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Some jobs are just mobile by definition, such as talent scouts for baseball teams. The Minnesota Twins organization recently decided to embrace this and built a new mobile app experience for their scouts to help make their jobs easier and allow for greater collaboration and coordination across the team. In this episode we put our personal baseball allegiances aside briefly to chat with Jeremy Raadt about the app they built, how they built it, and where they see it going in the future!

Special Guest: Jeremy Raadt.

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• MFractor: MFractor seamlessly integrates with Visual Studio for Mac for a superior Xamarin development experience:

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• Minnesota Twins Hits a Home Run with Cloud-Powered Scouting Apps

Heard of React Native but not sure what the hype is all about? We've got you covered! At Microsoft's Build conference we sat down with Ryan Salva and Joe Mellin from the Mobile Center team to chat through React Native, how it works, and how it compares to other approaches such as Xamarin. We also dig into the full app development lifecycle, and how React Native and Mobile Center can help you continuously deliver quality apps to your users.

Special Guests: Joe Mellin and Ryan Salva.

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• Raygun: Discover, diagnose and understand the root cause of error, crash and performance issues in your software applications in seconds! See how your applications are really performing for users and where they encounter problems using Raygun's full stack software intelligence platform.

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• React Native

Designing great mobile experiences is much easier said than done, but is critical to the success of an application. In this episode we sit down with Matt Lacey to talk through what makes a great app experience, as well as some practical approaches and patterns you can use to start to use to improve the experience for your users. Usability matters!

Special Guest: Matt Lacey.

Sponsored By:

• Raygun: Discover, diagnose and understand the root cause of error, crash and performance issues in your software applications in seconds! See how your applications are really performing for users and where they encounter problems using Raygun's full stack software intelligence platform.

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• Usability Matters

Chat bots are everywhere these days! While at Microsoft's Build conference we sat down with David Hamilton to talk about Microsoft's Bot Framework, and how it can help you start creating chat-based experiences for your users on a variety of platforms. We also take a look at his gigseekr service which leverages the Bot Framework, including a live on-air demo of interacting with it via Cortana!

Special Guest: David Hamilton.

Sponsored By:

• MFractor: MFractor seamlessly integrates with Visual Studio for Mac for a superior Xamarin development experience:

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• Bot Framework

How do you prevent your app from shipping with preventable security vulnerabilities? This episode we talk to Martin Alderson of Codified Security about their automated Mobile App Security testing service.

Special Guest: Martin Alderson.

Sponsored By:

• Raygun: Discover, diagnose and understand the root cause of error, crash and performance issues in your software applications in seconds! See how your applications are really performing for users and where they encounter problems using Raygun's full stack software intelligence platform.

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• Codified Security

In this episode we are joined by Rob Lyndon who is working on the Xamarin.Forms.Reactive.FSharp library. We talk to Rob about what Reactive programming is all about, and how it fits into mobile development. Rob goes into detail about what his library does, how it helps Xamarin.Forms developers, and why he created it.

Special Guest: Rob Lyndon.

Sponsored By:

• Raygun: Discover, diagnose and understand the root cause of error, crash and performance issues in your software applications in seconds! See how your applications are really performing for users and where they encounter problems using Raygun's full stack software intelligence platform.

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• Xamarin.Forms.Reactive.FSharp

When it comes to developing and maintaining mobile apps there's a lot to think about, between building, testing, distributing, monitoring, and more. In this episode we dig into Microsoft's new Visual Studio Mobile Center, which provides a solution to many of these lifecycle concerns in a single place.

Special Guests: Luke Kim and Simina Pasat.

Sponsored By:

• Raygun: Discover, diagnose and understand the root cause of error, crash and performance issues in your software applications in seconds! See how your applications are really performing for users and where they encounter problems using Raygun's full stack software intelligence platform.

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• Visual Studio Mobile Center

Over the last few years the Internet of Things has taken over the world, but what is it and what can you do with it? In this episode we're joined by Amanda Lange to walk through what it is, what kinds of experiences you can enable, and how Azure can help you manage your devices and create applications.

Special Guest: Amanda Lange.

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!

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• Azure IoT Developer Center

The Flux architectural pattern has become increasingly common in front-end development, but did you know it's also applicable to mobile apps as well? In this episode we talk to Alex Dunn about Flux, what it is, why it's useful, and his experiences applying it to his Xamarin applications.

Special Guest: Alex Dunn.

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!

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• Video: Xamarin.Flux

Ever wish you could automate more simple tasks in Xamarin Studio or Visual Studio for Mac? Matthew Robbins' MFractor Addin may be exactly what you're looking for with several enhancements designed to speed up the Xamarin.Forms developer experience.

Special Guest: Matthew Robbins.

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!

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• MFractor