Frank Krueger

About Your Co-Host

Frank is an independent mobile developer living in Seattle, WA. He started work as an embedded systems engineer, moved on to be a web developer, and eventually found happiness as an iOS developer. He has written iCircuit - an interactive electronic circuit simulator that runs on all the great platforms; Calca - the text editor that is also a powerful calculator; and Continuous - a fun and powerful .NET IDE for the iPad. All the while, Frank has enjoyed releasing open source projects and contributing as much as he can to the software development community. His programming interests include computer graphics, simulation, programming languages, and artificial intelligence. When he's not at his computer, you can usually find him hiking around some mountain or sleeping in a tent by a river.

Frank Krueger has Co-hosted 65 episodes

Merge Conflict 63: Who Needs a Phone Anymore

September 18th, 2017 | 1 hr 15 secs
android, apple keynote, apple tv, apple tv 4k, apple watch, ios, ios 11, iphone x, watchos, xamarin

It is that time of the year when Apple unveils all of the brand new toys for consumers and developers. Sure everyone is talking about the new iPhone X, Apple Watch Series 3, and Apple TV 4K , but what about the launch of Xcode 9, iOS 11, and watchOS 4? We got you covered and discuss it all!

Merge Conflict 62: Snacking on Android Oreo

September 11th, 2017 | 52 mins 8 secs
android, android 8, android oreo, api 26, ios 11, notifications, oreo, picture-in-picture

We have survived the beta summers and Android 8.0 Oreo is finally out with a plethora of beautiful APIs. We discuss all the delicious bits of this lovely release for both developers and end users.

Merge Conflict 61: Getting to the Core of ARCore

September 4th, 2017 | 37 mins 40 secs
android, arcore, arkit, augmented reality, ios, light estimation, motion tracking, uwp, virtual reality, vr, windows, xamarin

We just can't get enough of augmented reality and the awesome new SDKs that are being created for developers to use. This week we discuss Google's attempt for Android and web developers with ARCore.

Merge Conflict 60: Hacking Frank's Apartment

August 28th, 2017 | 35 mins 4 secs
android, azure, azure functions, c# 8, hacking, ios, navigation, serverless compute, soylent, xamarin, xamarin.forms

We are back with lightning talk week here on Merge Conflict. We cover 6 awesome topics in 30 minutes! This week we look at C# 8, Bottom Navigation on Android, Hacking Frank's Apartment with Serverless Compute, and so much more!

Merge Conflict 59: Managing Open Source Projects

August 21st, 2017 | 52 mins 47 secs
c#, contributing, github, issues, maintaining, merge conflict, open source, projects, pull requests, sqllite-net, xamarin

This week we take an inside look at what it takes to actually maintain an open source project or in James' case 50 open source projects. How do you handle issues, PRs, CI, and how to stay sane when that blue GitHub notification bubble will never go away!

Merge Conflict 58: Dealing with Rejection

August 14th, 2017 | 42 mins 38 secs
android, app store, developer, google play, guidelines, ios, rejection, xamarin

It is that dreaded time in every iOS developers life when you get that rejection notice from app store because you broke one or eight of the App Store guidelines. This week we look at how to deal with these rejections and how to handle phone calls with Apple!

Merge Conflict 57: Let's Learn the Machines

August 7th, 2017 | 47 mins 30 secs
ai, android, computers, coreml, ios, ios 11, machine learning, tensorflow, xamarin

Why bother with ARKit when you can learn all about the machines with CoreML! This week we explore all the goodies that apple has for us in iOS 11's CoreML. We also attempt to demystify exactly what is machine learning and how to get started.

Merge Conflict 56: Take on ARKit

July 31st, 2017 | 51 mins 4 secs
android, apple, arkit, augmented reality, ios, ios 11, pokemon go, tango, urho3d, urhosharp, xamarin

Apple has blessed us with a beautiful API for augmented reality with ARKit and this week we investigate all of the awesome baked in, what you can and can't do with it, and look at all the awesome things people are already building.

Merge Conflict 55: Mac vs PC

July 24th, 2017 | 50 mins 43 secs
development, mac, mac vs pc, macos, pc, visual studio, windows 10, xamarin

It is that age old debate... Mac vs PC! What is the most optimal operating system for development, what are the ups and downs of each, and what are our favorite tools to keep us productive regardless of where we are working.

Merge Conflict 54: Dropping in on the iPad

July 17th, 2017 | 47 mins
android, augmented reality, drag drop, ios, ios 11, ipad, iphone, machine learning, wwdc, xamarin, xamarin.forms

iOS 11 is packed full of awesome with machine learning, augmented reality, and a full file system, but who cares about that? Let's talk about our new favorite feature: Drag & Drop!