Episode 54: Build 2018 Recap

In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Pierce Boggan and James Montemagno discuss news from Build 2018 for mobile developers, including Xamarin.Forms 3.0, Hyper-V support for the Android emulator, Xamarin Essentials, and updates to Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio for Mac. 6:20 What's new in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 6:30 New XAML IntelliSense engine 9:55 Automatic iOS provisioning 13:00 Eager deployment for Android app development 14:15 Android SDK management 16:00 New Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android project templates 17:10 Hyper-V support for the Android emulator 24:30 Xamarin.Essentials 33:30 Xamarin.Forms 3.0 All Things Xamarin at Build 2018 (https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-build-2018/) Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2018/05/07/visual-studio-2017-version-15-7-and-version-15-8-preview-1/) New Xamarin.Forms IntelliSense (https://blog.xamarin.com/new-xamarin-forms-xaml-intellisense-visual-studio-2017/) Automatic Provisioning in Visual Studio 2017 (https://blog.xamarin.com/automatic-provisioning-visual-studio-2017/) Eager Deployment (https://blog.xamarin.com/visual-studio-2017-version-15-7-preview-3/) New Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android Project Templates (https://blog.xamarin.com/new-xamarin-android-ios-templates/) Hyper-V support for the Android emulator (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2018/05/08/hyper-v-android-emulator-support/) Xamarin Essentials Documentation (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/essentials/) Xamarin.Forms 3.0 (https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-forms-3-0-released/) Visual State Manager (https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/visual-state-manager) FlexLayout (https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/layouts/flex-layout) CSS (https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/styles/css) Right-to-left Localization (https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/app-fundamentals/localization/rtl) 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)