James Montemagno

Principal Manager, Tech PM, Developer Community

James Montemagno is a Principal Lead Program Manager for Developer Community 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 co-hosts the weekly development podcast Merge Conflict http://mergeconflict.fm.

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Round Launcher Icons in Android 7.1

January 30th, 2017
Circular launcher icons have become standard since the introduction of Android Nougat 7.1 and the new Pixel Launcher. Google has even introduced a new API enabling developers to specify a round launcher icon for launchers that support it, which is great if you have strong branding and only want a round icon to show up to match the launcher.

Enhanced Device Logging in Visual Studio

January 23rd, 2017
During development we often print out logs, warnings, and errors to the console to help with the debugging process. However, with the complexity of mobile operating systems and applications, we often need to see what's happening on the device or being logged by other parts of the operating system. This is where the iOS and Android device logs come in to help; they've been completely redesigned in the latest version of Xamarin for Visual Studio.

Planet Xamarin: Follow Your Favorite Community Bloggers

January 19th, 2017
Thee Xamarin development community is expanding and flourishing, with the Xamarin blog and Xamarin MVPs offering a plethora of knowledge for developers to soak up. As the community has continued to grow, so has the number of amazing developers blogging, recording, and podcasting about their libraries, apps, and experiences with Xamarin. In light of this, we've worked with community members to create a community blog aggregation platform that anyone can subscribe to via RSS. We call it Planet Xamarin and it's launching today!

Lightweight Ads for Android Apps

January 16th, 2017
The easiest way to start monetizing your mobile apps is to connect with advertisers and show relevant ads within them. It's as simple as displaying an ad, your users click on it, and you make money. Today we're going to look at a new SDK for Android, Ads Lite.

The Xamarin Show: Getting Started with MVVM

January 5th, 2017
Out of all of the architectural patterns, Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) has to be my favorite. When I started The Xamarin Show last year on Channel 9, I made sure to cover all of the different aspects of MVVM, as well as some amazing libraries that work with Xamarin, and I could think of no better way of starting 2017 than by highlighting the top Xamarin Show episodes that feature MVVM.

Simple and Intuitive App Shortcuts in Android 7.1

December 20th, 2016

Google Awareness API for Android: Query and React to Signals

December 7th, 2016

Optimizing Android Apps for Multi-Window Mode

December 2nd, 2016

Android Nougat Quick Setting Tiles

November 15th, 2016

Understanding Android’s Doze Functionality

October 12th, 2016