Xamarin 3rd Birthday Meetup: Starting cross platform development with Xamarin 3

Xamarin 3rd Birthday Meetup: Starting cross platform development with Xamarin 3 - setting up a project, its architecture and a simple app.

An introduction to using Xamarin for a cross platform development. This presentation will demonstrate how to set up, structure and architect a Xamarin project for cross platform development, and demonstrate creating a simple cross platform app using features such as Portable Code Libraries (PCLs), Shared Libraries, and Xamarin Forms. Come and learn how to get a cross platform project started!

We want to cover a lot of really useful, real world, information for you, so will start promptly!

At the conclusion of the presentation, attendees should understand how to start their own cross platform development using Xamarin.

We are hoping to stream the presentation live via Google Hangouts On Air for those who can't attend in person and make the recording available after the event.

Food and beverages will be provided.

Planned agenda:

17.45 Networking

18.30 Presentation - Mike Stonis, EightBot

20.00 Networking

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Xamarin is a mono framework for iOS and Android that includes C# wrappers for native API bindings. This allows developers to develop native iOS and Android apps in C# using the mono (.Net) framework. Xamarin currently supports all features of .Net 4.5.1, and all API's in iOS7.1 and Android API level 19. iOS8 Beta APIs is suported for registered iOS developers.

Xamarin comes with its own IDE, Xamarin Studio, which supports cross platform development and common code for Android and IOS apps from a single code base. It also features a plugin for Visual Studio, which allows Visual Studio to be used as the IDE. This supports cross platform development for Android, iOS and Windows Phone, and provides full support for PCL and Shared Libraries.