June 2015 - One UI to Rule them All with Xamarin.Forms (Greg Levenhagen)

Presentation:

Mobile apps are clearly here to stay. As developers, we’ve seen a lot of technologies come and go that promised a write-once and run-everywhere scenario. Xamarin has been around for a while and allowing developers to use a C# code base with native user interfaces. Last summer, Xamarin added support for the user interface under the brand of Xamarin Forms, which provides a XAML-like implementation for markup. This lets developers use C# and XAML to write mobile apps to target iOS, Android and Windows Phone based on Silverlight. Universal Apps allow us to target Windows Store and Windows Phone based on WinRT using XAML for the UI and using C# for logic. What does the development scenario look like for trying to hit all 4 platforms using XAML and C#. Come see what Universal Apps and Xamarin.Forms can do for you, where it may fit it and the pros and cons of this type of cross platform mobile development.

Speaker: Greg Levenhagen
Greg Levenhagen is a Microsoft MVP in Windows Platform Development and senior software engineer consultant with Skyline Technologies. He has a great passion for giving back to the community and teaching. A true enthusiast of computer science, with passions and interests including mobile, UX, architecture, parallel, testing, agile, 3D/games, cloud, languages and much more. Greg speaks at conferences like ThatConference, Code PaLOUsa, CodeMash, VSLive, KCDC and DevLink. He is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer, board member of ThatConference, president of the Northeast WI Developers User Group / Northeast WI Code Camp / Milwaukee Code Camp, cofounder of the Northeast WI Agile User’s Group, INETA speaker, IEEE and ACM member and a PhD student.

Meeting Sponsors:
Skyline Technologies (http://www.skylinetechnologies.com/)
Thomson Reuters (http://www.thomsonreuters.com/)

Event Location:
Thomson Reuters
Town Hall
450 North Sunny Slope Road
Brookfield, WI 53005
(Park in lot near the western most entrance.)
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