Xamarin Utility Belt

Xamarin, as one of the strongest suits of Microsoft in cross platform development arena, have been replenishing its arsenal of development and application lifecycle management tools. Starting with the development IDE improvements and support on OS X, Xamarin team unleashed multiple tools in the past year including Xamarin live player, VSTS tasks development pipeline automation and last but not least Mobile Center that is to replace Hockey App in the near future. This presentation will give an overview of the available developer toolset for mobile cross platform development and walk you through the application development using Xamarin products.

Overview of the available developer toolset for mobile cross platform development and walk you through the application development using Xamarin products.

Microsoft + Open Source

.NET Core and Xamarin provide developers with the tools necessary to develop truly universal applications as well as platform and host agnostic web applications. In this context, both developers with .NET background and migrating developers from other platforms have a lot to get introduced to as well as their existing know-how that they can reuse. This presentation will give an overview of the cross platform development opportunities provided by Microsoft's very own .NET framework.

Bringing UI to Life on Universal Windows Platform

Including the latest addition of Composition API, Universal Windows Platform offers a wide range of options to create engaging, beautiful and vivid user interface elements. This presentation will provide demonstrations of what can be done using various animation framework modules such as EffectBrush, Implicit, Connected and Expression Animations.

Xamarin.Forms vs. Classic Xamarin

Xamarin.Forms allows you to build a native UI for three platforms with one shared C# codebase and declarative XAML design as opposed to the classic Xamarin approach where the UI is designed and implemented in native platform. As Xamarin.Forms evolves, extension points in this platform increase substantially, giving developers the flexibility of classic Xamarin projects. This presentation will try compare and give real world use-cases for the two different approaches and will give a breakdown of new features and a peek into the future road map of Xamarin.Forms.

Flux Architecture with Xamarin

A taste of flux architecture using Xamarin.Forms and demonstrates the benefits and shortcomings of this architectural approach.