Xamarin 4! Everything you need to Build Great Mobile Apps

5:30 PM - 6:00 PM Food & Networking (food delivered ~5:45 PM)

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Presentation

The Topic:

Come celebrate Xamarin 4 with cake, pizza, and learning how to build, test, monitor, and accelerate native iOS and Android mobile app development in C#. Xamarin 4 was just announced including some amazing new features and enhancements including the all new Xamarin Mac Agent and Xamarin.Forms 2.0 for enterprise grade mobile development, the brand new Test Recorder, and free crash reporting with the General Availability of Xamarin Insights. This month we will take a look at all the new enhancements into iOS and Android Development in C# with Xamarin and all of the latest features that were just released. There will be something for everyone in this content packed meetup no matter if you are new or have been developing with Xamarin for some time.

Here are just a few topics that we will cover:

Xamarin.Forms 2.0: Xamarin developers have taken advantage of a shared business logic backend for years, but with the introduction of Xamarin.Forms it accelerate their cross-platform development introducing a shared user interface library and full MVVM Framework. Xamarin.Forms 2.0 takes advantage of the latest iOS 9 and Android Marshmallow features including material design, introduces several new gestures such as pull-to-refresh, rotate, pinch, and panning, as well as significant performance enhancements.

Xamarin Test Cloud & the Test Recorder: Xamarin developers are able to take advantage of their free Test Cloud time to test their applications on over 2,000 iOS and Android devices. We will take a look at the Test Cloud and see how the brand new Test Recorder simplifies the creation of complex tests to get you testing faster.

Xamarin Insights: Now Generally available with completely free crash reporting for Xamarin developers giving you full native and managed crash reports and stack traces with just a single line of code! With a full cross-platform SDK you can easily report exceptions, track events, and gather additional information about the devices your app is running on.

So Much More: That is just the start! Xamarin 4 is packed full of even more features (https://blog.xamarin.com/introducing-xamarin-4/) and enhancements that we will cover.

We're going to have some cool give aways, including a complimentary Xamarin subscription!

The Speaker:

Matthew Soucoup is a Xamarin MVP and has worked with C# since 2005 and started creating cross platform mobile apps with Xamarin in 2010. Matt founded Code Mill Technologies, which specializes in .NET and mobile cross platform app development and is an Authorized Xamarin Partner. When not slinging code, writing highly entertaining blog posts, or speaking at various conferences or user groups, Matt can be found gardening hot peppers and playing 80s hits on the piano!