Blurring your app's boundaries with extensions and intents

Dear Mobel enthusiasts,

Let's meet up again! We'd like to invite you for another Mobel event.

Date: Tuesday, March 8

Location:

This time the nice people at KDG hogeschool Antwerp will be hosting. We're looking forward to welcoming the KDG students to this and any future Mobel events.

Karel de Grote Hogeschool
Nationalestraat 5
Antwerpen

Topic of the evening:

"Blurring your app’s boundaries with extensions and intents.Using iOS App Extensions, Android Intents and Windows Share Contracts"

Siebe Sysmans - "Cross-app communication and plugin architecture in Android"

Siebe Sysmans started playing with Android development four years ago and has been loving it ever since. Currently he is employed at AppFoundry and working as a consultant on the Vente-Exclusive.com Android app.

Siebe will show you different ways of using Intents, Services, the PackageManager and more Android goods to do cross-app communication in Android and how those components can be used to make a plugin architecture.

Jorge de Corte - "App Extensions in iOS"

Jorge De Corte started out as an Android developer but decided he liked iOS development more. Besides working as an iOS consultant at Cozmos he likes to tinker with cool Internet of Things devices. Currently he is working on different iOS apps at VRT. Since may 2015 he has an iOS app in the store that uses a Today and Apple Watch Extension and loves to talk about his experiences.

What are App Extensions and which App Extension can complement your new or existing app? What are the challenges and technical hurdles you have to cross to add an extension in your app and get it in the App Store? This talk will answer these questions and explain the pitfalls and best practices.

Pieter Nijs - "Data sharing and Cross-App communication in UWP"

Pieter Nijs lives in Belgium and works as a Senior .NET Software Engineer/Consultant and Leader of the Mobile Competence Center at Ordina Belgium. On a day to day basis he works with things like .NET, UWP, C#, XAML, Visual Studio, Azure, Team Foundation Server, Xamarin,… As you might conclude from these technologies, his main interest is Microsoft technologies and mobile development. But, he is also likes to play with things like BDD, TypeScript, Kinect 2, IoT-stuf,… At Ordina he gives a vast amount of trainings and sessions, both in-home and at customers. But he also speaks at public and community-driven events.

In this session, Pieter will give you a short overview of the different possibilities to share data between Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps. Things like Share contracts, Drag & Drop between apps, App services, … will be highlighted and discussed. After this session people should have a clear understanding about the different sharing possibilities in UWP.

Hope to see you there!

• The Mobel steering team