Mobile Development

Developer Digest

Season 3

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, guests Alex Bezuska and Eric Lathrop talk about game development, the Ludem Dare, Game Jam and how the started Two Scoop Games. Later, Jen Looper joins the show to talk about gaming with the internet of things.

Developer Network

Game Development

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, guests Michael Crump and Jen Looper discuss mobile development and e-books. We learn what it's like to try to enter the app stores and what tools are needed to get started in mobile development.

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, Ed Charbeneau and guests David Giard, Sam Basu, and Michael Crump share their mobile devlopment experiences in a panel discussion. This episode was recorded with a live audience at Codestock 2015.

Mobile Panel Discussion

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, guest TJ VanToll talks about the inner-workings of NativeScript. NativeScript is an open source project that allows developers to write native iOS and Android applications using JavaScript, XML and CSS.

http://developer.telerik.com/featured/nativescript-inside-the-black-box/

Ed Charbeneau: Hello, and welcome to Eat Sleep Code, the official Telerik podcast. I'm your host, Ed Charbeneau, and with me today is TJ Van Toll.

TJ Van Toll: Hey, Ed.

EC: And today, we'll be talking about NativeScript. What's inside the black box? TJ is a developer advocate on the DevRel team with Telerik. TJ, you work primarily with the NativeScript team and the engineers to discuss what's going on with NativeScript, and bring NativeScript to the masses.

TT: Yeah, that's more or less right. I've been with Telerik for a bit over two years. And I've been involved with a few different Telerik products. So Kendo UI, the Telerik Platform. And I've been working with the NativeScript team for basically the greater part of this year.

EC: And NativeScript is a way of developing native applications using JavaScript as the primary development language. Correct?

TT: Yeah. I'd like to think of it basically as a way that you can build iOS and Android apps, and Windows Phone, Windows Universal apps, probably some time later this year or early next year. And it's a way of doing it, as you said, with JavaScript, but also some other technologies that developers, and particularly web developers with some languages and technology skill sets that these people may already have. So JavaScript, CSS, optionally typed script. There is a lightweight XML language that's very XAML like for building your actual UIs, NPM for package management. And even when it comes over to the native site, you can use things like CocoaPods for existing iOS frameworks, existing iOS dot framework files, Android frameworks or things like jars. So we try to bring in the most amount of skills that people may already have. And allow people to leverage as many existing tools as you can, all while building iOS and Android apps that a lot of people are looking to do today.

02:22 EC: So what's nice about this is we're building actual native applications from this product. We're not putting this in a web view like, let's say, Apache Cordova or something like that.

02:33 TT: Yes. So that the real single biggest differentiator between NativeScript and something like Cordova and some of these other technologies out there is that you are building a truly native app. And that means that you have a truly native user interface, which means the UI controls are gonna be the same thing that you would have available in iOS app that you built in Xcode or an Android app that you built in Visual Studio. And as such, you're basically gonna have native-like performance because you're using those native controls. Your app is gonna not only look like a native app, but also really perform like a native app as well.

Find the full transcript on Telerik Developer Network

http://developer.telerik.com/featured/nativescript-inside-the-black-box/

NativeScript Inside the Black

The new Telerik Developer Digest episodes are launched. Say hello to the new co-host Brian Rinaldi, and the state of the podcast is discussed. Brian and Ed cover the latest news in the development community including: Learning JavaScript by Doing, Build 2016, Polishing Xamarin Apps, using Foundation 6, and much more...

Developer Digest 1

Brian and Ed cover the latest news in the development community including: Microsoft, Angular 2, NativeScript, and a creative IoT project. Also, it's a big month for conferences, find out where we'll be.

Developer Digest 2

Brian and Ed cover the latest news in the development community including: Slackbots, security tips, spreadsheets, and NativeScript.

Developer Digest 3

Brian and Ed cover the latest news in the development community including: Bots-bots-bots, .NET Core RC2, Project.json, and NativeScript.

http://developer.telerik.com/content-types/podcast/developer-digest-4/

E: Hello and welcome to Eat Sleep Code, the official Telerik podcast. I’m your host, Ed Charbeneau, and with me today is my co-host, Brian Rinaldi. Brian, how’s it going?

B: Hello, it’s going great.

E: And today’s another Developer Digest episode, and we have some great articles that we collected from the web to share with you guys, and we post those on our Telerik Developer Network, and we’re gonna give you our commentary on those and then you’re welcome to go find those on our website, and read them or sign up for the newsletter. So, let’s kick things off with our first article by the always amazing Jen Looper. And she’s got an article called bots! bots! bots! And it’s pretty much about bots. So, like Microsoft, and Google, and Facebook, at their big keynotes this year, have all come out with their own bot frameworks. And it seems like 2016 is the year of the bot, right?

B: Absolutely, in fact, I talked to somebody… This was a PhoneGap Day earlier in the year. They were telling me before things had really taken off, they were like, “Bots are gonna be the thing.” I guess they were right. So, it just really seems like it’s taken off. Every company is releasing a bot platform, people are writing bots left and right. I think it’s really cool. I think the reason probably is it’s easy to interact with. It’s just natural to interact with a bot if it’s done well, right?

E: Yeah. In my opinion, I think some of the relativeness of bots and why they’re kind of making a comeback, and I say making a comeback, ’cause we’ve had bots in other chat platforms for years, but those things were always command driven, right? You always had to slash some command and then some parameters for that command and the bot may throw an emoji out or something. But now, we’ve got this machine learning from all the big software manufactures and it’s a lot easier to parse through natural language and figure out what people are talking about, what they’re discussing, and less reliance on the specific keywords to make a bot do something. You can kind of glean what the conversation’s about or what the question was, and the big companies like Microsoft, Google and Facebook, are making APIs to help facilitate that stuff.

B: Yeah, totally. And on that note, all of this blends together with not just bots that you type to, but also ones you speak to. Things like Amazon Echo or Google have their Google… I forgot what they called their one that they released at I/O, or announced there anyway [editor’s note: Google Home]. So, I actually have an article coming up about writing for the Echo. In that case, the commands are spoken. In the end, there’s really not a lot of difference because the commands are spoken but then translated into text that I then parse and respond to. And then I send back text and that text is just spoken. So, it’s effectively the same kind of thing as these bots, but I think you’ve noticed companies starting to add those voice assistants into just about every device that they have, and people like to use them. So, it’s one of those things that I’m always kind of skeptical of the next big thing, like wearables and VR and things like that. I’m a little skeptical that those are really gonna be quick to catch on. Wearables is obviously a market but it’s somewhat small. And VR still hasn’t proven that it’s necessarily useful to me. But this one, I think it’s so simple to interact with, and the ability to either just naturally type or naturally speak makes it just a no brainer.

Find the full transcript on Telerik Developer Network http://developer.telerik.com/content-types/podcast/developer-digest-4/

Developer Digest 4

Brian and Ed cover the latest news in the development community including: JavaScript, CQRS and REST, .NET CLI, and Open Source stats.

Season 2

Developer Digest 5

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, guest Nic Raboy talks about Couchbase, NoSQL databases and what it's like to work with data persistence in a polyglot world.

Couchbase and polyglots

Will 2017 be the year of .NET Core? Of course it will! I sat down with Scott Hunter (Director of Program Management for the .NET Platform) on the Eat Sleep Code podcast to talk about all things .NET. Scott shared plans for an exciting year of .NET development including the .NET Core 2 Wave, which includes the .NET Core 2.0 release along with .NET Standard 2.0, adoption strategies, and Visual Studio 2017 tooling.

00:27 EC: Scott is the Director of Program Management for the Dot NET platform. This includes the Dot NET framework, Dot NET core and the managed languages. Scott, I’m glad to have you on the show today.

00:39 SH: Yeah, I’m glad to be here. Looking forward to chatting about Dot NET with you.

00:45 EC: Yeah. It’s a great way to kick off 2017, this being the first show of the year for me, appreciate you making time to do this, and we’ve got a lot of stuff going on in this new year with Dot NET, so this is a great topic.

01:00 SH: Yeah, it’s been… I joined Microsoft in 2007. I was a web developer, I guess is the best way to describe it. So, I was a web developer and I joined in 2007, and joined the ASP.NET team. And that was interesting because, as an external person, I walked in, going, “Hey, this ASP NET thing is gonna be this huge team.” And I remember walking in and I realized, “Oh my God. We only have like 12 developers, and three or four PMs,” and we had support staff as well. So the whole team was under 30 in size when I joined in 2007, and it’s… Externally, I think I was just imagining Microsoft, this huge company, that ASP NET was gonna be this massive team. But it was a great team because even though it was a small team, we got a lot of crap done because we… Everybody was super effective and everybody loved the platform, and I think we did more with a smaller group of folks than people would ever imagine. And a lot of things that we started back then in 2007 are the things that you see in Dot NET all up today. The ASP NET team was one of the first teams… I was gonna say in 2008, we started open sourcing ASP NET MVC for the first time, and then, by 2012, we had actually open-sourced the platform, all of the ASP NET platform by then. And now, look at Dot NET today, and we’ve got Dot NET core, and the entire Dot NET framework is open source out there. So, it was… Some of those things we did back in those days were the seeds that have grown and built a platform today. 

Continue reading at http://developer.telerik.com/topics/net/the-net-core-2-wave/

Progress

The .NET Core 2 Wave with Scott Hunter

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, Eric Bishard drops by to talk about the future of energy, transportation, and how software will transform the products we use every day.

Future Tech Fanboys

Ed and Brian cover the latest news in the development community including: Kendo UI's Birthday, Angular Observeables, Push Notifications, and NativeScript

Developer Digest Web and Mobile

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code guest Trey Stout shares his story about the challenges of utilizing handwriting in software and what problems handwriting solves for users. We discuss the technology stack behind Handwriting.io and ScribbleChat, as well as the engineering involved in these products.

Getting Personal with Handwriting

Ed and Brian cover the latest news in the development community including: Micro packages, Angular 4 launches, and is Microsoft writing its own Automapper alternative.

Developer Digest Micro Packages Angular 4 and Object Mapper

Ed and Brian cover the latest news in the development community including: Microsoft ends it's quest to include an object mapper. We'll look at all the ways you can build Native Mobile applications that look professional. Your favorite text editors battle it out for a place in our hearts. And JavaScript Dominates the Stack Overflow Developer survey.

01:00 EC: Let me start off with a quick update about our previous shows. We covered some issues where Microsoft was trying to come up with their own object-mapper utility to bundle with '.NET MVC and that would have been probably '.NETs' Core MVC. And most of you guys out there that build those type of apps are probably already using something called AutoMapper, so I invited Jimmy Bogard on the show to give his point of view on what exactly was Microsoft trying to accomplish with this and it turned out to be a really good show focused on app security and talking about what Microsoft's idea was. Microsoft actually decided to back off the idea and they're kinda closed on the issue for now, so it looks like they've kinda left things as is. The community provided a solution for the problem and they're just gonna leave it that way for the time being. So that discussion is over with anyway, but it made for some great content. If you wanna go back and listen to Jimmy on the show, that was last week's podcast. Like I said, there are some really great points in there about security, if you haven't caught it already.

02:19 EC: So on Developer Digest shows, we go through our weekly or bi-weekly newsletter and cover some of the topics that were discussed in the newsletter. Some of the articles we highlighted in the newsletter and just kinda give our opinions on what the content was like in those articles and our experience. So first up we have "Creating Your First Native Mobile App With Visual Studio." So this is an article by... Or an article series rather, by Rob Lawler, one of our developer advocates here and he's kinda showing the ins and outs of creating a native mobile application in Visual Studio using NativeScript.

03:08 BR: Yeah. It's a good series, it's pretty detailed. He has four parts of it, all of which are pretty extensive. So obviously, he kind of talks about other options, being Xamarin being the obvious choice if you're a Visual Studio developer, but he explains why you might wanna consider NativeScript and goes into detail on how to actually build an app from the ground up and I loved his idea for an app. It's a Bill Murray app...

Find out more at http://developer.telerik.com/content-types/podcast/developer-digest-automapper-update-native-mobile-editors-javascript-dominates/

Developer Digest Automapper Update, Native Mobile, Editors And JavaScript Dominates

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Developer Digest Automapper Update, Native Mobile, Editors And JavaScript Dominates

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