Xamarin Update with James Montemagno
Time for a Xamarin update - things are moving fast! Carl and Richard talk to James Montemagno, now a Microsoft employee since the Xamarin acquisition, about the on-going evolution of the Xamarin tools for building mobile and UWP applications. The conversation starts out with a comment about folks coming to mobile development for the first time: Less rocket science, more building data-over-forms apps for internal use. James dives into the expanding set of capabilities that Xamarin Forms has to make folks more productive building mobile apps that have to work across iOS, Android and UWP. And testing is getting better too - check it out!
Guests:
James Montemagno
James Montemagno is a Principal Program Manager on the Xamarin team at Microsoft. He has been a .NET developer since 2005 working in a wide range of industries including game development, printer software, and web services. Prior to becoming a Principal Program Manager, James was a professional mobile developer and has now been crafting apps since 2011 with Xamarin. In his spare time he is most likely cycling around Seattle or guzzling gallons of coffee at a local coffee shop. He can be found on Twitter @JamesMontemagno, blogs code regularly on his personal blog http://www.MotzCod.es, and on the weekly development podcast Merge Conflict at http://mergeconflict.fm.
Links:
- Best Android Apps https://www.androidpit.com/best-android-apps
- James' Blog http://motzcod.es/
- Xamarin Forms on GitHub https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms
- Xamarin Forms https://www.xamarin.com/forms
- Binding Native Views to XAML https://blog.xamarin.com/adding-bindable-native-views-directly-to-xaml/
- Xamarin Evolve 2016 Mobile App on GitHub https://github.com/xamarinhq/app-evolve
- Xamarin Test Cloud https://www.xamarin.com/test-cloud
- Calabash http://calaba.sh/