Episode 46: Latest Preview and Stable Xamarin Releases, Social Authentication, Realm, and more!

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 9:10 Adding native Facebook authentication to your apps 14:30 Integrating with OneDrive for Business (and other Office APIs) 17:00 Realm Goes .NET Core 20:00 Xamarin app of the week 22:10 Mobile dev for desktop developers 23:00 New stable and preview releases for Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac 32:00 Tool/Package of the Week Show Links: Fast & Simple Android Location Updates with Google Play Services (https://blog.xamarin.com/fast-simple-android-location-updates-with-google-play-services/) Native Android Facebook Authentication with Azure App Service (https://blog.xamarin.com/native-android-facebook-authentication-azure-app-service/) Adding Storage to Mobile Apps with OneDrive for Business (https://blog.xamarin.com/adding-storage-mobile-apps-onedrive-business/) Introducing .NET Core Support for Realm (https://blog.realm.io/introducing-dot-net-core-support-for-realm/) Speech Central Makes it Easier to Browse the Internet Hands-Free (https://blog.xamarin.com/speech-central-makes-easier-browse-internet-hands-free/) Webinar: Take your .NET Skills from the Desktop to Android and iOS (https://blog.xamarin.com/live-webinar-take-net-skills-desktop-android-ios/) Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.3 Released (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2017/08/14/visual-studio-2017-version-15-3-released/) Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4 Preview 1 Release Notes (https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/releasenotes/vs2017-preview-relnotes) Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin 4.7 Release Notes (https://developer.xamarin.com/releases/vs/xamarin.vs_4/xamarin.vs_4.7/) Visual Studio for Mac 7.2 Release Notes (https://developer.xamarin.com/releases/vs-mac/vs-mac_7.2/vs-mac_7.2/) SQLite.NET (https://www.nuget.org/packages/sqlite-net-pcl) FFImageLoading (https://github.com/luberda-molinet/FFImageLoading) Follow Us: James: Twitter (https://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno), Blog (http://motzcod.es/), GitHub (http://github.com/jamesmontemagno), Merge Conflict Podcast (http://mergeconflict.fm) Pierce: Twitter (https://twitter.com/pierceboggan), GitHub (https://github.com/pierceboggan) Subscribe: iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/xamarin-podcast/id691368176?mt=2) Google Play Music (https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ifcss44ww5lc375esulsuettsey) Overcast (https://overcast.fm/itunes691368176/xamarin-podcast)