Jon Dick
Co-Host of Gone Mobile
Jon Dick has hosted 74 Episodes.
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Gone Mobile 44: Fluxing Up Your Xamarin Apps with Alex Dunn
March 6th, 2017 | 38 mins 15 secs
The Flux architectural pattern has become increasingly common in front-end development, but did you know it's also applicable to mobile apps as well? In this episode we talk to Alex Dunn about Flux, what it is, why it's useful, and his experiences applying it to his Xamarin applications.
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Gone Mobile 43: Enhance your IDE with MFractor from Matthew Robbins
January 23rd, 2017 | 39 mins 2 secs
Ever wish you could automate more simple tasks in Xamarin Studio or Visual Studio for Mac? Matthew Robbins' MFractor Addin may be exactly what you're looking for with several enhancements designed to speed up the Xamarin.Forms developer experience.
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Gone Mobile 42: Surviving The App Store with Amir Rajan
January 12th, 2017 | 59 mins 42 secs
The App Store is a crazy place, so why not learn the ins and outs from someone who has been through it all? In this episode we sit down with Amir Rajan, developer of the hit game A Dark Room, to talk through his experiences building a successful game, backed by a mountain of data around metrics, revenue, and more.
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Gone Mobile 41: Mobile Game Development and CocosSharp with Brent Edwards
December 29th, 2016 | 54 mins 22 secs
Interested in trying out some mobile game development but aren't sure where to start? In this episode we talk to Brent Edwards about how he got started, and how CocosSharp makes it easy to dive in and start creating the next big hit game!
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Gone Mobile 40: Deep Linking and Branch with Sahil Verma
December 5th, 2016 | 39 mins 46 secs
Deep linking is a great way to help provide engaging experiences for your users, but how do you get started? What can you actually do with deep links? In this episode we talk to Sahil Verma about deep linking and what Branch is doing to help app developers deliver personalized experience for their users.
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Gone Mobile 39: Serverless and Azure Functions with Donna Malayeri and Fabio Cavalcante
September 14th, 2016 | 1 hr 16 secs
Want to know what this whole serverless thing is about? Learn all about it and what you can do with Azure Functions from Donna Malayeri and Fabio Cavalcante!
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Gone Mobile 38: Microsoft Graph API with Simon Jager
August 31st, 2016 | 42 mins 54 secs
In this episode we learn all about the Microsoft Graph API from Simon Jager, and how you can build your mobile apps on top of its offerings.
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Gone Mobile 37: Hybrid Xamarin Apps with Drew Colthorp and Shawn Anderson
July 25th, 2016 | 55 mins 41 secs
Hybrid apps with Xamarin? You bet! In this episode we're joined by Drew Colthorp and Shawn Anderson to talk about why and how they converted their hybrid app, written in Ember, from Cordova to Xamarin.
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Gone Mobile 36: Android Performance Tuning with Rabeb Othmani
July 12th, 2016 | 32 mins 4 secs
In this episode we're joined by Rabeb Othmani to talk about Android Performance Tuning
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Gone Mobile 35: Mobile Testing with Alexandra Marin
July 5th, 2016 | 30 mins 2 secs
In this episode we're joined by Alexandra Marin to talk about Behavior Driven Development for Xamarin Developers
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Gone Mobile 34: Raygun Pulse with John-Daniel Trask
June 14th, 2016 | 50 mins 23 secs
In this episode we're joined by John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, to talk about Pulse - their Real User Monitoring solution for web and mobile apps.
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Gone Mobile 33: Realm with Tim Anglade and Kristian Dupont
June 1st, 2016 | 59 mins 12 secs
In this episode we're joined by Tim Anglade and Kristian Dupont from Realm, a mobile-focused database solution that recently launched support for Xamarin.
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Gone Mobile 32: Bitrise with Barnabas Birmacher and Daniel Balla
April 19th, 2016 | 41 mins 51 secs
In this episode we're joined by Barnabas Birmacher and Daniel Balla to talk about their continunous integration solution for mobile apps. Looking to get started adding CI for your apps? Listen in to find out how!
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Gone Mobile 31: FreshMvvm with Michael Ridland
March 23rd, 2016 | 34 mins 18 secs
In this episode we talk to Michael Ridland about his experiences as a Xamarin consultant, and dig into his new MVVM framework made specifically for Xamarin Forms called FreshMvvm!
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Gone Mobile 30: Hexagonal App Architecture with Chris Williams
February 16th, 2016 | 37 mins 59 secs
In this episode we talk to Chris Williams about hexagonal architectures and how it applies to building cross-platform mobile apps. We dig into what the architecture tries to achieve, the benefits you get from approaching software design with it in mind, and how you might already be doing it without even knowing it!
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Gone Mobile 28: Behind the Scenes of Xamarin.Forms with Jason Smith
August 26th, 2015 | 57 mins 1 sec
In this episode we're talking about Xamarin.Forms again, but this time around it's a bit different. We're joined once again by Jason Smith, lead developer of Xamarin.Forms, to take a look behind the scenes of Xamarin.Forms. We get into where it came from, inspirations, design decisions, triumps, mistakes, and more. Join us for this peek behind the curtain of creating the Xamarin.Forms framework!