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We’re back at JLR Offices on Monday 5th August with two amazing talks lined up from Mike Irving & Tim Condon!

Talk 1
Cross platform development has certainly tried to cement itself in the Mobile App Industry over the years but with options to choose from, it’s hard to know the finer details.

This month, Mike Irving will be taking us through one of the early adaptor of Cross Platform App Development, Microsoft’s Xamarin and how this has recently evolved into .NET MAUI

Details

• A look at how Xamarin evolved, the different things that ‘Xamarin’ came to mean (Native Apps in C#, 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

About the Speaker - Mike Irving

Microsoft MVP, Co-organiser of Dot Net North and Macc Tech.

Mike started programming as a young child on the Dragon 32 micro computer, and later on a ZX Spectrum.

Professionally, Mike started out in web development on the Microsoft Stack. However, and in more recent times he has been heavily involved in mobile development, both native and cross-platform.

Though regularly coding Swift, Kotlin and JavaScript, C# / .NET has remained a constant though his career.

Talk 2
Passkeys - the why, the what, the how - Tim Codon

Apple announced Passkeys back at WWDC22 and have been a wide adopter for many apps that require authentication since.

In this talk, Tim will take us through everything you need to know around passkeys and how to implement them in your app.

Event Details
This is sure to be an exciting and interesting talk with lots of topics for discussion.

18:00: Arrive & Socialise
18:30: Intro & Latest News - Chris Barker
18:40: Xamarin: Moving On - Mike Irving
19:20: Passkeys - the why, the what, the how - Tim Condon
19:45: Finish & Social