Find out what exactly AppLinks are, how they work, and how you can use Rivets to add support for them to your own .NET apps.

Links:

• AppLinks.org
• Xamarin Blog: Creating Connected App Experiences with AppLinks and Rivets
• Redth Blog: What are AppLinks?
• Rivets - AppLinks for .NET

James Montemagno from Xamarin discusses Portable Class Libraries with us. Learn what PCL's are, how to use them in your Xamarin projects, and what the Advanced PCL or Bait and Switch PCL trick exactly is (hint: use platform specific code with PCL's!).

Special Guest: James Montemagno.

Links:

• Motz Codes - James' Blog
• Shared Code Projects in VS: Windows Phone, Windows Store, and Xamarin!
• Example of PCL's with Platform Specific Code
• Xamarin Studio NuGet Addin
• Paul Betts: The Bait and Switch PCL Trick

Wayne Carter from Couchbase and Zack Gramana from Xamarin talk to us about Couchbase Lite for Mobile.

Special Guests: Wayne Carter and Zack Gramana.

Links:

• Couchbase Lite
• N1QL - New Query Language
• Getting Started Guide
• Couchbase Lite Xamarin Component

John Sonmez talks to us about the importance of building a strong personal brand in software development. John discusses not only why it's important, but how developers can get out there to start marketing themselves and building their brand.

Special Guest: John Sonmez.

Links:

• John's Blog
• John's book on how to market yourself as a software developer

Ben's been working on an interesting new framework called Monkey Arms which is inspired by Robot Legs for Flash.

Special Guest: Ben Bishop.

Links:

• Monkey Arms
• Robot Legs

We force Frank Krueger to talk to us about F#!

Special Guest: Frank Krueger.

Links:

• Frank's Site/Blog
• Xamarin Podcast
• iCircuit
• Dave Thomas
• Calca

Jesse Liberty talks to us about his recent ventures into Mobile development with Xamarin.Android!

Special Guest: Jesse Liberty.

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:

• Jesse's Blog
• Jesse's mini-series on Learning Xamarin.Android
• Falafel Software
• GenyMotion Android Emulator
• Book: Mobile Development with C#
• Book: Professional Android Programming with Mono for Android and .NET/C#

We sit down with Jonathan Peppers from Hitcents to talk about writing Games using MonoGame and Xamarin for iOS, Android, Windows and more!

Special Guest: Jonathan Peppers.

Links:

• MonoGame
• MonoGame Adventure - Draw a Stickman: EPIC
• Hitcents
• Battlepillars
• Draw a Stickman Epic
• Harlem Shake App

We sit down with John-Daniel Trask and Jeremy Boyd of Mindscape to talk about their Error Reporting service Raygun.io and how it fits in with Mobile and Xamarin apps.

Special Guests: Jeremy Boyd and John-Daniel Trask.

Links:

• Raygun
• Mindscape
• Raygun Xamarin Component

Paul Betts talks with us about all things Reactive: Reactive Extensions (Rx), Reactive UI (RxUI), and how they fit together in a Microsoft and Xamarin mobile world. Paul also discusses his Akavache and Splat libraries, and his new Live-coding experiment!

Special Guests: James Clancey and Paul Betts.

Links:

• Reactive Extensions
• Reactive UI
• Paul's GitHub
• Akavache
• Splat
• Refit
• RxUI Live (Watch Paul Live-Code!)