Events – Exploration Space

CTXUG Monthly Meetup 1 March 2017

March 1, 2017March 6, 2017 apead

Tonight was a very fun evening at CTXUG (Cape Town Xamarin User’s Group). The two topics presented were Telerik UI for Xamarin and Lottie. The User Group was held at the MLab office at the waterfront which is a great place to have events!

Event URL: https://www.meetup.com/Cape-Town-Xamarin-Users-Group/events/237781504/

Telerik UI

“Telerik® UI for Xamarin by Progress is a collection of UI controls and functionalities that complement the default controls found in the platform. The controls offer many non-trivial scenarios out of the box, helping developers to implement polished UI with native-quality performance in their apps faster, shortening time to market. Telerik UI for Xamarin includes Xamarin.iOS wrappers, Xamarin.Android wrappers and Xamarin.Forms controls.”

I did the first talk this time on Telerik UI for Xamarin. It was great showing off what the component set could do, and everyone seemed inspired and impressed with what Telerik UI for Xamarin offers.

I do hope the free Telerik license recipients will be presenting the cool stuff they build soon at CTXUG!!! 🙂

Thank you to Telerik for all the giveaways!!

Speaker: Allan Pead

The slides for this can be found on github: http://bit.ly/2mGtt61

More details on Telerik UI for Xamarin can be found here: http://www.telerik.com/campaigns/xamarin-ui/telerik-ui-for-xamarin

Photos

Lottie

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Lottie is a mobile library for Android and iOS that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json with Bodymovin and renders them natively on mobile!

For the first time, designers can create and ship beautiful animations without an engineer painstakingly recreating it by hand.”

Chris van Wyk (from Xamarin University) gave an amazing talk on the amazing animation framework Lottie. Everyone (including myself) was really, really impressed what Lottie can do.

Speaker: Chris van Wyk

More information about Lottie: https://github.com/martijn00/LottieXamarin

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I hope to see everyone at CTXUG soon! <Update> The next User Group meetup is on the 29th of March. The topic will be Visual Studio 2017!!

Week of the Microsoft Tech Summit in Pictures

February 10, 2017March 5, 2017 apead

This week was brilliant! Scott Hanselman was in South Africa, there was a Microsoft Tech Summit in Johannesburg and then Scott Hanselman was again at DeveloperUG! I extended my stay to attend that, and it was certainly worth it!

Can’t have a much better week than this!

Xamarin User Groups in South Africa

December 5, 2016February 15, 2017 apead

There are three Xamarin User Groups in South Africa. Here you will find monthly topics which will include both .NET and Xamarin mobile related topics.

The groups are there to bring the Xamarin community together, where knowledge can be shared and experiences learnt from. Hope you see you at an event soon!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ctxug

Cape Town Xamarin Users Group (@CTXUG)

Cape Town, ZA
170 Members

Calling everyone interested in cross platform mobile development. Specifically if you are interested in or using Xamarin tools. Or if you just want to talk mobile development …

Check out this Meetup Group →

Twitter: https://twitter.com/gxugsa

Gauteng Xamarin User Group (@GXUGSA)

Johannesburg, ZA
179 Members

Calling everyone interested in cross platform mobile development. Specifically if you are interested in or using Xamarin tools. Or if you just want to talk mobile development …

Next Meetup

Motion & Xamarin.Forms

Tuesday, Mar 14, 2017, 6:30 PM
15 Attending

Check out this Meetup Group →

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DXUGSA

Durban Xamarin User Group (@DXUGSA)

Durban, ZA
64 Members

Calling all cross platform developers, from Durban, that use Xamarin as their preferred tool of choice.

Check out this Meetup Group →

Xamarin and .NET automated builds and continuous integration (CTXUG)

November 16, 2016February 20, 2017 apead

Come join us for a very practical session on automating your Xamarin builds and setting up a continuous integration environment.

Leave here with skills to be able to use any CI tooling with Xamarin.

I am the speaker for this event.

Agenda

1) Introduction to Continuous Integration

2) How does Xamarin build stuff behind the scenes?

Fundamentals of MSBUILD

Xamarin and MS Build

iOS build agent for Visual Studio

iOS and Android Packaging

3) Setting up a continuous build server

The code repository

Automating the build

4) Test Cloud

We will also have a first look at Visual Studio Mobile Center.

Hope to see you there!

Update

The content is available here: https://github.com/apead/XUGSABuildAutomation

Xamarin Dev Days South Africa

November 5, 2016February 15, 2017 apead

Xamarin Dev Days South Africa was amazing! Thank you very much to all that attended and hope it was worthwhile to take time off your busy scheduled to learn about Xamarin.

I am so proud to have been part of this and thank you to the team and all involved!

Xamarin Dev Days Cape Town

http://explorationspace.co.za/2016/09/30/xamarin-dev-days-cape-town-30-septemeber-2016/

Xamarin Dev Days Johannesburg

http://explorationspace.co.za/2016/09/23/xamarin-dev-days-johannesburg-23-september-2016/

Xamarin Dev Days Cape Town 30 September 2016

September 30, 2016February 5, 2017 apead

Xamarin Dev Days Cape Town was definitely one of the prettiest dev days in world. Thanks to all that came!

I’m so proud to have been part of bringing Xamarin Dev Days to Africa for the first time. May there be many more!!

What the day entailed:

Xamarin Dev Days Agenda

09:00 AM – 09:30 AM Registration

09:30 AM – 10:10 AM Intro Xamarin presentation

10:20 AM – 11:00 AM Cross-platform Xamarin presentation

11:10 AM – 11:50 AM Cloud Xamarin presentation

12:00 PM – 12:45 PM Lunch

12:45 PM – 1:30 PM Sponsor speaker slot (Zebra)

01:30 PM – 16:30 PM Hackathon Challenge Walkthrough

Local Organizers & Xamarin Experts

Chris van Wyk – Xamarin University Trainer: @ChrisvWyk
Allan Pead – @adpead
Roger Weiss – @rdweiss
Matthew Leibowitz – @mattleibow
Martin Kirsten – @mrtnkrstn
Brent Samodien – @BSamodien

Special thanks to the sponsors:

Microsoft South Africa http://www.microsoft.com

Zebra Technologies http://www.zebra.com

MLab https://www.mlab.co.za/

AD Software Systems http://www.adsoftsystems.co.za

The event in pictures:

Our awesome sponsor Zebra showcasing their devices

Xamarin Dev Days Johannesburg 23 September 2016

September 23, 2016March 1, 2017 apead

The turnout at Xamarin Dev Days Johannesburg was amazing!! Thanks to all that came.

I’m so proud to have been part of bringing Xamarin Dev Days to Africa for the first time. May there be many more!!

What the day entailed:

Xamarin Dev Days Agenda

09:00 AM – 09:30 AM Registration

09:30 AM – 10:10 AM Intro Xamarin presentation

10:20 AM – 11:00 AM Cross-platform Xamarin presentation

11:10 AM – 11:50 AM Cloud Xamarin presentation

12:00 PM – 12:45 PM Lunch

12:45 PM – 1:30 PM Sponsor speaker slot (Zebra)

01:30 PM – 16:30 PM Hackathon Challenge Walkthrough

Local Organizers & Xamarin Experts

Chris van Wyk – Xamarin University Trainer: @ChrisvWyk
Allan Pead – @adpead
Dustyn Lightfoot – @dustynlightfoot
Gert Smith – @gertsmith
Dave Russell – @DaveMSDevSA

Special thanks to the sponsors:

Microsoft South Africa http://www.microsoft.com

Zebra Technologies http://www.zebra.com

MLab https://www.mlab.co.za/

AD Software Systems http://www.adsoftsystems.co.za

The event in pictures:

Xamarin Dev Days Announced (with Dates)

August 17, 2016February 5, 2017 apead

I’m very excited to be able to tell you we are brining Xamarin Dev Days to South Africa for the first time! It will also be held in two cities, Cape Town and Johannesburg.

We have our venues and sponsors organized, and more importantly the dates.

Please diarise!

Xamarin Dev Days Cape Town will be held on the 30th of September 2016. It will be held at Workshop 17 at the V&A.

Xamarin Dev Days Johannesburg will be held on the 23rd of September 2016. It will be held at the Microsoft Bryanston offices.

The awesome sponsors are:

Microsoft South Africa http://www.microsoft.com

Zebra Technologies http://www.zebra.com

MLab https://www.mlab.co.za/

AD Software Systems http://www.adsoftsystems.co.za

Without them, these events would definitely not be possible!! Thank you!

Content from the CTXUG Talk: The Xamarin Evolve Experience

May 20, 2016February 20, 2017 apead

I’ve shared the content from the CTXUG (Cape Town Xamarin User’s group) event on the 19th of May. It was great reliving Xamarin Evolve 2016 with you.

The slide content can be found on Github:

https://github.com/apead/CTXUG/tree/2faa7c3b62e61da1552c8993c1f53cdfe36247c9/19052016

Hope to see you at the next event!

Content from NodeBots Talk: Monkey.Robotics

November 30, 2014February 20, 2017 apead

I was very privileged to be showing NodeJs developers at Nodebots Cape Town something different. A Xamarin framework I really enjoy: Monkey Robotics!

The slides can be found here:

https://github.com/apead/CTXUG/tree/2faa7c3b62e61da1552c8993c1f53cdfe36247c9/18112014/Monkey%20Robotics

Happy Xamarin Coding!