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.

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 Evolve 2014: Use Hypermedia for less App Store Hassle
• HTTP: 1.1
• HTTP: Message Syntax and Routing
• HTTP: Semantics and Content
• HTTP: Range Requests
• HTTP: Caching
• Fielding's dissertation
• Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET
• GitHub's API - Hypermedia
• OData - Batch Processing
• Collection+JSON
• Runscope.WebPack
• Tavis.UrlTemplates
• Tavis.PrivateCache
• GitLinks

Learning to write iOS apps can be a daunting task, especially if you've never written any code before. In this episode we're joined by Reinder de Vries to talk about his approach to teaching people how to write iOS apps, and his experiences along the way.

Special Guest: Reinder de Vries.

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:

• LearnAppMaking.com

Performance matters, especially when it comes to mobile development. Join us as we talk to Tammy Everts about the ins and outs of mobile web performance!

Special Guest: Tammy Everts.

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:

• 2014 State of the Union for Mobile Ecommerce Performance
• 7 Mobile Web Performance Myths Debunked
• Why is Ember 3x - 5x slower on Android?
• WebPageTest
• Ghostery
• Android Fragmentation Visualized
• Enough with Javascript Already

APIs have historically been difficult to debug and monitor, and Runscope was founded to help solve this problem. Join us as we talk to John Sheehan about what Runscope offers, and how developers can leverage it to make API development more enjoyable.

Special Guest: John Sheehan.

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:

• Runscope
• Mocky

Security is more important today than ever, and mobile apps are no different. Troy Hunt joins us to talk about some common mistakes developers make when developing APIs and apps, and some practical approaches to securing them.

Special Guest: Troy Hunt.

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:

• Hack Your API First
• OWASP Top 10
• Android Browser Flaw
• WiFi Pineapple
• Fiddler
• Charles

Join us again for our annual show discussing all the new features in the latest version of iOS! Mike Bluestein joins us once more, and there’s lots to talk about!

Special Guest: Mike Bluestein.

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:

• Introduction to iOS8
• Today Widget Blog Post
• Auto Layout: Easy Layout by Frank Krueger
• Auto Layout: FluentContraints by Stuart Lodge
• Paint Code
• iOS View Effects

iBeacons are an emerging technology with a lot of exciting applications. In this episode we talked to Doug Thompson to dive into what they are, how they're used, and where beacons are heading in the future.

Special Guest: Doug Thompson.

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:

• beekn
• AltBeacon
• Build Context-Aware Apps with iBeacons
• PayPal Beacon

Learn all about Azure Mobile Services from some fine folks at Microsoft. We sit down with Kirill and Yavor to talk about the many features of Azure, specifically relating to mobile!

Special Guests: Kirill Gavrylyuk and Yavor Georgiev.

Links:

• Azure Mobile Services
• Capptain
• Visual Studio Azure Update

Not every app has to have a massive budget. Kevin Knoop joins us this episode to talk about his experiences with building apps on the cheap. You'll be surprised how little his House Alarm app costs him to run!

Special Guest: Kevin Knoop.

Links:

• House Alarm App
• Digital Ocean Hosting
• App Annie
• Fiverr
• Urban Airship

Learn how to build cross platform, native apps using Xamarin.Forms! We talk to Jason Smith, one of the developers of Xamarin.Forms about the product, it's strengths and weaknesses over other MVVM libraries, and how to get started!

Special Guest: Jason Smith.

Links:

• Xamarin.Forms