Xamarin & Azure - BFF, Really?

Building native applications across multiple platforms is hard. iOS requires knowledge of Xcode, the iOS SDK and Objective-C or Swift. Android requires Eclipse Android Studio, the Android SDK and Java. The Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform requires Visual Studio, C# and the UWP/WinRT SDK. Are we really expected to learn all of this? You can take the HTML5 & Cordova route, but not all apps should be built using a hybrid approach. If you want to create a truly competitive app with a premium experience, you’ll need to go native. Fortunately, there is a way you can share a lot of your code across mobile platforms and do so using the C# language you already know and love. Xamarin is a powerful toolset that allows developers to write native Android and iOS apps using C#, thanks to the Mono framework – an Open Source project that brings the C# language and .NET to other platforms. This session explores how you can build cross-platform applications for iOS, Android, and Windows 10 using C#. You’ll learn how to get started with a sample cross-platform solution, which tools you can use, how to design a proper user interface for each platform and how to structure your projects for maximum code reuse. We’ll also look at how you can share UI code with Xamarin.Forms. Native mobile development doesn’t have to be so hard. Come learn how your .NET skills can be transformed for true cross-platform development.

This document outlines the history and growth of Xamarin from 2001 to 2016. Some key points include: - Xamarin was founded in 2011 and allows developers to build native mobile apps for Android, iOS, and Mac using C# and shared code. - Xamarin has grown from 200,000 developers in 2012 to over 1.1 million developers in 2016 with support for partnerships with Microsoft, IBM, and other companies. - Xamarin products have expanded from the initial Xamarin.iOS in 2011 to also include Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.Mac, and Xamarin.Forms for building cross-platform user interfaces with shared code.

Presented at HoustonJS http://www.meetup.com/houston-js/events/203757092/ On the fence about building hybrid apps? Let me convince you to take the leap. I’ll discuss the process we use at Poetic Systems and demonstrate with a live coding example.

Bay.NET user group presentation (Apr-15) on building apps for wearable platform using C#. Samples on https://github.com/conceptdev/xamarin-samples/tree/master/watch-and-wear

A presentation that Cam Barrie, James Brett and myself gave at Agile Australia 2013. The talk is about ways of building mobile apps that allow for the change and evolution you should expect when building exploratory mobile apps, and examples of the web and native code divide.

Presentation from Create Hybrid Mobile Application in 1 hour Webinar. This webinar was conducted by Telerik evangelist Dhananjay Kumar (debug_mode) .

This document is an introduction to Microsoft's Cognitive Services presented by Matthew Soucoup. It describes several Cognitive Services APIs including Computer Vision, which can analyze, describe and tag images; Text Translation, which can translate text between languages; and Emotion API, which can detect emotions in photos. The document provides URLs and parameters for calling the Computer Vision and Text Translation APIs and describes what type of data they return.

This document provides 10 tips for developing effective mobile web applications: 1) Understand the mobile landscape and technologies; 2) Determine essential content and use cases; 3) Optimize the viewport for mobile screens; 4) Use progressive enhancement; 5) Leverage HTML5 semantics; 6) Utilize CSS3 features; 7) Incorporate AJAX and frameworks; 8) Account for touch gestures; 9) Optimize images; and 10) Support offline usage.

This document discusses evolving mobile architectures and approaches to building mobile applications. It covers building apps for multiple platforms, hybrid native-web architectures, mobile backend systems, and testing hybrid apps. Key points include separating presentation from logic, choosing technologies based on features, and testing at multiple levels including UI, integration, and units. An approach of evolving designs over time based on measuring outcomes is recommended over locking into only native or only web approaches.

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Microsoft loves Android developers. We have a lot of tools for them. This session presents a quick overview of these tools including cross-platform development in C# and Visual Studio thanks to Xamarin, Azure Mobile Services, the Windows Bridge for Android (aka "Project Astoria"), Hockeyapp analytics, Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova, and the Visual Studio Emulator for Android. We'll then dive deeper into the latter, covering drag & drop installation of apps, debugging apps from any ADB-compatible IDE, emulating hardware like GPS, cameras, accelerometers, battery, network radios, storage cards and more.