Episode 56: Let's Reboot This

In this month's episode we reboot the podcast! Matt Soucoup, a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft joins James as host and we expand the topics to focus both on Xamarin mobile development and using Azure with your mobile apps. In this episode we recap the latest news in the Xamarin world including a marathon Twitch workshop, wondering Android build time improvements, the latest news in Xamarin.Forms, and recent announcements from Microsoft Connect();. We also cover the latest in Azure news, including DevOps, MSAL, and new Azure Cosmos DB pricing. All of this, and a whole lot more! Links: Get Some Free Azure! (https://azure.microsoft.com/free?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) Twitch Workshop: Build Your First Mobile App with C#, Xamarin, and the Cloud (https://blog.xamarin.com/twitch-workshop-build-your-first-mobile-app/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) Android build performance and reliability! (https://blog.xamarin.com/android-build-performance-reliability/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) Tabbing and Keyboard Navigation in Xamarin.Forms (https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/app-fundamentals/accessibility/keyboard?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) Image Button (https://https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/imagebutton?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) Span Class (https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/xamarin.forms.span?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) Decorate that Xamarin.Forms Label! (https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/text/label?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) Xamarin.Forms Editor (https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/text/editor?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) GlideX (https://github.com/jonathanpeppers/glidex) Learn more about Azure DevOps (https://azure.microsoft.com/services/devops/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) MSAL 2.0 - Authenticate all the things - now better! (https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-dotnet/wiki/msal-net-2-released) New Azure Cosmos DB shared database offer (https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/azure-cosmos-db-new-shared-database-offer-now-available/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) 2018 Connect Announcements for Xamarin (https://blog.xamarin.com/connect-2018-xamarin-announcements/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) Xamarin.Forms Shell (https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/app-fundamentals/shell?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) Xamarin.Forms Visual (https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/visual?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) Forget about the ListView and use the CollectionView! (https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/collectionview?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) James' Twitch - Implementing an iOS Checkbox for Xamarin.Forms (https://www.twitch.tv/videos/342827636) Xamarin.Essentials - it's in GA! (https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/essentials/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) and check out the code (https://github.com/xamarin/Essentials)! Super early preview release notes for Xamarin.Forms 4.0-pre! (https://developer.xamarin.com/releases/xamarin-forms/xamarin-forms-4.0/4.0.0-pre1/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) and while you're at it - give it a spin (https://www.nuget.org/packages/Xamarin.Forms/4.0.0.8055-pre1) in your apps! Get the Visual Studio 2019 Preview! (https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/preview/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) The machines are coming for our intellisense! VS Intellicode (https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/intellicode/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) Zeplin - speed up your design process (https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-forms-and-zeplin-speed-up-your-design-to-development-process/) Azure CLI (https://docs.microsoft.com/cli/azure/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (https://www.microsoft.com/ignite-the-tour/?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) Follow Us: * James: Twitter (https://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno), Blog (https://montemagno.com), GitHub (http://github.com/jamesmontemagno), Merge Conflict Podcast (http://mergeconflict.fm) * Matt: Twitter (https://twitter.com/codemillmatt), Blog (https://codemilltech.com), GitHub (https://github.com/codemillmatt)