Developer Tool of the Week

Links & Show Notes:

• The Xamarin Podcast website
• Visual Studio for Mac to the Cloud & Beyond
• Xamarin Documentation Goes Multilingual
• Monthly Pricing for Xamarin University
• Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4
• Podcast: Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4 & Beyond
• Xamarin.Forms: Device.OS changes
• Xamarin.Forms: OnPlatform changes
• Xamarin.Forms 2.3.5
• Preview: Bringing macOS to Xamarin.Forms
• Xamarin.Forms Performance Thread
• Securing Web Requests with TLS 1.2
• Visual Studio Extension: Snippet Designer
• Android Keystore Signature Tool
• Amazing James Montemagno Gif
• Pierce: Twitter, GitHub
• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast

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Show Notes:

01:30 - Introducing the new PM for Xamarin.Forms, David Ortinau

02:30 - What does a typical day look like for David as a PM?

04:30 - Release of Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4 to stable

05:50 - Performance & quality improvements

12:00 - Enhancements to XAMLC

13:50 - New bindable picker control

16:00 - Evolution forum for evolving the future of Xamarin.Forms

17:00 - OnIdiom support for desktop

22:25 - New "nightly" master builds for Xamarin.Forms and other fun ways of trying preview features

27:55 - What are fast renderers? How can they improve the performance of Xamarin.Forms apps?

Links & Show Notes:

• The Xamarin Podcast website
• Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4 Overview, Release Notes
• Feature Roadmap for Xamarin.Forms
• Evolution Forum
• Nightly Builds
• Pierce: Twitter, GitHub
• David Ortinau: Twitter, GitHub

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Special Guest: David Ortinau.