This document summarizes a meetup of the Sydney Mobile .Net Developers group in September 2014. The agenda included introductions, news updates, presentations on Reactive UI and mobile testing with Xamarin.UITest. The meetup also included lightning talks, food, and raffle prizes from event sponsors. Contact details were provided for speakers and organizers.

1. Sydney Mobile .Net
Developers (#SydMobNet)
September 2014
Alec Tucker
Head of Mobile Product Development, APAC
White Clarke Group
Xamarin Insider

2. 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
#SydMobNet

3. …interspersed with food and raffles for…
• Xamarin
• Monkeys
• Pluralsight
• 2 x 1 month subscription
• Mindscape
• $50 vouchers
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4. Envoy is hiring Senior .NET Developers
http://envoyat.com/careers

5. Leaders in Finance Technology
Atlanta, London, Munich, Shanghai, Sydney, Toronto, Venice

6. components.xamarin.com

8. Dive Deep into Mobile Development with the Experts!
xamarin.com/evolve

9. 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

10. Mobile Technical Lead Position
@ Bauer Media Group
• Xamarin Based
• 40+ existing applications
• Global Greenfield projects
• Xamarin.Forms
• MvvmCross
• Parse.com

11. ReactiveUI
Brendan 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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12. Lightning Talk: Genymotion
Craig Woollett
@WoolNCW
#SydMobNet

13. 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.
#SydMobNet

14. Questions / Discussion / Food
• Pizza
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15. 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
#SydMobNet
Genymotion
www.genymotion.com