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Welcome to the Nintendo Dispatch Podcast

When I'm not podcasting [https://montemagno.com/podcasts/]... I am podcasting [https://montemagno.com/podcasts/]! I mean I love it so much that I started a full podcast network, soundbite.fm [https://soundbite.fm], that is now filled with wonderful podcasts and podcasters. You may be used to me talking about programming and technology, but I have always had a passion for video games and I am a huge Nintendo fan. I can't help myself! Ever since the original NES I was all in and have owned…

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Monitoring Android Activity Lifecycle Events: Return of Current Activity Plugin

It has been nearly two and a half years since I wrote about how to easily get access to the current Android Activity [https://montemagno.com/access-the-current-android-activity-from-anywhere/] with just a few lines of code. This code led to the creation of my Current Activity Plugin [https://github.com/jamesmontemagno/CurrentActivityPlugin] for Xamarin.Android apps and library creators to easily get access to the current Activity. Since then it has been the core of many of my plugins and has bee…

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Podcast Equipment, Accessories, Setup, and Recording Guide

In case you didn't know I co-host some pretty excellent podcasts [https://montemagno.com/podcasts] (if I do say so myself) that you should totally subscribe to. Including Merge Conflict [http://mergeconflict.fm] where I talk code and tech with the one and only Frank Krueger and then there is Coffeehouse Blunder [http://blunders.fm] where I chat with my good friend and Chess IM Daniel Rensch about chess, coffee, and life. On top of that I even recently started a podcast network [http://soundb…

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The $300 iPad: Nearly The Perfect Learning Tool

Apple on Tuesday had a pretty awesome event called "Apple + Education [https://www.apple.com/apple-events/march-2018/]" where they revealed a brand new $300 iPad for students. In addition to this they announced some really great software for students/teachers and a new API called ClassKit for developers to help gamify the classroom and teaching. Frank and I were so excited that we recorded a Special Edition of Merge Conflict [http://www.mergeconflict.fm/special-edition-apple-education-…

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Push Notification Options for Mobile Apps

My good friend Andrew [https://twitter.com/andrew_hoefling] and I recently had a Twitter conversation on what is the best route to take when implementing push notifications in your mobile applications. If you do a quick search there are a lot of options out there and it can be tricky to figure out the best route to take, but having implemented push notifications in several applications I can tell you there are really only two options you need to consider. How Push Notifications Work The reason…

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VS App Center Custom Build Scripts for Production Apps

A few weeks ago I introduced my Mobile App Tasks for VSTS [https://montemagno.com/introducing-vsts-mobile-build-tasks-extension/] to help developers streamline their build and release pipeline for iOS and Android apps. This collection of tasks contains things that almost every app needs at some point. This includes changing app identifiers or names and most importantly bumping version codes and names. So far, feedback of these tasks has been great: The number one question I get is how would y…

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New Plugin for Xamarin & Multi-Target Templates for Visual Studio 2017

It is 2018 and I am all in on Multi-Target projects for building libraries and plugins. I love them so much that I convinced Frank to record a full episode of Merge Conflict [http://www.mergeconflict.fm/85] on why this whole thing is so absolutely amazing. I have slowly been converting all of my plugins over to mutli-targeted projects, which has reduced some of the solutions from 15 project down to 1!!! There is a bit of tiny setup required for multi-targeting and for it to automatically pu…

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Getting Started with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms Q&A

Every day when I open my inbox or look on GitHub there is always a question or ten for me to answer. I recently got a nice long email from Clifton with a lot of questions and I thought that instead of emailing him back directly that I should write up a blog post with all of my answers for the world to enjoy and add some common questions I get all the time. Clifton wrote in and said he is investigating cross-platform development with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms as it is one unified application p…

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Welcome to the Nintendo Dispatch Podcast

Monitoring Android Activity Lifecycle Events: Return of Current Activity Plugin

Podcast Equipment, Accessories, Setup, and Recording Guide

The $300 iPad: Nearly The Perfect Learning Tool

Push Notification Options for Mobile Apps

VS App Center Custom Build Scripts for Production Apps

New Plugin for Xamarin & Multi-Target Templates for Visual Studio 2017

Getting Started with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms Q&A

James Montemagno

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