86: .NET Aspire

Writing Code in Agent mode? Nothing secret but definitely something you should check out if you haven't or just let us tell you about our experiences. How well does AI support our mobile endavours? Tune in and find out.

So, what is this about? Well, navigation within your apps! All things related to switching pages in your app, passing along data, MVVM frameworks and all the hot takes around that.

After reminiscing about the downtime spent over the holidays. Mark and Steven explore the new Plugin.Maui.Crosswind library from Steven. Heavily inspired by the Crosswind for web this awesome library by Steven allows you to get started with your new app ideas. But in style.

We talk about things ranging from old school Nintendo music to Mark, as per usual, wanting to nuke his machine by installing updates way too soon.

.NET Conf 2024 just happened and so many cool new things got announced and released. We take a look at .NET Conf and discuss some of our personal highlights.

Consistent as always, we definitely didn't skip out on an episode somewhere along the way. This episode fills in the blanks about various mobile offline data scenarios and what can be done to combat them.

Is the number of options you have when starting a mobile project overwhelming, or is it actually a good thing? In this episode, Steven and Mark discuss their thoughts and experiences on what to consider when beginning a new project, and whether it's worth investing all your time to learn every framework and option available for building mobile apps. After all, we need to be prepared, right?

Recorded before the summer break, released after the summer break. Steven and Mark discuss how releases can go horribly wrong. What are things to consider and general strategies. Also what can go wrong if you give a coupon to everyone in good faith and it still goes horribly wrong. Tune in for this opinionated pod on releases with a mobile focussed spin.

Some holidays were had. Steven gets some UI-related questions from Mark. And who knows, maybe by the end of it he can convince him to do more with UI!

.NET Aspire has been in preview for a while, but now that it is GA it is time to have a closer look - and talk. We discuss why you should care, what are some of the key components and it's extensibility.