A presentation given at the March 2014 meetup of the Sydney Mobile .Net Developers Group

1. Sydney Mobile .Net
Developers
Azure Mobile Service with Xamarin and MvvmCross
.Net Micro Framework for Devices
Raygun
Alec Tucker
Head of Mobile Product Development, APAC
White Clarke Group

2. 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…

3. Leaders in Finance Technology
(also pretty good at supplying venue and pizza!!)

4. • 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.

6. 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

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

8. • Dave Glover, Microsoft
.Net Micro Framework for Devices

9. 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…

10. Questions / Discussion / Pizza

11. Contact Details / References
Group
http://www.meetup.com/SydneyMobileDot
NetDevelopers/
Xamarin
www.xamarin.com
MvvmCross
Slodge.blogspot.co.uk
Mvvm Background
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kashiffl/archive/2
010/11/14/mvvm-technical-
description.aspx
UX Design Guidelines
Apple
https://developer.apple.com/library
/ios/documentation/userexperience
/conceptual/mobilehig/
Android
https://developer.android.com/desi
gn/index.html
Windows Phone
http://dev.windowsphone.com/en-
us/design/principles
Further Contacts
Dave Glover – Microsoft
dglover@microsoft.com
Alec Tucker
atucker@whiteclarkegroup.com
@alecdtucker