Supercharge Your Xamarin App! | Chris Briggs at Xamarin Hack Day Sydney

In this video, SSW’s Chris Briggs gives us a quick-fire lesson on how to better build our Xamarin apps. He shows: How we can handle frustrating transient exceptions effortless with Polly How to simplify persisting data across platforms with Akavache How to avoid pulling out your hair when debugging asynchronous errors using Fody.AsyncErrorHandler This presentation…

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What’s New in Visual Studio + ALM with Adam Cogan

The latest versions of Visual Studio and TFS are packed full of great new tools. Among the highlights are improved tools for Windows Phone 8.1 and Microsoft Azure, tooling support for Apache Cordova, ASP.NET vNext preview, the great new TFS Rest API, Application Insights and well as a bunch of cross-platform additions to make the…

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Using Virtualisation to Debug Mobile Applications | Craig Woollett

Virtualisation is the core of cloud technology but it also provides an opportunity for developers to simulate production environments for ease of testing and debugging. This presentation demonstrates debugging Web API for an Android mobile application using Genymotion and Visual Studio as part of a virtual test network. Also there will be a demonstration of…

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Introduction to iBeacons with Xamarin – Rod Howarth

Developers have been using GPS and WiFi location detection to enhance their mobile applications and reduce the amount of input required by users by detecting where the user is at a given point in time. However these location detection techniques can only give an accuracy of approximately 10 metres, and are unreliable when the user…

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Xamarin HackDay

Xamarin HackDays aren’t just for Xamarin developers – they’re for anyone who wants to learn Xamarin to design, develop, integrate, test apps, and more. At our first Xamarin HackDay, our three presenters gave the audience a great introduction to the topic and then everyone got stuck into trying it out for themselves. The day was…

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