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When it comes to developing and maintaining mobile apps there's a lot to think about, between building, testing, distributing, monitoring, and more. In this episode we dig into Microsoft's new Visual Studio Mobile Center, which provides a solution to many of these lifecycle concerns in a single place. Special Guests: Luke Kim and Simina Pasat.

Over the last few years the Internet of Things has taken over the world, but what is it and what can you do with it? In this episode we're joined by Amanda Lange to walk through what it is, what kinds of experiences you can enable, and how Azure can help you manage your devices and create applications. Special Guest: Amanda Lange.

The Flux architectural pattern has become increasingly common in front-end development, but did you know it's also applicable to mobile apps as well? In this episode we talk to Alex Dunn about Flux, what it is, why it's useful, and his experiences applying it to his Xamarin applications. Special Guest: Alex Dunn.

Ever wish you could automate more simple tasks in Xamarin Studio or Visual Studio for Mac? Matthew Robbins' MFractor Addin may be exactly what you're looking for with several enhancements designed to speed up the Xamarin. Forms developer experience. Special Guest: Matthew Robbins.

The App Store is a crazy place, so why not learn the ins and outs from someone who has been through it all? In this episode we sit down with Amir Rajan, developer of the hit game A Dark Room, to talk through his experiences building a successful game, backed by a mountain of data around metrics, revenue, and more. Special Guest: Amir Rajan.

Interested in trying out some mobile game development but aren't sure where to start? In this episode we talk to Brent Edwards about how he got started, and how CocosSharp makes it easy to dive in and start creating the next big hit game! Special Guest: Brent Edwards.

Deep linking is a great way to help provide engaging experiences for your users, but how do you get started? What can you actually do with deep links? In this episode we talk to Sahil Verma about deep linking and what Branch is doing to help app developers deliver personalized experience for their users. Special Guest: Sahil Verma.

Want to know what this whole serverless thing is about? Learn all about it and what you can do with Azure Functions from Donna Malayeri and Fabio Cavalcante! Special Guests: Donna Malayeri and Fabio Cavalcante.

In this episode we learn all about the Microsoft Graph API from Simon Jager, and how you can build your mobile apps on top of its offerings. Special Guest: Simon Jaegr.

Hybrid apps with Xamarin? You bet! In this episode we're joined by Drew Colthorp and Shawn Anderson to talk about why and how they converted their hybrid app, written in Ember, from Cordova to Xamarin. Special Guests: Drew Colthorp and Shawn Anderson.

In this episode we're joined by Rabeb Othmani to talk about Android Performance Tuning Special Guest: Rabeb Othmani.

In this episode we're joined by Alexandra Marin to talk about Behavior Driven Development for Xamarin Developers Special Guest: Alexandra Marin.

In this episode we're joined by John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, to talk about Pulse - their Real User Monitoring solution for web and mobile apps. Special Guest: John-Daniel Trask.

In this episode we're joined by Tim Anglade and Kristian Dupont from Realm, a mobile-focused database solution that recently launched support for Xamarin. Special Guests: Kristian Dupont and Tim Anglade.

In this episode we're joined by Barnabas Birmacher and Daniel Balla to talk about their continunous integration solution for mobile apps. Looking to get started adding CI for your apps? Listen in to find out how! Special Guests: Barnabas Birmacher and Daniel Balla.

In this episode we talk to Michael Ridland about his experiences as a Xamarin consultant, and dig into his new MVVM framework made specifically for Xamarin Forms called FreshMvvm! Special Guest: Michael Ridland.

In this episode we talk to Chris Williams about hexagonal architectures and how it applies to building cross-platform mobile apps. We dig into what the architecture tries to achieve, the benefits you get from approaching software design with it in mind, and how you might already be doing it without even knowing it! Special Guest: Chris Williams.

This episode covers pretty much everything there is to know about Push Notifications. From Apple’s APNS to Google’s C2DM and GCM, learn about what they are and how they work. We also discuss the benefits and disadvantages of roll your own with PushSharp and using services like Azure, Amazon EC2, Urbanairship and Parse. Special Guest: Jon Dick.

In this episode we're talking about Xamarin. Forms again, but this time around it's a bit different. We're joined once again by Jason Smith, lead developer of Xamarin. Forms, to take a look behind the scenes of Xamarin. Forms. We get into where it came from, inspirations, design decisions, triumps, mistakes, and more. Join us for this peek behind the curtain of creating the Xamarin. Forms framewor...

Interested in getting started writing automated tests for your apps but don't know where to start? In this episode we're joined by Niels Frydenholm to talk about how his team set themselves up for success over at eBay. Special Guest: Niels Frydenholm.

Prism has been around for awhile, and now you can take advantage of it in your Xamarin. Forms apps! In this episode we dig into what Prism is, why you'd want to use it in your mobile apps, and how it fits into Xamarin. Forms apps. Special Guest: Brian Lagunas.

Performance is a huge and important topic, so one episode just wasn't enough. In this episode we talk to Harry Cheung about the performance tests he's been running to see just how all these different mobile app development approaches perform when it comes to raw computation. Special Guest: Harry Cheung.

Ever wanted to know how different app frameworks and approaches compare with each other when it comes to performance? In this episode we spoke to Kevin Ford to dig into exactly that. Join us for a look at how the native SDKs, Xamarin, and Cordova compare for various performance measurements. Special Guest: Kevin Ford.

Continuous integration and delivery is commonplace in the web development world, but has been notoriously difficult to achieve with mobile apps. In this episode we talk to Felix Krause about his fastlane tools that aim to solve multiple pain points in iOS development and deployment by automating everything. Special Guest: Felix Kraus.

When it comes to designing and consuming APIs there is no shortage of approaches out there. In this episode we talk to Darrel Miller about many of these approaches, and ways to design both sides in a modern way to help keep things maintainable and evolvable over time. Special Guest: Darrel Miller.