Join us for our virtual online only event in November sponsored 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

November Topic - Using Sentry.io to Instrument Your Xamarin Apps

Using a tool like Sentry.io to track exceptions in your app can be a huge help in reducing your MTTR (mean time to resolve) for production issues. Come hear about how to get started and some tricks we've learned along the way.

Presented by Scott Colestock
Scott Colestock is an independent consultant in the Twin Cities focusing on cloud and mobile architecture.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/scolestock/

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, November 19th
5:30 - 6:00 PM - Social time
6:00 - ~7:30 PM - Presentation and Discussion

This is an online only virtual meeting. We are NOT meeting in person in Edina

This meeting is sponsored by ILM Professional Services.

I'm pleased to announce yet another Xamarin Warsaw Mobile Developers meetup!

Join us ONLINE: https://www.meetup.com/XamarinWarsawMobileDevelopers/events/273578081/

🗓 Agenda

🚀 18:00 - 18:05 | Opening

1️⃣ 18:05 - 18:50 | All you should know about Shell in Xamarin | Bohdan Benetskyi

Why Shell? - Because Xamarin.Forms Shell is a container which aims to improve the navigation complexity of our applications. What we can do with Shell? - Reduce the complexity of mobile application development; Provide a common browsing user experience; Use a URI-based navigation scheme; And much much more...

Bohdan:
Bohdan is Xamarin Software Developer from Rzeszow, co-organizer of Xamarin Local Events in Rzeszow & Cracow, local CSS at Xamarin Advocate. Engaged in writing a blog at Medium and development of cross-platform NuGet package for an easy and convenient way to paint different complexity gradients in SkiaSharp for the Xamarin platform. He enjoys good beer and various discussions about writing programs and their architecture.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bohdan-benetskyi

2️⃣ 18:50 - 19:00 | Break

3️⃣ 19:00 - 19:45 | TBA

🙋‍♀️ Call for Papers

Would you like to share some interesting topic on Xamarin Warsaw Mobile Developers? Great! Contact with me directly. We are open for session propositions.

I'm pleased to announce yet another Xamarin Warsaw Mobile Developers meetup!

Join us ONLINE: https://www.meetup.com/XamarinWarsawMobileDevelopers/events/272763349/

🗓 Agenda

🚀 18:00 - 18:05 | Opening

1️⃣ 18:05 - 18:50 | App Center – How to create free devops solutions without shell scripting in under one hour | Konstanty Orzeszko
[EN 🇬🇧]

Have you always dreamed (or at least thought) about working, fully functional CI/CD pipeline but were overwhelmed with amount of development hours needed for setup? Are you tired of having to manually deploy test and production versions of your application? Do you have this certain amount of uncertainty when your product owner wants to release your app? Don't you hate the everchanging ui of the stores and would prefer a stable all in one interface? If your answer to any of above questions is yes, then attend live coding/clicking session where Konstanty will setup App Center for a sample app (he will cover building, testing, distribution, diagnostics and analytics).

Konstanty:
Software Architect @ PWPW S.A. with years of experience in Microsoft software stack. Over last two years heavily involved in Xamarin development. Passionate about dotnet and devops opportunities around it.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/konstanty-orzeszko-665b36161/

2️⃣ 18:50 - 19:00 | Break

3️⃣ 19:00 - 19:45 | Create a free, reliable, GDPR Compliant Mobile Analytics Service in 5 minutes | Saamer Mansoor
[EN 🇬🇧]

Tired of adding, maintaining and updating nuget packages just so you can get analytics on your app? Dislike how companies steal your data while trying to provide you with a “free” service. Now you can design analytics the way you want and track multiple apps in the same place rather than separately. Also learn other applications of the tricks you’re going to learn, as you get closer to becoming a full stack developer

Saamer:
Saamer Mansoor studied engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas and is now settled in Canada. He is a Lead Mobile Engineer who specializes in Xamarin Native development. He has worked on over 20 published Xamarin apps including ones with >1 million downloads that were top 5 on the App Stores in the Tools/Utility category. He loves contributing to the community- he is top 5% for Xamarin on Stack Overflow and is a Xamarin content creator. His Xamarin articles featured on PlanetXamarin have made it to various digital publications, and YouTube videos have over 500 view hours. He loves to stretch the boundaries of Xamarin including implementing NFC, using GitHub Actions, controlling Raspberry Pi’s, designing his own UI using Figma+Zeplin

https://www.linkedin.com/in/saamer

🙋‍♀️ Call for Papers

Would you like to share some interesting topic on Xamarin Warsaw Mobile Developers? Great! Contact with Damian directly. We are open for session propositions.

Join us for our virtual online only event in August sponsored 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

August Topic - Want Good Looking Xamarin Navigation? ViewModels!

Let's dive into Xamarin navigation basics, look at Prism concepts and then explore what a ViewModel-driven solution might look like. Victor is going to make the case that it's the only way to adhere to the MVVM pattern.

Presented by Victor Johnson
Victor Johnson started in the mobile space as the co-founder of Playtend, a native iOS shop. His apps were featured on the App Store homepage, put on dozens of Apple curated lists (Staff Favorites, App Store Essentials, Apps For Kids, etc), were downloaded by millions of users and earned nearly $1 million in B2C App Store revenue. Following Playtend, Victor contracted at Polaris Industries where he got a crash course on Xamarin Forms and C# by Scott Colestock of Marcato Partners. Since January 2015, he has focused on building Xamarin Forms/C# solutions for cross-platform apps.

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, August 20th
5:30 - 6:00 PM - Social time
6:00 - ~7:30 PM - Presentation and Discussion

This is an online only virtual meeting. We are NOT meeting in person in Edina

This meeting is sponsored by ILM Professional Services.

Join us for our virtual online only event in July sponsored 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

July Topic - Creating Simple Animations for Mobile with After Effects and Lottie

We’ll be walking through creating a very basic animation for your mobile project using Adobe After Effects. Then we’ll preview and export the animation using the Lottie json animation format, and show how the animation can be utilized in your app. I’m definitely not an After Effects expert, but I want to show how using it to create simple keyframe animations can enhance your projects.

Lottie is super lightweight and versatile. It can be used across Mobile, Web and Desktop. This is a good tool to have in your toolkit!

Presented by Joe Bowser
Joe Bowser is a mobile developer with over 5 years of Xamarin experience. His focus has been primarily on front end mobile development. Like many developers in this space he has also had to dabble in the UI/UX space to bring projects to life.

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, July 16th
5:30 - 6:00 PM - Social time featuring good food and beverages
6:00 - ~7:30 PM - Presentation and Discussion

This is an online only virtual meeting. We are NOT meeting in person in Edina

This meeting is sponsored by ILM Professional Services.

Join us for our virtual online only event in June sponsored 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

June Topic - The Future of Xamarin

For too long, Xamarin developers have been using old tools. But thanks to .NET 5 and the introduction of MAUI in .NET 6, everything is going to change!

.NET MAUI is an exciting new framework to create native iOS and Android apps in .NET using C# Hot Reload, a Fluent API syntax and the MVU architecture.

Join me in this session where we'll discuss that new fun changes are coming for Xamarin, introduce .NET MAUI, the MVU architecture and show off the power of C# Hot Reload!

Presented by Brandon Minnick
Brandon is a Developer Advocate at Microsoft where he gets to work closely with the developer community and help fellow mobile app and cloud developers make 5-star apps.

An avid mobile app developer, Brandon loves to code and has contributed to and published countless apps!

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

This is an online only virtual meeting. We are NOT meeting in person in Edina

This meeting is sponsored by ILM Professional Services.

I'm pleased to announce yet another Xamarin Warsaw Mobile Developers meetup!

Join us ONLINE: meetup.com/XamarinWarsawMobileDevelopers/events/270974482/ - sorry for providing link in such form, but I can't yet post direct links

🗓 Agenda

🚀 18:00 - 18:05 | Opening

1️⃣ 18:05 - 18:50 | Mobile Security recipes for Xamarin developers | Nico Milcoff
[EN 🇬🇧]

Mobile apps are the main source of security concerns in every software solution nowadays. But it doesn't have to be like that: In this session we will explore best practices, tips and tricks from OWASP MASVS that will take your app to a next level! Just remember: You don't need to be an expert to make an app secure.

Nico:
Nicolas is a mobile development expert. He works as CTO at Xablu and he is also a Microsoft MVP who actively contributes to / maintains open source projects like MvvmCross or BreachDetector. He loves to push forward the technologies he works with.

2️⃣ 18:50 - 19:00 | Break

3️⃣ 19:00 - 19:45 | TBA
[EN 🇬🇧]

🙋‍♀️ Call for Papers

Would you like to share some interesting topic on Xamarin Warsaw Mobile Developers? Great! Contact with me directly We are open for session propositions.

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 - Machine Learning 101

What do self-driving cars, email spam filters, and online recommendation offers all have in common? They all involve machine learning! It's at the forefront of analyzing and making decisions based on large amounts of data.

In this presentation, we'll introduce the basics of machine learning, talk about common applications, and walk through some examples and algorithms. Demos and code examples will be in C# using ML.Net.

Presented by Mark Kalal
Mark is a software development and IT professional, father of three, and technology enthusiast.

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 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.

Date: March 23, 2020
Venue: Improving Enterprises
5445 Legacy Dr.
Suite 100
Plano TX

Link: https://www.meetup.com/DFW-Mobile-NET/events/269052321/

We will be hosting a view party of the online conference .NET Conf "Focus on Xamarin". Bring your laptop to work and join us as we watch conference on the projector screen. We will have pizza for lunch. You won't want to miss the commentary as we watch together.

Conference: https://focus.dotnetconf.net/

We will have things to give away throughout the day include a couple of monkeys. I hope to see you there!