SydMobNet September 2014: ReactiveUI, Genymotion, Xamarin.UITest and Xamarin Test Cloud

Sydney Mobile .Net Developers (#SydMobNet)

September 2014

Alec TuckerHead of Mobile Product Development, APAC

White Clarke GroupXamarin Insider

Agenda• Introductions• News• Reactive UI• Brendan Forster

• Lightning Talk: Genymotion• Craig Woollett

• Mobile Testing with Xamarin.UITest and Test Cloud• Glenn Stephens, Xamarin University Trainer

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…interspersed with food and raffles for…• Xamarin

• Monkeys

• Pluralsight• 2 x 1 month subscription

• Mindscape• $50 vouchers

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Dive Deep into Mobile Development with the Experts!

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News• Flurry Analytics – Women 31% More Likely to Make In-App Purchases

– http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/flurry-women-make-31-more-app-purchases-men/2014-08-25

• Biggest Time Sinks for Mobile Devs– Windows Phone: Design– iOS: Coding– Android: Debugging / Testing– http://

www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/evans-data-these-are-biggest-time-sinks-app-developers/2014-08-18

• TechEd Sessions Published for Melbourne and Sydney– http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/teched/session/default.aspx

• …and I think I heard something about Apple…#SydMobNet

Mobile Technical Lead Position @ Bauer Media Group

• Xamarin Based

• 40+ existing applications

• Global Greenfield projects

• Xamarin.Forms

• MvvmCross

• Parse.com

ReactiveUIBrendan Forster

• ReactiveUI is an MVVM framework designed to write testable mobile and desktop applications in C#. But this isn't a sales pitch.

• In this talk Brendan will go through the soup to nuts of what functional reactive programming is, why you should care, the inspiration behind ReactiveUI and how to use Reactive Extensions and ReactiveUI in your apps.

• That's a lot to cover, but hopefully we can even touch on some Xamarin development during this talk.

• Brendan is a recovering web developer and currently does a bunch of Windows stuff at GitHub. He has a neglected blog at brendanforster.com and writes silly things over on Twitter at @shiftkey.

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Lightning Talk: Genymotion

Craig Woollett@WoolNCW

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Mobile Testing with Xamarin.UITest and Test Cloud

Glenn Stephens – Xamarin University Trainer

How do you check that your application works on a wide range of devices? How can you perform automated testing to make sure your apps are ready and usable

on a wide range of devices?

We'll look at how to beat your fragmentation blues and make sure your apps look and behave as they should on as many Android and iOS devices as possible by

writing automated tests with Xamarin.UITest and then performing those tests on Test Cloud.

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Questions / Discussion / Food

• Pizza

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Contact Details / References

Group• http://www.meetup.com/SydneyMobileDotNetDevelopers/

Xamarin• www.xamarin.com

• evolve.xamarin.com

• university.xamarin.com

Microsoft• www.lalaninja.com.au

• dvlup.com

• wp.msdeveloper.com.au

Further Contacts

Brendan Forster• @ShiftKey

Craig Woollett• @WoolNCW

Glenn Stephens• @glenntstephens

Alec Tucker• atucker@whiteclarkegroup.com• @alecdtucker• blog.alectucker.com• linkedin.com/in/alectucker

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Genymotionwww.genymotion.com