Merge Conflict

James has finally discovered the magic of Bluetooth and is on an adventure of building his own app. On top of that he is investigating the wonderful world of IoT and Bluetooth combined!

December surprise from Apple with some brand-new products and services dropping just in time for the holidays. Frank and James take a quick dip into Apple's new headphones, before heading into the world of home fitness and possibilities for app developers

No, for real, we are completely done with the M1. No M1 talk here at all!

It is time for lightning topics!!! We are here to break down 6 topics quick! We look at testing iOS apps on the M1 chip, Apple's new raise for all app developers, using C# 9 in Xamarin apps, top level programs, visual basic, and The Queen's Gambit!

The time has come! We can finally start shipping and selling iOS apps on macOS devices powered by Apple M1 Silicon! We discuss all the pros and cons and things you probably didn't think you should be considering.

This last week was crazy! .NET Conf 2020, .NET 5, Visual Studio 16.8, XAML Hot Reload 2.0, Xbox Series S/X launch, Apple M1 Events, and so much more!

Let's talk about databases! SQLite, No-SQL, LiteDB, CoreData, and so much more! All the options!

We are tweaking and tuning our apps past the beta summer with small fun quirks from Apple and Google.

You heard it! Frank Got Catalyst for Xamarin.iOS Working!

That is right, we are back with another full breakdown of a lovely apple event. This time it is the Apple Homepod Mini and iPhone 12 event.

How to app updates work, what do you need to know, migrate, and hook into? Or do you need to at all?

Drone cameras, 3d printing with pens, google tvs, and so much more!

Now back to our normally scheduled lightning topics with awesome listener suggestions including Swift on Windows, .NET Maui, Database selection, clean code, iOS 14, and more.

We are back with a full breakdown of last week's exciting Apple event. We break down all of the highlights around the new Apple Watch Series 6, watchOS 7, Apple Fitness+, Apple One, and the New iPad Air.

Is it possible for us to talk about a new floating point time in .NET for 30 minutes and make it super fun? Find out!

The time has finally come! We talk about our favorite new web framework, Blazor!

Frank stands up against the entities of ASP.NET Core's built-in beautiful identity service powered by Entity Framework to do his own thing! How does it turn out? Tune in!

Everything you ever wanted to know or didn't think you wanted to know about GUIDs aka UUIDs.

We are back to machine learning and artificial learning, taking a look at the latest and greatest in Core ML 4.

After 11 years James has moved from Android based phones to iPhone running iOS. Let's talk about the good, bad, and ugly of the transition.

Is GPT-3 set to take over the world? Find out on this week's podcast!

It is all in the name - Model-View-Update (MVU) - What, Why, How

Fit & Finish! That is our topic this week and try to understand what is in Frank's way of shipping his app.

Beta summers, favorite C# 9 features, best new cross-platform app frameworks, and USB-C on this week's lightning topics!

Work from home, work from office, work from coffee shop.... we discuss.

Frank lost his phone, James bought an iPhone, and WWDC is over!

We are off to WWDC 2020! Or... watching the keynote from our house in quarantine. We break down all of the latest apple announcements from WWDC including macOS 11, iOS 14, tvOS 14, and watchOS 7!

Frank is off with another #holidayhack... in June with his BuildLight project!

In episode 85 of running a business and building apps we discuss ads! Why your app and website should have them or maybe not and if so how to make money.

When the app store first started paid apps were the standard, but now it is all about freemium and subscriptions. James walks through his latest dilemma with his Animal Crossing app and how he tried to figure out if he could profit from a freemium model.

Sometimes life gets in the way and it takes a bit too long to update that OSS project. A few lessons learned from Frank on SQLite-net and some insight from James on his plethora of projects.

So you want to develop apps.... or sell something... or do anything... you should looking starting an LLC or some sort of business. James and Frank walk you through their journey and James' recent battle with Apple.

James struggles to release his app and walks through all of his fears while Frank tries to talk him into just clicking the button!

200 Episodes and still going! Thanks to all of our amazing listeners that have been with us from the beginning and the ones that are joining for the first pod!

Frank is having a debate on whether he should update iCircuit to the latest bits or rewrite the apps with Xamarin.Forms. We discuss his options and James throws a bunch of crazy ideas his way.

Have you ever thought of creating your own social network? How about just having a friend system in your app? How would you implement it? How would you handle authentication? How would it all work? We discuss as James tries to implement it in his latest a

Launching an app, you need a website, but you are an app developer. What to do?

Frank's family enters the world of video conferencing, and so do we! We break down all the options and spiral into random topics because that is our lives now.

We dive back into machine learning with more automagical ML. James tries to pull off some sentiment analysis for his app and we discuss a few options.

It has finally happened! The iPad now has a trackpad and a mouse cursor!!! We discuss for fun!

Architecture, Data Binding, MVVM, MVC, MVU, Animations, ALL THE THINGS! It is all messy!

Frank has entered the world of live streaming code!

It is lightning rounds this week on Merge Conflict!!! YAML, Git GUI, Blazor, AndroidX, .NET 5, and more!

Frank decided to do his holiday hack in mid-February and build an entire app in a weekend. What is it? What was his inspiration? How did he build it? How is he distributing and promoting it? We discuss on this weeks pod.

It is all things dual-screen with Windows 10x, Surface Neo, and Surface Duo. We take a look at some of the awesome announcements from the last week and what it means for Xamarin developers.

When we aren't programming we pretend to be electricians.

Frank goes deep on Jupyter Notebooks and James is oh so confused, but hey he got to fly some drones.

Everything is HOT! XAML Hot Reload, Hot Restart, Hot UI, Hot Hot, and the Hottest of the Hot and we discuss it all!

We are back talking about designing beautiful applications that span both light and dark modes. While maybe he doesn't hate dark mode, he has great tips and tricks that we discuss to make your app pop.

2D, 3D, VR, MR, all the things with SceneKit! Frank talks about his adventures into creating a full 3D application that IS NOT A GAME with SceneKit!