In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James Montemagno and Pierce Boggan discuss LOTs of new previews for Xamarin developers, including Android O, Xamarin Live Player, iOS 11, and Xamarin.Forms previews for you to try in addition to some exciting community updates.

2:00 Xamarin Live Player Preview 2: Continuously Run & Debug Apps

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In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James Montemagno and Pierce Boggan discuss the new Google Play Services packages, adding Facebook authentication to your mobile apps, and the latest Xamarin preview and stable releases.

4:15 Updates to the Android Support Libraries and Google Play Services

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In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James Montemagno and Pierce Boggan cover the latest mobile .NET development news, including how to get started contributing to Xamarin.Forms, C# 7 tips & tricks, validating user input, Android's BottomNavigationView, and new Xamarin releases.

4:30 How to contribute to Xamarin.Forms

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In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James and Pierce discuss the Xamarin iOS 11 web preview, the latest in Visual Studio for Mac, and our experiences using Visual Studio Mobile Center.

3:50 - XAML productivity tools in Visual Studio for Mac (MFractor)

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In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James and Pierce fill you in on the latest Xamarin news, including how to integrate ads and in-app purchases into your mobile apps, migrating to .NET Standard, planet-scale apps with Cosmos DB, and more!

4:00 - Cool apps built with Xamarin recently

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In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce is joined by James Montemagno, Principal Program Manager for Mobile Developer Tools at Microsoft, to recap the latest news for Xamarin developers, including our thoughts on WWDC 2017, new features in Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac, why Xamarin.Forms Embedding matters, and more.

6:00 - WWDC 2017 and iOS 11

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In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce and David walk you through the early preview of Xamarin.Forms 3.0, announced at Microsoft Build 2017. Learn about new ways you can use Xamarin.Forms in your apps, speed and performance enhancements, and what new platforms are coming to Xamarin.Forms.

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0:30 - Microsoft Build

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Special Guest: David Ortinau.

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James Montemagno is joined by Jon Dick of the Xamarin components team to discuss the Android Support Libraries and Google Play Services. Don't miss this super informative episode overviewing what these important libraries are, why they are necessary, what's new, and how to use them in your apps today.

7:00 - What are the Android Support Libraries?

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Special Guest: Jon Dick.

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• Improvements coming to Xamarin Google Play Services – Redth
• Your App Needs More Google Play Services • Xamarin Evolve 2016 — Jonathan Dick is developer who hails from The Great White North and has been slinging C# for mobile since it was born.
• Implementing Push Notifications in Your Android Apps | Xamarin Blog
• Picking your compileSdkVersion, minSdkVersion, targetSdkVersion
• Snack Pack 11: Understanding Android API Level Settings | The Xamarin Show
• Pick of Show: EditorConfigLanguage: A Visual Studio extension
• Pick of Show: NGraphics is a cross platform library for rendering vector graphics
• Coffeehouse Blunders

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce Boggan is joined by James Montemagno to discuss what is new for Xamarin developers, including new features in the latest Visual Studio for Mac preview, Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4/2.3.5-pre, and updates to Visual Studio Mobile Center.

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5:00 - What's new in Visual Studio for Mac (C# 7, web editors, Azure publishing, .NET Core enhancements)

10:30 - Xamarin documentation is now multilingual (with Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese localizations)

12:00 - Updates to Xamarin University, including monthly pricing

14:00 - Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4

14:55 - Device.OS & TargetPlatform changes in Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4

19:15 - Xamarin.Forms 2.3.5 prerelease

22:15 - Bringing macOS to Xamarin.Forms

25:15 - TLS 1.2 overview

28:15 - Updates to Visual Studio Mobile Center

32:00 - Developer Tool of the Week

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In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce Boggan is joined by David Ortinau, PM at Microsoft for Xamarin.Forms, to discuss the release of Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4 and what's on the roadmap for Xamarin.Forms moving forward.

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01:30 - Introducing the new PM for Xamarin.Forms, David Ortinau

02:30 - What does a typical day look like for David as a PM?

04:30 - Release of Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4 to stable

05:50 - Performance & quality improvements

12:00 - Enhancements to XAMLC

13:50 - New bindable picker control

16:00 - Evolution forum for evolving the future of Xamarin.Forms

17:00 - OnIdiom support for desktop

22:25 - New "nightly" master builds for Xamarin.Forms and other fun ways of trying preview features

27:55 - What are fast renderers? How can they improve the performance of Xamarin.Forms apps?

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Special Guest: David Ortinau.