Join us for our April event sponsored and hosted by ILM Professional Services. This is a FREE event and a great opportunity for networking and the latest insights in mobile development.

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April Topic - RestBuilder: How to Tame HttpClient….Fluently

Do you have dozens of HttpClient calls in your mobile app?
Are they all implemented similarly, but different enough to cause you headaches?
Are they as simple as you’d like?
Do you know how fast they each run?
Do they inconsistently handle Success, Failure and Exception outcomes, or skip them entirely?

Would you like to have a framework around HttpClient calls that simplifies all of the above?

RestBuilder is a wrapper around HttpClient that was created to simplify RESTful calls while simultaneously making them more powerful and consistent in their usage. RestBuilder uses a fluent-style syntax (inspired by Polly) to reduce a complex code patterns around HttpClient calls into a simple call that is both simple and quick to implement and also flexible and extendable.

Presented by John Hunter
John Hunter is the mobile tech lead for the Commercial Digital Solutions division of Ecolab where he develops cross-platform mobile applications in Xamarin to help improve food safety around the world.

About the Group
Led by local developers, the Minnesota Enterprise Mobile User Group is a place to come together to share knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned with the development community regarding enterprise mobile development, with a focus on mobile cross-platform application development and the Xamarin toolset. Our goal is to cover all areas of the Enterprise Mobile landscape.

Thursday, April 18th
5:30 - 6:00 PM - Social time featuring good food and beverages
6:00 - ~7:30 PM - Presentation and Discussion

Location
ILM Professional Services
5221 Viking Drive
Edina, MN 55435

Free on-site parking is available.

This meeting is hosted and sponsored by ILM Professional Services.

Community Update and Hackathon Chat

Some folks have expressed interest in having a hackathon. We’ll use this time to get your input and ideas around this, as well as giving an update of what’s happening in the community over the coming months.

Speaker : Dustyn Lightfoot

Xamarin Forms: Creating Controls, Renderers and Effects for UI Reuse

Being a Xamarin developer, one of our main goals is to be able to share as much code as possible between our applications. We often forget that we are also able to share a lot of our UI code, not only within our application, but also across all of our projects. One of the best ways to reuse UI code is through the use of Custom Controls, Effects and Custom Renderers.
In this session we’ll discuss some of the benefits of controls, renderers and effects, when to use each of them, and then dive straight in to a hands on live coding session where we’ll learn how to create controls, renderers and effects with bindable properties for some great customisation.

Speaker: Dustin McDonald

Event URL: https://www.meetup.com/Johannesburg-Ms-Dev-User-Group/events/259156671/

South Florida Code Camp 2019 at Nova University

Title: Xamarin Forms MVVM and Blockchain integration
Date: March 2, 2019
Time: 1:20-2:30 PM
Address:
NOVA UNIVERSITY
Carl DeSantis Building
6 SW 75th Ave · Davie, FL

Presented by: Mark J Radacz
Xamarin Forms MVVM and Blockchain integration
Learn how to integrate Xamarin Forms mobile app with Bitcoin

Event Agenda:
https://www.fladotnet.com/codecamp/Agenda.aspx

Registration link
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/south-florida-code-camp-2019-tickets-49310081782

Join us for our March event sponsored and hosted by ILM Professional Services. This is a FREE event and a great opportunity for networking and the latest insights in mobile development.

RSVP Here: Minnesota Enterprise Mobile on Meetup

March Topic - Get Ready for Xamarin.Forms 4.0!

Xamarin.Forms 4.0 provides some major new features to jumpstart your mobile application development. Come learn about the new Shell which provides a rich application host with menus, routing/navigation, and endless templating. Then see how the new CollectionView provides the richness that developers have been asking for in the ListView; new layout options, better native rendering, and a new refresh view. Finally, we’ll preview the new Visual support that provides consistent look and feel across platforms. Get ready for all these new features so you can use them in your next application.

Presented by Matt Milner
Matt is an independent consultant with expertise in web application design and development and systems integration. As a writer, Matt has contributed to several journals and magazines such as MSDN Magazine. Matt regularly shares his love of technology by speaking at local, regional, and international conferences such as DevWeek, Prairie Dev Con, That Conference, and VS Live. As a Pluralsight Author, Matt has created more than 30 courses on the topics of web, mobile, and cloud development.

About the Group
Led by local developers, the Minnesota Enterprise Mobile User Group is a place to come together to share knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned with the development community regarding enterprise mobile development, with a focus on mobile cross-platform application development and the Xamarin toolset. Our goal is to cover all areas of the Enterprise Mobile landscape.

Thursday, March 21st
5:30 - 6:00 PM - Social time featuring good food and beverages
6:00 - ~7:30 PM - Presentation and Discussion

Location
ILM Professional Services
5221 Viking Drive
Edina, MN 55435

Free on-site parking is available.

This meeting is hosted and sponsored by ILM Professional Services.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/app-innovation-workshop-tickets-54604362117
Thursday, February 28, 2019

Meidoornstraat 1a
1a Meidoornstraat
2860 Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium

Robin-Manuel Thiel from Microsoft will guide you through a full day hands-on course on how to setup up, build and deploy a mobile Xamarin application together with an Azure backend API build upon Cosmos DB. Using AppCenter to enable build and deploy pipeline.

Join us for our February event sponsored and hosted by ILM Professional Services. This is a FREE event and a great opportunity for networking and the latest insights in mobile development.

RSVP Here: Minnesota Enterprise Mobile on Meetup

February Topic - Offline Data Collection and Syncing with Xamarin

Case study review of two mobile apps developed for the livestock industry to work offline in remote locations. Built on Xamarin using SQL Lite and Realm. We will review challenges encountered with data collection where no internet access is available and storing data offline and syncing process used.

Presented by J. Alan Childs (CTO Meta Farms, Inc. - Burnsville, MN)
Alan has been working at MetaFarms since 2001 designing and developing their AG Platform for Swine and Poultry producers. MetaFarms tracks over 20 million hogs in the North America.

About the Group
Led by local developers, the Minnesota Enterprise Mobile User Group is a place to come together to share knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned with the development community regarding enterprise mobile development, with a focus on mobile cross-platform application development and the Xamarin toolset. Our goal is to cover all areas of the Enterprise Mobile landscape.

Thursday, February 21st
5:30 - 6:00 PM - Social time featuring good food and beverages
6:00 - ~7:30 PM - Presentation and Discussion

Location
ILM Professional Services
5221 Viking Drive
Edina, MN 55435

Free on-site parking is available.

This meeting is hosted and sponsored by ILM Professional Services.

Join us for our January event sponsored and hosted by ILM Professional Services. This is a FREE event and a great opportunity for networking and the latest insights in mobile development.

RSVP Here: Minnesota Enterprise Mobile on Meetup

January Topic - Getting Started with Unity Game Engine

Steve will be taking us on a quick tour of Unity by showcasing a few exciting examples, then a dive into the ecosystem and features of the game engine, followed by some hands on mechanics, and wrapping up with Q&A, and some great resources for you to continue the journey!

Presented by Steve Killingbeck
A professional developer of 20+ years, longtime freelancer and Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer who has had the great fortune of working with top brands and on cutting edge multimedia projects ranging from medical software, product configurators, games, simulations, e-learning, rich internet applications (RIAs), CDROMs, touchscreen kiosks, mobile apps, VJing for live music events with live performance visuals and projection mapping and stage lighting.

About the Group
Led by local developers, the Minnesota Enterprise Mobile User Group is a place to come together to share knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned with the development community regarding enterprise mobile development, with a focus on mobile cross-platform application development and the Xamarin toolset. Our goal is to cover all areas of the Enterprise Mobile landscape.

Thursday, January 17th
5:30 - 6:00 PM - Social time featuring good food and beverages
6:00 - ~7:30 PM - Presentation and Discussion

Location
ILM Professional Services
5221 Viking Drive
Edina, MN 55435

Free on-site parking is available.

This meeting is hosted and sponsored by ILM Professional Services.

Online event Brazilian on the .net channel of Xamarin + Prism with good MVVM practices