Episode 73: Essentials 1.6, Forms 4.6 and Contact Tracing

Hope everybody is staying healthy! We have lots of news and new releases to cover this month for you! Xamarin.Essentials and Xamarin.Forms have new releases. And the Xamarin engineering team was hard at work to get a cross-platform API out for the new contact tracing API from Apple and Google. James and Matt also talk about //Build, a couple of cool new case studies, and recap the wackiness of the Crazy Cognitive Service Combo Challenge! And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod! Show Notes Latest Releases Xamarin.Essentials 1.6 is on the loose (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-essentials-now-with-permissions-app-theme-authentication?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast73-podcast-masoucou) Xamarin.Forms 4.6 brand new features (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms-4-6?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast73-podcast-masoucou) Find out about the new Contact Tracing API (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/contact-tracing-exposure-notification-api?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast73-podcast-masoucou) Events Register for //Build now! (https://register.build.microsoft.com/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast73-podcast-masoucou) Xamarin News Crazy Cognitive Services Combo Challenge Wrap-Up (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/cognitive-services-xamarin-challenge?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast73-podcast-masoucou) Volotea + PGS Software Case Study (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/volotea-pgs-software-xamarin-showcase/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast73-podcast-masoucou) Changesets with Azure SQL (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/azure-sql-change-tracking-data-sync/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast73-podcast-masoucou) Magic Gradients ... with animated gradients! (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/magic-gradients-xamarinforms/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast73-podcast-masoucou) Azure News Brokered Auth in MSAL.NET (https://developer.microsoft.com/identity/blogs/announcing-xamarin-broker-support-in-msal-net-4-9-0/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast73-podcast-masoucou) Azure Cosmos DB and Minecraft World Case Study (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/minecraft-earth-and-azure-cosmos-db-part-1-extending-minecraft-into-our-real-world/) Azure Service of the Month Azure Maps (https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-maps/about-azure-maps?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast73-podcast-masoucou) Pick of the Pod! Matt - Material Frame with Blur (https://www.sharpnado.com/materialframe-blur) James - Azure Table Storage (https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/storage/tables/table-storage-overview?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast73-podcast-masoucou) As always, get yourself some free Azure here (https://azure.microsoft.com/free?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast73-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)