Name: An Introduction to Reactive Extensions (Rx) and Reactive UI
Start: 2015-02-26T17:45:00-06:00
End: 2015-02-26T20:30:00-06:00
Location: TechNexus

Mike Stonis or Eightbot will introduce and explain Reactive Extensions and the Reactive UI frameworks, and how they can be used within the Xamarin cross platform ecosystem.

Reactive Extensions (Rx) is a framework managed by Microsoft Open Technologies, and developed by MOT and the open source community, that helps developers create asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences and LINQ-style query operators. Using Rx, developers represent asynchronous data streams with Observables, query asynchronous data streams using LINQ operators, and parameterize the concurrency in the asynchronous data streams using Schedulers. Simply put, Rx = Observables + LINQ + Schedulers.

Using Rx, you can represent multiple asynchronous data streams (that come from diverse sources) and subscribe to the event stream using the IObserver interface. The IObservable interface notifies the subscribed IObserver interface whenever an event occurs.

Rx.Net is an extensible framework that supports any .Net 4+ framework, and is compatible with Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android and Windows Phone 8+. In the mobile space, it is particularly compelling for use in applications that are based around 'pushed' data from multiple sources.

ReactiveUI is a combination of MVVM and Reactive Extensions (Rx), developed and maintained by Paul Betts. Combining these two makes managing concurrency as well as expressing complicated interactions between objects possible in a declarative, functional way. Put simply, if you’ve ever had to chain events / callbacks together and declare state ints/booleans to keep track of what’s going on, Reactive Extensions provides a simpler alternative.

As usual food and drink will be provided.

Thank you to EightBot or sponsoring and arranging hosting for this event.

See you there!

Planned agenda:

17.45 Networking

18.15 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 iOS8.1 and Android API level 21.

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

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