This month James and Matt talk about new Microsoft Learn modules on the Surface Duo. The continuing saga of the Xamarin.Forms Shell quick tips.

Of course it's a new month and that means there's a new preview version of Visual Studio! Find out all the goodness that goes along with that.

If you wanted to detect if your app was run for the first time ever, or the first time for a new version, or whatevs... Xamarin.Essentials has you covered with a great API.

James and Matt also talk about how to really supercharge your Xamarin.Android app startup times.

There's a ton of Azure news too ... including some confusion over what exactly the service of the month should be!

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

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Lots of new stuff to talk about this month!

Ever want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some drawing in Xamarin.Forms! Well, now in Xamarin.Forms 4.8 you can!

James and Matt discuss all the ins and outs of brushes, gradients and shapes and how you can implement them in your Xamarin.Forms app.

There's also new releases for Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac. Find out about how you can make your .NET meetups shine - and attend some new ones too.

And tell us all about your experience about Entity Framework and Xamarin.

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

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Xamarin.Forms 4.7 is out and the Inverter Converter is all the rage!!

... well ... multi-value bindings are all the rage - but that doesn't have quite the ring of Inverter Converter.

This month James and Matt run down the rest of the great features in Xamarin.Forms 4.7 including how it helps you manage light and dark themes, eliminates the need for James' image circle plug-in, and makes writing Grid row and column definitions so, so, so much easier.

Tune in to hear about some new requirements for submitting Android 10 apps to the Google Play store and get some quick tips on implementing back navigation with Xamarin.Forms Shell too!

Plus - get your blog featured on an upcoming podcast by registering your blog with Planet Xamarin today!

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

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//Build 2020 just happened - remotely!

James and Matt recap all of the great Xamarin announcements - and then you can go out and watch all the sessions.

Plus this episode covers how to build iOS extension while reusing some Xamarin.Forms pages a new Azure + Mobile documentation center and so much more.

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

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Hope everybody is staying healthy!

We have lots of news and new releases to cover this month for you!

Xamarin.Essentials and Xamarin.Forms have new releases. And the Xamarin engineering team was hard at work to get a cross-platform API out for the new contact tracing API from Apple and Google.

James and Matt also talk about //Build, a couple of cool new case studies, and recap the wackiness of the Crazy Cognitive Service Combo Challenge!

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

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Logically embed that authentication ... that doesn't make sense at all ... or does it?

Well it does when James and Matt talk about Azure Logic Apps, embedded fonts, and the brand new Xamarin.Essentials authentication!

Yeah - they have nothing to do with each other whatsoever! 😄

But James and Matt talk about a whole lot more - including a wrap-up of the recently completed .NET Conf - Focus on Xamarin, new releases of Visual Studio for Windows and Mac, and great new tools for making your Android apps faster!

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

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This month James and Matt talk about Xamarin.Forms, Xamarin, and everything related to Xamarin - you could say they Focus on Xamarin.

That's because on March 23, 2020 there's a live streaming event called .NET Conf - Focus on Xamarin! Tune in to get a preview of all the great content coming up.

But of course there's more in store in this pod too! You want the best features of Xamarin.Forms 4.5? You got it. Not enough & you want 4.6 pre-release news too? Done & done! Haven't heard enough about AndroidX yet - well fill you in some more. And we'll even let you know how Xamarin.Essentials released both 1.4 and 1.5 at the same time! (hint... it's all related to AndroidX!)

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

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It's trigger-mania! Mania! On the dancefloor!

This month James and Matt talk about Xamarin.Forms triggers every chance they get - because there's trigger news everywhere!

The dancing doesn't stop there though - Microsoft has new dual screen devices coming out, and you can bet that Xamarin.Forms supports them! We got you covered with all those details.

Xamarin.Forms 4.5 has a pre-release, and you'll want to tune in to find out what great features await you!

Speaking of new features... Visual Studio for Windows and Mac have great new previews out ... what's that I hear? Hot restart and multi-target hot reload?!? Whaa??

There's some cloud news on an Azure Quickstart Center and Azure API Management.

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month!

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New Year - New Decade - New Pod!!

This month James and Matt recover from their holiday hacks to go over the latest and greatest in the world of Xamarin!

There's a new version of Xamarin.Essentials out for the new year. And the new year also brings back a look at the top blogs and videos of 2019.

Whew - the community sure came up with a ton of great ideas for the Santa Talk Challenge and Matt & James talk about the best.

There's a hot new XAML hot reload tips and tricks article you must read and give you the scoop on gRPC and Azure Service Bus.

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and the Pick of the Pod!

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Everything that's new ends with a 4!

This month James and Matt go over the big releases of Visual Studio 16.4 and Xamarin.Forms 4.4!

But there's more than the latest releases! There's news galore! Snnpts Challenge results. Hacktoberfest, and 5 quick tips for getting the most out of the CollectionView are covered.

Would you like to know how serverless fits into Cloud Native? What about the new Azure SDKs? Done and done.

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and the Pick of the Pod!

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