Sydney Mobile .Net Developers Group Mar 2014 SydMobNet

Sydney Mobile .Net Developers

Azure Mobile Service with Xamarin and MvvmCross.Net Micro Framework for Devices

Raygun

Alec TuckerHead of Mobile Product Development, APAC

White Clarke Group

Agenda• Introductions• News• Raygun Intro – Ian Jones• .Net Micro Framework for Devices, Dave Glover - Microsoft• Azure Mobile Services with Xamarin & MvvmCross• Group Details• http://xamarin.meetup.com/ • http://www.meetup.com/SydneyMobileDotNetDevelopers/

• Current sponsors…

Leaders in Finance Technology

(also pretty good at supplying venue and pizza!!)

• Sign up at xamarin.com/university• Learn to build native iOS, Android, and Windows

apps with C# in just 30 days.• Live online, interactive classes with live coding.• Labs with full source code solutions.• Nearly 600 pages of curriculum documentation.• Access to Xamarin Certified Developer exam.• First March session is filling up fast.

News• This group was mentioned on the Xamarin blog

– 27th biggest Xamarin group…in the world! (Stormed past Vancouver last night, now neck and neck with Orlando, not that it’s a competition…)

• Android Wear – same day support from Xamarin• Same day support for iOS7.1• MS Build conference in San Francisco 2 – 4 Apr• Evolve 2014 ticket sales begin on April 10th (or 9th if you’re on the good list)• Xamarin partnership with Samsung (Knox) in addition to SAP and Microsoft• Xamarin comes to Channel 9 on MSDN• Xamarin selected by Dr Dobb’s magazine as the Jolt Award Winner for the

best mobile development tool

• Available on the component store – components.xamarin.com• Ian Jones• More detail in a future presentation…?

Raygun

• Dave Glover, Microsoft

.Net Micro Framework for Devices

Azure Mobile Services with Xamarin & MvvmCross• Use from a PCL – all three platforms?...• Current status (not broken, just bent...update coming)• manage.windowsazure.com• Demo…

Questions / Discussion / Pizza

Contact Details / References

Group

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

Xamarin

www.xamarin.com

MvvmCross

Slodge.blogspot.co.uk

Mvvm Background

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kashiffl/archive/2010/11/14/mvvm-technical-description.aspx

UX Design Guidelines

Applehttps://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/mobilehig/

Androidhttps://developer.android.com/design/index.html

Windows Phonehttp://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/design/principles

Further Contacts

Dave Glover – Microsoft dglover@microsoft.com

Alec Tucker atucker@whiteclarkegroup.com @alecdtucker