Title: Xamarin vs Ionic: A Mobile, Cross Platform, Shootout
Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Time: 05:30 PM
Location:
Microsoft Technology Center
45 Liberty Blvd.
Malvern, PA, 19355

Host: Mid Atlantic Xamarin User Group
RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Mid-Atlantic-Xamarin-User-Group/events/246517401/

Presenter: Lee Richardson - Author of Siren of Shame (http://sirenofshame.com), a USB siren currently monitoring continuous integration builds in over 300 companies in 28 countries across the world. News sites including CodeProject, Visual Studio Magazine, and DevX.com have published nearly two dozen of Lee's technical articles since 2006. He is an avid blogger (http://www.leerichardson.com) with more than 75 posts over the last decade. He has worked in software development in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area for close to 20 years and is currently a senior developer at InfernoRed (http://infernored.com) where he is building cross platform iOS and Android applications for the banking industry. You can reach him on twitter @lprichar.

Learn the pro's and con's of two leading approaches for sharing code between iOS and Android mobile apps. This talk will compare building hybrid html/javascript apps in Ionic and Apache Cordova with building fully native ones in Xamarin. We'll cover development speed, quality of end result, maintainability, unit testing, and ramp-up time. You'll come away from this talk with the skills to choose between a native or hybrid architecture for your next cross-platform mobile project.

RSVP here: I can't post links so I guess Google "Chicago .NET Mobile Developers Meetup"...

Date: April 5th

Location: West Monroe Partners, 11th floor, 222 W. Adams St.

Details:

We'll give an overview of AR and VR technologies, and show you how to build these experiences using a variety of technologies including ARKit for iOS, ARCore for Android, the Oculus Rift SDK, Unity, UrhoSharp, .NET, C#, and more. As usual, refreshments will be provided.

Agenda:

6:00-6:30: Food, drinks, and networking
6:30-8:00: Presentation

Topics:

• Developing ARKit Apps for iOS using Xamarin
• Developing ARCore Apps for Android using Unity and .NET
• Developing with the Oculus Rift and Unity

Speakers

John Sprunger, Sr. Architect, West Monroe Partners
Greg Gammon, Principal, West Monroe Partners
Thomas Rogers, Consultant, West Monroe Partners
Adam Seppi, Consultant, West Monroe Partners

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.

RSVP Here: Minnesota Enterprise Mobile on Meetup

April Topic - Xamarin App Testing Using Jenkins CI pipeline with Kobiton

We will demonstrate how to use the Kobiton, Jenkins, and Git to create a CI pipeline to deliver a faster feedback loop while testing mobile applications. We’ll go over some of the problems we were trying to solve and why we needed a third party device farm (Kobiton) to elevate bottle necks in the CI pipeline.

Presented by John Prout
John Prout started his career at C.H. Robinson, and spent a little over 10 years there with around 8 in Test Automation using Microsoft Coded UI, Selenium and Protractor towards the last part of my stint there. After Joining Spok John started on the Mobile team and focused his efforts towards Appium. Helped build a framework around the mobile application that handled Android and iOS across multiple OS versions utilizing a 3rd party device farm.

Presented by Kyle Hansen
Kyle Hansen spent the last 5 years working with Coded UI, Selenium, and Appium, developing testing frameworks for web desktop, and mobile applications. Most recently focusing on mobile application testing within a Jenkins CI/CD pipeline using Kobiton. Kyle spends his free time making games, playing with google maps API’s, and breaking stuff.

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 19th
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.

Title: Hololens...Come out and network with other Xamarin developers
Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Time: 06:30 PM
Location:
Microsoft Technology Center
45 Liberty Blvd.
Malvern, PA, 19355

Host: Mid Atlantic Xamarin User Group
RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Mid-Atlantic-Xamarin-User-Group/events/246517401/

Presenter: Tim Yocum - Software Architect and managing partner at Yocum Technology Group

Come out and meetup with other Xamarin developers. If you have an app that you are working on that you'd like to demo and share with the group, please let us know in the comments. It's always fun to see what everyone is building. Our January speaker had a scheduling conflict and had to reschedule to March. But, we'll have a presentation ready to go. Also, if you haven't had a chance to check out the Hololens, come out and to January's meeting for a chance to see it in action. As always, pizza and soft drinks will be provided. Please RSVP so we have an accurate head count for food.

Tim Yocum will present a topic on developing for the Hololens with Xamarin, UrhoSharp, and Microsoft Cognitive services. Tim is a software architect with over 20 years of experience in various areas of technology. Most recently he has been specializing in custom .NET development (focusing on MVC, jQuery, KnockOut, react); Azure; and mobile development (Xamarin Certified Developer). His varied background includes working on projects as a custom development consultant (web services, web sites, mobile apps, etc), and database designer / data warehouse designer. He is active in the Microsoft user community, was the speaker coordinator for the Lehigh Valley.Net users group for many years; and is currently of the co-organizers of the Mid Atlantic Xamarin Users Group. He is also a veteran of the U.S. Navy. Tim is a software architect and managing partner at Yocum Technology Group (www.ytg.io), and can be found here on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-yocum-5110a44/

What to bring
A desire to learn and collaborate with other Xamarin developers.

We would like to invite you to Mobilise Your Business Conference that will take place April 19, 2018 in Microsoft Development Center in Copenhagen, Denmark. During this event experts from Microsoft and Sii will talk about the future of mobile technologies, Microsoft Cognitive Services and cross-platform technology Xamarin. The conference will allow you to develop your ideas thanks to outstanding presentations, discuss them with experts during networking session and as a result expand your business!

We invited speakers from Microsoft (San Francisco, USA) and Sii (Poland).

Participation is free of charge.
Register now via: xamarin.sii.pl

For more details and agenda, please visit: xamarin.sii.pl

About Sii
Sii is the top IT and Engineering services provider in Poland. It executes various technology projects for leading Polish and multinational companies. Sii supports its clients within the scope of software development, IT infrastructure, product engineering, service desk, training and testing.

Title: App Center and Persisting Data in Xamarin.Forms
Date: Tuesday, April 24th, 2018
Time: 19:30 Hs
Location: Lambda 3
Av. Angélica, 2318 - Conjunto 11-12 - Consolação, São Paulo - Brazil

Hosted by: Developers-BR
Link to RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Developers-SP/events/249294947/

Letticia Nicoli - Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer / Lambda3
Thiago Bertuzzi - Xamarin/.Net Senior Developer / NESS

Will present:
1 - We need to talk about Visual Studio App Center
How to achieve continuous improvement from development to after the release of its mobile application using the best features that Visual Studio App Center has to offer.

2 - Xamarin.Forms - Persisting data
The use of Rest services in mobile applications is a common practice for mobile developers.
But what if we need to save and manage local data? Is it just that with SQLite we solve all our problems?
In this lecture we will discuss other ways to persist data in Xamarin.Forms:

• Local Data
• Realm
• LiteDB
• Cache

The San Diego Xamarin Dev's will be taking a break from the normal Hackathon format as we look at what's new in the Xamarin Forms 3.0 preview. Then we'll look at what's coming in Prism 7.1 and how to accelerate your development with Prism and Xamarin Forms. Finally you'll see how to secure your code bases and get a sneak peak at new (FREE) developer tooling that will help you connect to, and setup your DevOps pipeline with AppCenter. Whether you're a seasoned Xamarin Developer or just trying to figure out if Xamarin is the right fit for you, this is a can't miss event that you won't find anywhere else!

Come join us in the Zeeto Employee Restaurant on April 5th at 6pm
https://www.meetup.com/SDXamarinDevs/events/248759816/