Michael Ridland

Michael Ridland Technical Director, Founder and Xamarin Developer ABOUT ME Michael is a freelance .NET and Xamarin consultant. He’s been developing Xamarin applications for 2+ years. Xamarin is a superb tool that allows Michael to delight his users with beautiful native user interfaces. He’s looking forward to sharing his Xamarin experiences with other developers enabling…

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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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A Xamarin.Forms Deep Dive

In this session Michael Ridland takes a in depth look at Xamarin.Forms and answers the hard questions. Watch this session if you want to know: How the Xamarin.Forms magic works? Can Xamarin.Forms work in serious applications? How you can push the limits of Xamarin.Forms? How to use Mvvm with Xamarin.Forms? A must watch for all…

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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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Introduction to Xamarin – Filip Ekberg

In this session, Filip Ekberg provides us with a look at what Xamarin is, what problem does it solve and why it is important for your business. He later dives into how easily you can create a mobile application that runs on iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices. This session is part of a new…

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