{"id":46170,"date":"2020-01-17T09:05:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T17:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/?p=46170"},"modified":"2020-01-17T07:22:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T15:22:13","slug":"xamarin-podcast-new-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/xamarin-podcast-new-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Xamarin Podcast: It&#8217;s a Brand New Decade!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping up with the latest in .NET, C#, Xamarin, and Azure is easier than ever. Co-hosts <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/codemillmatt\">Matt Soucoup<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jamesmontemagno\">James Montemagno<\/a> cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/podcast-designing-mobile-apps\/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast69-xamblog-masoucou\">designing mobile apps<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/podcast-identity-management-in-mobile-apps\/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast69-xamblog-masoucou\">identity management<\/a>. It&#8217;s a new decade, and in this inaugural pod of the roaring 20s, James and Matt cover some holidays hacks, and new features of Xamarin.Essentials!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-39202\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/03\/podcast-2.png\" alt=\"Xamarin Podcast: It's a Brand New Decade\" width=\"200\" \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>A New Decade Means&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/essentials\/release-notes\/1.4?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast69-xamblog-masoucou\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">brand new version of Xamarin.Essentials<\/a>! Well, a brand new pre-release of Xamarin.Essentials &#8211; and this one brings some sweet goodness to detect whether your users&#8217; device is running a dark theme or not. And a smoking permissions API!<\/p>\n<p>The holiday season just wrapped up, so James and Matt also talk about their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/529844594\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">holiday hacks<\/a>. And did you see the <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/santa-talk-xamarin-challenge\/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast69-xamblog-masoucou\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Talk Challenge<\/a> that was run in December (of the last decade)? Matt gives you the rundown of some very cool submissions where people created intelligent serverless Xamarin applications harnessing the power of Azure!<\/p>\n<p>James and Matt also run down the latest in Xamarin news, including new articles on getting the most out of <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/tips-tricks-xaml-hot-reload\/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast69-podcast-masoucou\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">XAML Hot Reload<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/android-app-bundle\/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast69-xamblog-masoucou\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Android App Bundles<\/a>, and the best <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/top-xamarin-videos-2019\/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast69-xamblog-masoucou\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">videos<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/top-xamarin-blog-posts-2019\/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast69-xamblog-masoucou\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">blog posts<\/a> of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Matt puts his head in the clouds to talk about the latest on <a href=\"http:\/\/(https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Shows\/The-Cloud-Native-Show\/Building-Microservices-with-gRPC-and-NET?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast69-xamblog-masoucou\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">gRPC<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Shows\/On-NET\/Azure-Service-Bus-from-the-ground-up?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast69-xamblog-masoucou\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Azure Service Bus<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<p>Plus the Azure Service of the Month and the Pick of the Pod!<\/p>\n<p>As always, get yourself some <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/free?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast69-xamblog-masoucou\">free Azure here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, last but not least&#8230; the Pick of the Pod!! Be sure to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.xamarinpodcast.com\/69\">download this episode<\/a>\u00a0from your favorite podcast app.<\/p>\n<h3>Office Hours<\/h3>\n<p>Have something on your mind? Office Hours are back! <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/office-hours\">Book some time with Matt<\/a> to discuss any cloud or mobile dev topic during Office Hours.<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/fireside.fm\/player\/v2\/ce4Mj65y+kwLkLbr4?theme=dark\" width=\"740\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Subscribe or Download Today<\/h2>\n<p>Join your co-hosts <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/codemillmatt\">Matt Soucoup<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jamesmontemagno\">James Montemagno<\/a> to discuss the latest and greatest in Android, Xamarin, and cloud development. Get all the updates about Xamarin.Forms, recent features, and future releases in a jiffy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xamarinpodcast.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe to the Xamarin Podcast<\/a> on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play Music, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a new decade, and in this inaugural pod of the roaring 20s, James and Matt cover some holidays hacks, and the brand new version of Xamarin.Essentials!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":44811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7242,1],"tags":[7425,867,7700,28,7243,22,6690,24,6604],"class_list":["post-46170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-xamarin","tag-android-app-bundle","tag-azure","tag-holiday","tag-office-hours","tag-partly-cloudy","tag-podcasts","tag-xamarin-challenge","tag-xamarin-essentials","tag-xaml-hot-reload"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>It\u2019s a new decade, and in this inaugural pod of the roaring 20s, James and Matt cover some holidays hacks, and the brand new version of Xamarin.Essentials!<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}