Guest lecture by MVPs Bart Lannoeye and Glenn Versweyveld: PRISM + Xamarin Forms

Fellow Xamurais, we're happy to announce that in this Meetup Bart Lannoeye, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft Windows Development and PRISM contributor on GitHub, and Glenn Versweyveld, MVP for Windows Platform Development and Xamarin, will give a guest lecture on PRISM and RESTful Xamarin Forms apps.

Firstly, Bart will give us an in-depth look at PRISM, a framework for building loosely coupled, maintainable, and testable XAML applications in WPF, Windows 10 UWP, and Xamarin Forms.

Secondly, Glenn will his talk Create connected mobile Xamarin apps - the right ( and lazy ) way!

Most mobile apps rely on an internet connection to get hold of their data. But by doing so, a lot of issues can arise while trying and in the process the app still needs to feel fast and usable to the end user.

In this session, we will show you how you can set up a robust connected app with a minimum of effort in Xamarin forms. We will target a remote REST service and incorporate the data in our app, presenting it to the user. This will involve heavy use of several nuget packages, that will help us in getting an optimal user experience.

We will look at REFIT to easily map out the REST service calls, use Akavache to enable a local disk cache, integrate Polly for some retry mechanisms and rely on PRISM for a nice MVVM flow.

So everything a seasoned Xamarin forms developer needs to know to get a production ready connected app.

You can already download Glenn's source code (https://github.com/Depechie/2017-ConnectedApp/) from GitHub.