Episode 52: Rapid UI Prototyping with Ink to Code, Merged Dictionaries in Xamarin.Forms, Android Emulator Tips, and more!

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce Boggan and James Montemagno talk about a new tool that turns drawings into Android or UWP layouts, merged dictionaries coming to Xamarin.Forms, ways to make your Android emulator experience more awesome, and configuring CI for mobile apps with VSTS.

7:00 Ink to Code

10:00 Wireless deploy to iPhone (Windows & Mac)

12:20 New Preview: Xamarin Android Device Manager

13:45 Speed up your Android emulator boots with quick boot

14:40 Google Play on your Android emulator

16:35 Merged dictionaries come to Xamarin.Forms

21:15 Contribute to Xamarin.Forms F100 effort

24:45 Building Xamarin.Android/iOS apps in VSTS hosted agents

26:10 Unit testing Xamarin.iOS apps in VSTS

28:30 QuickType.io

Show Links:

Ink to Code

Wireless Deploy to iPhone (Windows & Mac)

Preview: Xamarin Android Device Manager

Android Emulator Quick Boot

Just Push Play: Using Google Play on an Android Emulator

Better Resource Organization with Xamarin.Forms

F100

Running Xamarin.iOS Unit Tests in VSTS

Building Xamarin.Android apps in VSTS Hosted Agents

Building Xamarin.iOS apps in VSTS Hosted Agents

QuickType.io

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