
Episode 78: The Oscars
09/22/20 • 42 min
In this special episode of the Xamarin Podcast - Matt talks to the folks behind the Oscars app.
You'll find out a ton of great insights on how the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences built a Xamarin.tvOS app, lift and shifted their infrastructure to Azure, and released a Xamarin.Forms app too.
All with a little help with our friends from Microsoft's Mobile Customer Advisory Team!
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In this special episode of the Xamarin Podcast - Matt talks to the folks behind the Oscars app.
You'll find out a ton of great insights on how the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences built a Xamarin.tvOS app, lift and shifted their infrastructure to Azure, and released a Xamarin.Forms app too.
All with a little help with our friends from Microsoft's Mobile Customer Advisory Team!
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Episode 77: Surface Duo, Android Startup Times, and Xamarin.Essentials
This month James and Matt talk about new Microsoft Learn modules on the Surface Duo. The continuing saga of the Xamarin.Forms Shell quick tips.
Of course it's a new month and that means there's a new preview version of Visual Studio! Find out all the goodness that goes along with that.
If you wanted to detect if your app was run for the first time ever, or the first time for a new version, or whatevs... Xamarin.Essentials has you covered with a great API.
James and Matt also talk about how to really supercharge your Xamarin.Android app startup times.
There's a ton of Azure news too ... including some confusion over what exactly the service of the month should be!
And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!
Show Notes
New Releases
- Visual Studio v16.8 Preview 2
- XAML hot reload for UWP in action
- Microsoft Learn Surface Duo Developer Training for Xamarin.Forms
Latest News
- App first run detection with Xamarin.Essentials
- Profiling Xamarin.Android startup
- Xamarin.Forms Shell Quick Tips: Modal Navigation
Azure News
- Managed Identities w/ Azure Functions
- Azure Cosmos DB for the SQL Professional
- Understanding Azure Cosmos DB for relational data
Azure Service of the Month
Pick of the Pod!
As always, get yourself some free Azure here!
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Episode 79: October of Releases
This month James and Matt talk about all of the new releases that are out and ready for you to code with in October!
There's a new iOS. There has to be a new XCode then too. What would another month be without a new Xamarin.Forms preview release be? And this one is Xamarin.Forms 5!! And there's Xamarin.Essentials too!
It's not all new releases though in this pod - lots of news to talk about too.
Hack your way to some swag with Hacktoberfest. Find out about the Fabulous world of functional programming. And did you know the Oscars have an app - and it's made with Xamarin?!?
And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!
Show Notes
New Releases
- XCode 12 & iOS 14
- Xamarin.Forms 5 preview
- Xamarin.Essentials 1.6 preview
- Xamarin.Essentials 1.6 feature matrix
Latest News
Azure News
New Xamarin Videos
Azure Service of the Month
Pick of the Pod!
As always, get yourself some free Azure here!
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