sydmobnet april 2014 #xamarin #build

Sydney Mobile .Net Developers

Build, Learn, Publish – an Update from Build 2014Cross Platform Visual State Management

Alec TuckerHead of Mobile Product Development, APAC

White Clarke Group

Agenda• Introductions• News• Build, Learn, Publish – Nick Randolph• Cross Platform Visual State Management – Nick Randolph• Special guest star: Craig Dunn from Xamarin San Francisco• Group Details• http://xamarin.meetup.com/ • http://www.meetup.com/SydneyMobileDotNetDevelopers/

…interspersed with food,and raffles for…• Xamarin

• Monkey• Pen

• Nokia• 2 x key ring bottle openers

• Pluralsight• 2 x 1 month subscription• 1 x T-shirt

• Mindscape• $50 vouchers• 1 x Phone Elements licence

• 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.

Leaders in Finance Technology

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News• Group membership passes 70• Xamarin Evolve Tickets on sale• Build Updates – coming next• Meetup date changing to the SECOND Tuesday of the month – next meetup

will be on the 13th of May. Topic TBA…• Updated code from the last session on Cross Platform Azure Mobile

Services with Xamarin and corresponding blog post will be published shortly

• A quick lap around the announcements from BUILD 2014 as they apply to the Windows platform, and some information on the upcoming community events here in Australia

Build 2014

• Blend for Visual Studio makes it easy to define visual states for Windows platform applications. In this session you’ll learn the basics of declaring and using visual states in XAML based applications. You’ll see that you can do visual state management within your view model, making it possible to reuse the same logic across multiple platforms.

Cross Platform Visual State Management

Guest Star – Craig Dunn

Questions / Discussion / Food

Contact Details / References

Group

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

Xamarin

www.xamarin.com

MvvmCross

Slodge.blogspot.co.uk

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

Nick Randolph nick@builttoroam.com @BTRoam

Craig Dunn craig@xamarin.com @conceptdev

Alec Tucker atucker@whiteclarkegroup.com @alecdtucker