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183: How This Thing Is Made

January 6th, 2020  |  44 mins 52 secs

android, drone, drones, equipment, ios, new year, podcast, production, xamarin

What started off as a conversation about flying around drones turned into a full podcast about how we make this very podcast production you are listening to.

182: Introduction to Electrical Engineering

December 30th, 2019  |  50 mins 19 secs

android, electrical engineering, esp32, ios, iot, meadow, raspberry pi, xamarin

To close out 2019 we go back to the basics with a little introduction to IoT, which means an introduction to electrical engineering. James is guided through the journey of understanding out all of this cool fun tech works by Frank, the electrical engineer himself.

181: Hacking The Holidays

December 23rd, 2019  |  44 mins 32 secs

ai, android, ios, iot, kotlin, ml, swift, xamarin

It is time for some holiday hacks! Tune in to see what Frank & James are hacking on through the holidays.

180: Cloud Powered GPUs

December 16th, 2019  |  39 mins 35 secs

android, devops, dual screen, gpu, ios, xamarin

We are back for our 18th installment of lightning topics! We cover several topics each covered in 5 minutes. This week we cover more DevOps, large PRs to Xamarin, System.Threading.Channels, GPUs, and what the next thing in tech is.

179: Analyzing All That Data

December 9th, 2019  |  54 mins 34 secs

analytics, android, app center, app insights, data, ios, ios 9, telemetry, xamarin

After a year of gathering data in his apps, Frank finally sat down to analyze it all. Did it answer his questions? Did he make changes to the app? Did he rip the telemetry out completely? Tune in.

178: Building C# with Mads Torgersen

December 2nd, 2019  |  49 mins 5 secs

android, c#, csharp, f#, ios, microsoft, xamarin

James sits down with the legendary Mads Torgersen to talk about how the team at Microsoft builds C# and works with the community to plan out and iterate on new features.

177: DevOps, DevOps, DevOps

November 25th, 2019  |  1 hr 6 mins

ado, android, appcenter, azure devops, bitrise, continuous delivery, continuous integration, devops, ios, testflight, xamarin

It is all things DevOps for mobile apps this week. We try to get Frank inline with figuring out continuous delivery with several different products including App Center, Azure DevOps, Bitrise, and more.

176: The Ultimate Developer Machine

November 18th, 2019  |  57 mins 52 secs

16-inch, apple, development, ios, macbook, macbook pro, machine, xamarin

Apple has finally put the Pro back in MacBook Pro with the new 16-inch. We discuss if this is finally the ultimate developer machine, what we would pick, why we would pick it, and if you really need to spend this month money :)

175: #nullable enable

November 11th, 2019  |  45 mins 27 secs

android, c# 8, csharp, ios, nullable, nullable reference types, xamarin

The time is now! Turn on C# 8 in all of your projects and enable Nullable Reference Types! James is a convert and he explains why in this week's pod.

174: LangVersion ??= C# 8

November 4th, 2019  |  49 mins 31 secs

.net core, android, c# 8, csharp, dot-net, ios, uwp, xamarin

The time has come for C# 8 and all of the glorious features it brings! Go time!

173: RISC Is Good

October 28th, 2019  |  43 mins 56 secs

android, architecture, arm, cpu, intel, ios, macos, risc, touchbar, x86, xamarin

Devices are a changing! ARM is slowly taking over the world, now fully running the new Surface Pro X and the touchbar on macOS. What is next for CPU architecture and what does it mean for developers?

172: Who Turned Out The Lights?

October 21st, 2019  |  43 mins 14 secs

accessibility, android, dark mode, design, ios, themes, xamarin, xamarin.forms

Now that the betas are over and the .1 releases are out, it is finally time to actually integrate new features into our app. No better place to start than dark mode! So many considerations when attempting to implement this. Implicit, explicit, system themes? Where to start? We discuss.

171: The Beta Hangover

October 14th, 2019  |  45 mins 14 secs

The beta summers are over and it is time for the beta hangovers where we have to somehow deal with all of the craziness now that new operating systems are out.

170: 10 Ways To Develop Faster And Better

October 7th, 2019  |  41 mins 28 secs

accessibility, android, duo, f#, ios, neo, silly, staying positive, surface, xamarin

Hold on to your seats, because it is time for lighting topics! Surface announcements, state of F#, election update, accessibility, Google silliness, and how to stay positive.

169: A Love Letter To Immutable Data

September 30th, 2019  |  50 mins 35 secs

android, conference, f#, ios, mac, updates, visual studio, visual studio 2019, xamarin, xamarin.forms

Frank is headed off to the Open F# conference where he will be giving a talk entitled "Why I wish I wrote my app in F#" and he gives us a sneak peek at what everyone is in store for.

168: The World of Protocol Buffers

September 23rd, 2019  |  47 mins 8 secs

.net core, android, asp.net, grpc, ios, net-core, proto, protocol buffers, web, xamarin

What are protocol buffers? Why do we care? How do we use them, and what the heck is gRPC?!?!?