The .NET MAUI Podcast

Lots of new stuff to talk about this month! Ever want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some drawing in Xamarin. Forms! Well, now in Xamarin. Forms 4.8 you can! James and Matt discuss all the ins and outs of brushes, gradients and shapes and how you can implement them in your Xamarin. Forms app. There's also new releases for Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac. Find out about how you can...

Xamarin. Forms 4.7 is out and the Inverter Converter is all the rage!! ... well ... multi-value bindings are all the rage - but that doesn't have quite the ring of Inverter Converter. This month James and Matt run down the rest of the great features in Xamarin. Forms 4.7 including how it helps you manage light and dark themes, eliminates the need for James' image circle plug-in, and makes writing...

//Build 2020 just happened - remotely! James and Matt recap all of the great Xamarin announcements - and then you can go out and watch all the sessions. Plus this episode covers how to build iOS extension while reusing some Xamarin. Forms pages a new Azure + Mobile documentation center and so much more. And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod! Show Notes Latest News Xamar...

Hope everybody is staying healthy! We have lots of news and new releases to cover this month for you! Xamarin. Essentials and Xamarin. Forms have new releases. And the Xamarin engineering team was hard at work to get a cross-platform API out for the new contact tracing API from Apple and Google. James and Matt also talk about //Build, a couple of cool new case studies, and recap the wackiness of t...

Logically embed that authentication ... that doesn't make sense at all ... or does it? Well it does when James and Matt talk about Azure Logic Apps, embedded fonts, and the brand new Xamarin. Essentials authentication! Yeah - they have nothing to do with each other whatsoever! 😄 But James and Matt talk about a whole lot more - including a wrap-up of the recently completed .NET Conf - Focus on Xam...

This month James and Matt talk about Xamarin. Forms, Xamarin, and everything related to Xamarin - you could say they Focus on Xamarin. That's because on March 23, 2020 there's a live streaming event called .NET Conf - Focus on Xamarin! Tune in to get a preview of all the great content coming up. But of course there's more in store in this pod too! You want the best features of Xamarin. Forms 4.5?...

It's trigger-mania! Mania! On the dancefloor! This month James and Matt talk about Xamarin. Forms triggers every chance they get - because there's trigger news everywhere! The dancing doesn't stop there though - Microsoft has new dual screen devices coming out, and you can bet that Xamarin. Forms supports them! We got you covered with all those details. Xamarin. Forms 4.5 has a pre-release, and yo...

New Year - New Decade - New Pod!! This month James and Matt recover from their holiday hacks to go over the latest and greatest in the world of Xamarin! There's a new version of Xamarin. Essentials out for the new year. And the new year also brings back a look at the top blogs and videos of 2019. Whew - the community sure came up with a ton of great ideas for the Santa Talk Challenge and Matt &amp...

Everything that's new ends with a 4! This month James and Matt go over the big releases of Visual Studio 16.4 and Xamarin. Forms 4.4! But there's more than the latest releases! There's news galore! Snnpts Challenge results. Hacktoberfest, and 5 quick tips for getting the most out of the CollectionView are covered. Would you like to know how serverless fits into Cloud Native? What about the new Azu...

In this month's episode James and Matt talk a bit about everything. From previewing this year's HUGE Ignite Conference, to talking about the incredible bumper on Matt's new Channel 9 show - Partly Cloudy - the guys hit it all this month. They also discuss the new release of Xamarin. Forms 4.3 , and how to find out what's new with the new stuff! James explains the new App Bundle Support coming to V...

In this month's episode James and Matt recap .NET Conf! .NET Conf just happened and if you missed anything don't worry, because... We. Have. You. Covered. There were a ton of great announcements and we talk about them all. Including all of the Xamarin related sessions, what Hot Restart is, and the release of a ton of .NET 101 videos. Oh ... and did you know that XAML Hot Reload is hiding in plain...

In this month's episode James and Matt talk a bit about everything. iOS 13 and Android 10 are hot off the presses. Xamarin. Forms 4.2 is too! There's something cool called Boots that will keep your feet dry in the pool of continuous integration and Azure Functions now has Dependency Injection! Plus the Pick of the Pod! As always, get yourself some free Azure here ! Show Notes Check out all the goo...

In this month's episode James and Matt love Android almost as much as they love going to the dentist ... seriously! There's a ton of Android goodness to discuss and they tackle it all! You've heard of Android Start-up Tracing - now find out how it makes your app faster! What's all the hubbub about AndroidX? James has got your covered! And did you know there's a great session from the Xamarin Devel...

It's July and we're in Houston for the Xamarin Developer Summit!! And it's 🔥🔥🔥hot hot hot🔥🔥🔥!! But it's not the temperature outside - it's because Xamarin. Forms XAML now has HOT RELOAD! 🔥🔄 If that's not mind bending enough - we cover a ton of other great stuff in this pod too! There's a ton, ton, ton of new Android improvements. AndroidX, startup tracing, JetPacks - find out what those al...

Wait no more to set a high score with Xamarin. Forms 4, it ain't no bore! That's right, Xamarin. Forms 4.0 has officially been released and it's on fire! Join James and Matt as they discuss the new features of 4.0, preview this summer's Xamarin Developer Summit, talk about some Android fun, and explore the ins and outs of Azure Event Grid. As always, get yourself some free Azure here ! Show Notes...

It's the first full week in May and that can only mean one thing - it's Microsoft //Build time!! Join James and Matt as they recap the highlights and announcements from this year's Build event. As always, get yourself some free Azure here ! Show Notes Build playlist on Xamarin YouTube channel .NET 5 announcement Visual Studio App Center Auth Visual Studio App Center Data Visual Studio App Center a...

After all the preview releases - Visual Studio 2019 finally was released and this week Matt and James run down the highlights for Xamarin developers! This episode isn't just limited to VS2019 though - Android, Apple Watch, Xamarin.iOS, and a surprise announcement await too! Tune in! As always, get yourself some free Azure here ! Show Notes What's New In Visual Studio 2019 Visual Studio 2019 Releas...

Lots of new great stuff to talk about this month! New, new, new web pages galore! Xamarin landing documentation page, Xamarin development blog, and customer app showcase! James tells us how to debug ASP.NET Core Web APIs from Android, and find out what POP means. All of that this month and more! Show Notes Brand new Xamarin documentation landing page! One stop shop for all the Microsoft developmen...

In this episode, James and Matt discuss the latest previews of Visual Studio and Visual for Mac. There's new stuff for Xamarin. Forms, Android keeps on getting faster, App Center's new features are mapped out, and C++ makes an appearance?!? Tune in for all of this and more! Show Notes Download the Visual Studio 2019 Preview What's in VS 2019 For You! Intellisense and Intellicode Improvements Intel...

In this first episode of the New Year - and the second month in a row - James and Matt chat about the office hours that Matt's been hosting with the community. James has some big news about Hockey App ... or is that App Center now? Xamarin University is retiring, but Xamarin. Essentials is now a star of its own video series! James will give you a rundown of his hands on experiences with Xamarin. F...

In this month's episode we reboot the podcast! Matt Soucoup, a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft joins James as host and we expand the topics to focus both on Xamarin mobile development and using Azure with your mobile apps. In this episode we recap the latest news in the Xamarin world including a marathon Twitch workshop, wondering Android build time improvements, the latest news in Xamarin. For...

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! 2:00 Getting your Android apps ready for Google Play's new Target API level requirements 8:00 See Xamarin. Forms 3.0 in action with the open...

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. 6:20 What's new in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 6:30 New XAML IntelliSense engine 9:55 Automatic iOS provisioning 13:...

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce Boggan and James Montemagno discuss 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. 3:30 HOT BITS! Visu...

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 Androi...