In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, James Montemagno and Pierce Boggan cover the latest news for mobile developers from Microsoft Connect(); 2017, including updates to Xamarin.Forms, the Live Player, Visual Studio 2017, and Visual Studio for Mac.
4:15 .NET Standard comes to File -> New -> Xamarin.Forms App
9:30 What's new in the Xamarin Live Player - .NET Standard support, SkiaSharp support, and updates to onboarding
13:00 Visual Studio Team Services gets even more awesome - hosted macOS agents and secure files
16:00 How to catch up on Connect(); announcements
18:25 Xamarin.Forms 2.5 - Native Forms, layout compression, iOS 11, improved macOS desktop support
25:30 Sunsetting Xamarin Components - what you need to know
28:00 What's new in Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac for mobile developers
33:15 Help us make Xamarin faster in Visual Studio 2017
34:10 Library/Tool/Product of the Week
Show Links:
.NET Standard comes to File -> New -> Xamarin.Forms (https://blog.xamarin.com/net-standard-comes-xamarin-forms-project-templates/)
Streamlined Testflight Registration with Fastlane (https://montemagno.com/streamlined-testflight-registration-with-fastlane/)
Simplified App Signing with Secure Files in VSTS (https://blog.xamarin.com/simplified-app-signing-secure-files-visual-studio-team-services/)
Microsoft Connect(); Sessions for Xamarin Developers (https://blog.xamarin.com/microsoft-connect-2017-sessions-xamarin-developers/)
Three Big Things to Explore in Xamarin.Forms 2.5.0 (https://blog.xamarin.com/3-big-things-explore-xamarin-forms-2-5-0-pre-release/)
Making iOS 11 Even Easier with Xamarin.Forms (https://blog.xamarin.com/making-ios-11-even-easier-xamarin-forms/)
Sunsetting the Component Store (https://blog.xamarin.com/hello-nuget-new-home-xamarin-components/)
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 Preview Release Notes (https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/preview/)
Visual Studio for Mac version 15.5 Preview Release Notes (https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/releasenotes/vs2017-mac-preview-relnotes)
Help us make Xamarin faster in Visual Studio 2017 (https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/108762/help-us-make-xamarin-faster-in-visual-studio-2017)
AppCenter.ms (https://appcenter.ms/)
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