Episode 48: Android Oreo, iOS 11, and Xamarin.Forms Tips & Tricks

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James Montemagno and Pierce Boggan cover Xamarin support for Android Oreo and iOS 11, share tips for beating the learning curve with Xamarin.Forms, talk upcoming releases in the pipeline, and more! 6:00 Building Xamarin apps for Android Oreo & iOS 11 12:15 Xamarin.Forms: Tips for Beating the Learning Curve 14:40 Installing Visual Studio 2017 previews side-by-side with stable (and sandboxing!) 18:25 Protecting your Xamarin apps with Dotfuscator 20:00 dotNetConf Announcements & Sessions 24:45 New stable release for Xamarin developers 26:00 Xamarin.Forms 2.4.0-prerelease 28:00 Package/Tool of the Podcast Show Links: Xamarin.Android 8.0 Gets Even Sweeter with Oreo (https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-android-8-0-gets-even-sweeter-with-oreo/) Get Your Apps Ready for iOS 11 (https://blog.xamarin.com/get-apps-ready-ios-11/) Xamarin.Forms: Tips for Beating the Learning Curve (https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-forms-tips-beating-learning-curve/) Installing Visual Studio Previews (https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/XamarinShow/Snack-Pack-21-Installing-Visual-Studio-2017-Preview) Protecting Apps with Dotfuscator (https://blog.xamarin.com/protecting-xamarin-apps-dotfuscator/) dotNetConf (https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/dotnetconf/2017) dotNetConf: What's New in Xamarin (https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/dotnetConf/2017/T114) Stable Release: 15.3.5 with Xcode 9 and iOS 11 Support (https://releases.xamarin.com/stable-release-15-3-5-with-xcode-9-support/) Xamarin.Forms 2.4.0-pre (https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/93181/pre-release-xamarin-forms-2-4-0-275-pre3) Waffle.io (waffle.io) Quicktype: Json to C# (https://montemagno.com/convert-json-to-any-language-with-quicktype/) 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)