Xamarin Essentials with James Montemagno
Xamarin keeps evolving - are you using the latest? Carl and Richard talk to James Montemagno about his on-going work making life easier for Xamarin developers. The conversation starts out referencing a comment from a listener about the code-compile-deploy time and what it takes to get going faster. James discusses the work Xamarin has done working with the different emulators out there to make things go faster and work in more configurations. And then it's on to Xamarin Essentials - combining all your favorite Xamarin plugins into one easy-to-install-and-manage package!
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:
- Postman http://getpostman.com
- Xamarin https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/xamarin/
- Xamarin Live Player https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/tools/live-player/
- iOS Simulator https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/tools/ios-simulator
- Mac in Cloud https://www.macincloud.com/
- Xamarin Components https://github.com/xamarin/XamarinComponents
- Xamarin Essentials https://github.com/xamarin/essentials
- Xamarin Platform Specifics https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/platform/platform-specifics/