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.

Sponsored By:

• Raygun: Raygun.io is the fastest and easiest way to track your application's errors and get the level of detail you need to fix crashes quickly. Notifications are delivered right to your inbox and presented on a beautiful dashboard.

Links:

• Bitrise

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.

Sponsored By:

• Raygun: Raygun.io is the fastest and easiest way to track your application's errors and get the level of detail you need to fix crashes quickly. Notifications are delivered right to your inbox and presented on a beautiful dashboard.

Links:

• FreshMvvm 1.0 Released
• FreshMvvm on GitHub
• have i been pwned?

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.

Sponsored By:

• Raygun: Raygun.io is the fastest and easiest way to track your application's errors and get the level of detail you need to fix crashes quickly. Notifications are delivered right to your inbox and presented on a beautiful dashboard.

Links:

• MixRadio
• Think Hexagonal Architecture for Cross-Platform Mobile Apps
• Hexagonal Architecture
• Chris Williams at Evolve 2016

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.

Sponsored By:

• Raygun: Raygun.io is the fastest and easiest way to track your application's errors and get the level of detail you need to fix crashes quickly. Notifications are delivered right to your inbox and presented on a beautiful dashboard.

Links:

• PushSharp
• redth.codes blog
• Apple APNS Docs
• Google GCM Docs

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 framework!

Special Guest: Jason Smith.

Sponsored By:

• Raygun: Raygun.io is the fastest and easiest way to track your application's errors and get the level of detail you need to fix crashes quickly. Notifications are delivered right to your inbox and presented on a beautiful dashboard.

Links:

• Xamarin.Forms
• Episode 13: Xamarin.Forms
• Xamarin.Forms ListView Performance

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.

Sponsored By:

• Raygun: Raygun.io is the fastest and easiest way to track your application's errors and get the level of detail you need to fix crashes quickly. Notifications are delivered right to your inbox and presented on a beautiful dashboard.

Links:

• Better Apps & Faster Release Cycles: Part 1
• Better Apps & Faster Release Cycles: Part 2
• Better Apps & Faster Release Cycles: Part 3
• Better Apps & Faster Release Cycles: Part 4

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.

Sponsored By:

• Raygun: Raygun.io is the fastest and easiest way to track your application's errors and get the level of detail you need to fix crashes quickly. Notifications are delivered right to your inbox and presented on a beautiful dashboard.

Links:

• First look at the Prism for Xamarin.Forms Preview
• Prism.Forms on NuGet
• Prism Grows Up
• What's New in Prism for Xamarin.Forms

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.

Sponsored By:

• Raygun: Raygun.io is the fastest and easiest way to track your application's errors and get the level of detail you need to fix crashes quickly. Notifications are delivered right to your inbox and presented on a beautiful dashboard.

Links:

• Mobile App Performance
• Mobile App Performance Redux

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.

Sponsored By:

• Raygun: Raygun.io is the fastest and easiest way to track your application's errors and get the level of detail you need to fix crashes quickly. Notifications are delivered right to your inbox and presented on a beautiful dashboard.

Links:

• Performance Comparisons: Part 1
• Performance Comparisons: Part 2

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.

Sponsored By:

• Raygun: Raygun.io is the fastest and easiest way to track your application's errors and get the level of detail you need to fix crashes quickly. Notifications are delivered right to your inbox and presented on a beautiful dashboard.

Links:

• Fastlane