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  <itunes:subtitle>Platform Design vs Custom Design? Fancy Animations? Hours of tweaking and tuning the user interface? Does that really make a great application? It is worth all the work that needs to go these small tiny details? We discuss!</itunes:subtitle>
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&lt;h3&gt;Follow Us&lt;/h3&gt;

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&lt;li&gt;Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by &lt;a href="https://soundcloud.com/adventureface" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Adventureface&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;⭐⭐ &lt;a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/merge-conflict/id1133064277?mt=2&amp;amp;ls=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Review Us&lt;/a&gt; ⭐⭐&lt;/p&gt;

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    <![CDATA[<p>Platform Design vs Custom Design? Fancy Animations? Hours of tweaking and tuning the user interface? Does that really make a great application? It is worth all the work that needs to go these small tiny details? We discuss!</p>

<h3>Follow Us</h3>

<ul>
<li>Frank: <a href="http://twitter.com/praeclarum" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="http://praeclarum.org" target="_blank">Blog</a>, <a href="http://github.com/praeclarum" target="_blank">GitHub</a></li>
<li>James: <a href="http://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="https://montemagno.com" target="_blank">Blog</a>, <a href="http://github.com/jamesmontemagno" target="_blank">GitHub</a></li>
<li>Merge Conflict: <a href="http://twitter.com/mergeconflictfm" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mergeconflictfm" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://mergeconflict.fm" target="_blank">Website</a>, <a href="https://www.mergeconflict.fm/discord" target="_blank">Chat on Discord</a></li>
<li>Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by <a href="https://soundcloud.com/adventureface" target="_blank">Adventureface</a></li>
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<p>⭐⭐ <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/merge-conflict/id1133064277?mt=2&ls=1" rel="nofollow">Review Us</a> ⭐⭐</p>

<p><strong>SUPPORT US ON PATREON</strong>: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/mergeconflictfm" target="_blank">patreon.com/mergeconflictfm</a></p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://raygun.com/mergeconflict?utm_source=mergeconflict">Raygun</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://raygun.com/mergeconflict?utm_source=mergeconflict">Don't wait for users to report problems. Raygun gives you complete visibility on errors, crashes and performance problems affecting your end users. Raygun has full support for .NET, Javascript, Xamarin, and all other major languages and platforms.

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    <![CDATA[<p>Platform Design vs Custom Design? Fancy Animations? Hours of tweaking and tuning the user interface? Does that really make a great application? It is worth all the work that needs to go these small tiny details? We discuss!</p>

<h3>Follow Us</h3>

<ul>
<li>Frank: <a href="http://twitter.com/praeclarum" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="http://praeclarum.org" target="_blank">Blog</a>, <a href="http://github.com/praeclarum" target="_blank">GitHub</a></li>
<li>James: <a href="http://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="https://montemagno.com" target="_blank">Blog</a>, <a href="http://github.com/jamesmontemagno" target="_blank">GitHub</a></li>
<li>Merge Conflict: <a href="http://twitter.com/mergeconflictfm" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mergeconflictfm" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://mergeconflict.fm" target="_blank">Website</a>, <a href="https://www.mergeconflict.fm/discord" target="_blank">Chat on Discord</a></li>
<li>Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by <a href="https://soundcloud.com/adventureface" target="_blank">Adventureface</a></li>
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![Raygun](https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/0/02d84890-e58d-43eb-ab4c-26bcc8524289/jWHBh3Ul.png)</a></li></ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/mergeconflictfm">Support Merge Conflict</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="windows-toolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit: The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helper functions, custom controls, and app services. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building UWP apps for Windows 10. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation." rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/windows-toolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit">windows-toolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit: The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helper functions, custom controls, and app services. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building UWP apps for Windows 10. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.</a></li><li><a title="Xamarin.Forms Visual - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs" rel="nofollow" href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/visual">Xamarin.Forms Visual - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs</a></li><li><a title="Xamarin.Forms 3.5: A Little Bindable Love | Xamarin Blog" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-forms-3-5-a-little-bindable-love/">Xamarin.Forms 3.5: A Little Bindable Love |&nbsp;Xamarin Blog</a></li><li><a title="Get Windows Community Toolkit Sample App - Microsoft Store" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-community-toolkit-sample-app/9nblggh4tlcq?activetab=pivot:overviewtab">Get Windows Community Toolkit Sample App - Microsoft Store</a></li><li><a title="hawkerm/monaco-editor-uwp: A Windows Runtime Component wrapper around the web-based Monaco Editor." rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/hawkerm/monaco-editor-uwp">hawkerm/monaco-editor-uwp: A Windows Runtime Component wrapper around the web-based Monaco Editor.</a></li><li><a title="Welcome to Microsoft To-Do" rel="nofollow" href="https://todo.microsoft.com/en-us">Welcome to Microsoft To-Do</a></li><li><a title="Xamarin Evolve 2014: Using Animations to Bring your Mobile Apps to Life - Jérémie Laval, Xamarin - YouTube" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikSk_ILg3d0">Xamarin Evolve 2014: Using Animations to Bring your Mobile Apps to Life - Jérémie Laval, Xamarin - YouTube</a></li></ul>]]>
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