Mike Irving - Xamarin: Moving On

Mike joins us to talk about Xamarin and and the future

A look at how Xamarin evolved, the different things that ‘Xamarin’ came to mean (Native Apps, Class Libraries, much later Xamarin.Forms.. but also Xamarin Studio, plus tooling like HockeyApp / App Center and more) ..

Advantages of the Xamarin avenues, but also pitfalls and problems.

Where to turn now on each of those paths (not necessarily a case of ‘choose .NET MAUI’):

Native Apps in C#, but also a look at Swift and Kotlin, discussing advantages of either approach

And for Cross Platform: .NET MAUI, Uno Platform, Avalonia UI, or non-C# offerings.

IDE choices, and replacements for tooling like App Center

Agenda:
18:30 Arrive, Network and Food.
18:45 Introductions and catch-up.
19:00 Talk.
20:30 Close and head off to pub (Old Joint Stock) for some more talking.