Xamarin Development Gets Faster with James Montemagno
Mobile development continues to evolve in the Xamarin world! Carl and Richard talk to James Montemagno about the latest features coming out of the Xamarin team to make developing cross-platform native applications faster and easier. James digs into the new Xamarin Live tools that show your Xamarin app on your device with edit-and-continue capabilities. As you modify your Xamarin Forms code, the changes are immediately reflected in the device. This shortens the code-deploy-debug cycle so you can get more done in less time. The conversation also turns to XAML Standard and the challenges around bringing UWP, WPF and Xamarin Forms teams together to a common specification. James wraps up with a discussion on .NET embedding, letting you put your favorite .NET code into libraries that can be consumed by Objective-C, Swift and Java codebases!
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:
- Obesity Code Podcast http://obesitycodepodcast.com/
- Calendly https://calendly.com/
- Prism https://github.com/PrismLibrary/Prism
- Xamarin https://www.xamarin.com/
- Xamarin Live https://www.xamarin.com/live
- Ooui http://ooui.mecha.parts/
- Monkey Cache https://github.com/jamesmontemagno/monkey-cache
- XAML Standard https://github.com/Microsoft/xaml-standard
- Samsung Tizen https://www.tizen.org/
- .NET Embedding https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/dotnet-embedding/
- James' Blog https://montemagno.com/