The App Store is a crazy place, so why not learn the ins and outs from someone who has been through it all? In this episode we sit down with Amir Rajan, developer of the hit game A Dark Room, to talk through his experiences building a successful game, backed by a mountain of data around metrics, revenue, and more.

Special Guest: Amir Rajan.

Sponsored By:

• Raygun: Raygun provides error and crash reporting software for all programming languages and platforms including iOS, Android, Xamarin, Javascript and more. Don't just log errors and crashes, solve them with Raygun!

Links:

• Surviving the App Store book
• Amir's Blog
• Amir's Games
• A Dark Room

Interested in trying out some mobile game development but aren't sure where to start? In this episode we talk to Brent Edwards about how he got started, and how CocosSharp makes it easy to dive in and start creating the next big hit game!

Special Guest: Brent Edwards.

Sponsored By:

• Raygun: Raygun provides error and crash reporting software for all programming languages and platforms including iOS, Android, Xamarin, Javascript and more. Don't just log errors and crashes, solve them with Raygun!

Links:

• CocosSharp
• Mobile Game Development blog series
• Mirror Maze

Deep linking is a great way to help provide engaging experiences for your users, but how do you get started? What can you actually do with deep links? In this episode we talk to Sahil Verma about deep linking and what Branch is doing to help app developers deliver personalized experience for their users.

Special Guest: Sahil Verma.

Sponsored By:

• Raygun: Raygun provides error and crash reporting software for all programming languages and platforms including iOS, Android, Xamarin, Javascript and more. Don't just log errors and crashes, solve them with Raygun!

Links:

• Branch
• Xamarin SDK

Want to know what this whole serverless thing is about? Learn all about it and what you can do with Azure Functions from Donna Malayeri and Fabio Cavalcante!

Special Guests: Donna Malayeri and Fabio Cavalcante.

Sponsored By:

• Raygun: Raygun provides error and crash reporting software for all programming languages and platforms including iOS, Android, Xamarin, Javascript and more. Don't just log errors and crashes, solve them with Raygun!

Links:

• Azure Functions
• Azure App Service Team Blog
• Azure Functions Documentation
• Azure Functions Samples
• ContosoMoments Sample: Code
• ContosoMoments Sample: Website
• ContosoMoments Sample: iOS App
• Azure Functions GitHub Repo
• Azure Functions Forum
• Azure Functions StackOverflow
• Getting Started with Azure Functions and F#

In this episode we learn all about the Microsoft Graph API from Simon Jager, and how you can build your mobile apps on top of its offerings.

Special Guest: Simon Jaegr.

Sponsored By:

• Raygun: Raygun provides error and crash reporting software for all programming languages and platforms including iOS, Android, Xamarin, Javascript and more. Don't just log errors and crashes, solve them with Raygun!

Links:

• Xamarin Sample with MvvmCross for Microsoft Graph
• Microsoft Graph
• Microsoft Graph Property Manager Sample for Xamarin

Hybrid apps with Xamarin? You bet! In this episode we're joined by Drew Colthorp and Shawn Anderson to talk about why and how they converted their hybrid app, written in Ember, from Cordova to Xamarin.

Special Guests: Drew Colthorp and Shawn Anderson.

Sponsored By:

• Raygun: Raygun provides error and crash reporting software for all programming languages and platforms including iOS, Android, Xamarin, Javascript and more. Don't just log errors and crashes, solve them with Raygun!

Links:

• Native HTML Apps with Xamarin
• Sample Project
• Ember.js

In this episode we're joined by Rabeb Othmani to talk about Android Performance Tuning

Special Guest: Rabeb Othmani.

Sponsored By:

• Raygun: Raygun provides error and crash reporting software for all programming languages and platforms including iOS, Android, Xamarin, Javascript and more. Don't just log errors and crashes, solve them with Raygun!

Links:

• Rabeb's Website

In this episode we're joined by Alexandra Marin to talk about Behavior Driven Development for Xamarin Developers

Special Guest: Alexandra Marin.

Sponsored By:

• Raygun: Raygun provides error and crash reporting software for all programming languages and platforms including iOS, Android, Xamarin, Javascript and more. Don't just log errors and crashes, solve them with Raygun!

Links:

• .NET Fringe
• SpecFlow

In this episode we're joined by John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, to talk about Pulse - their Real User Monitoring solution for web and mobile apps.

Special Guest: John-Daniel Trask.

Sponsored By:

• Raygun: Raygun provides error and crash reporting software for all programming languages and platforms including iOS, Android, Xamarin, Javascript and more. Don't just log errors and crashes, solve them with Raygun!

Links:

• Raygun Pulse - Real User Monitoring
• Episode 4: Tracking Errors with Raygun

In this episode we're joined by Tim Anglade and Kristian Dupont from Realm, a mobile-focused database solution that recently launched support for Xamarin.

Special Guests: Kristian Dupont and Tim Anglade.

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:

• Realm
• Introducing Realm Xamarin
• Realm on GitHub