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 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
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:
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
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:
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!
I received a question about how to Bind Pins to a Xamarin.Forms Map.
I created a code sample on Github:
https://github.com/apead/CTXUG/tree/master/30052016/FormsMapsSample
Happy Xamarin.Forms coding!
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!
In certain situations the emulators provided just don’t cut it. It is actually relatively simply to create your own by just using an x86 image of Android. It is also possible to add additional features to the emulator for testing by virtue of daemons installed.
Download Android X86 iso image of choice from http://www.androidx86.org/download
Boot ISO in Hyper Visor of choice. (Android will work in VMWare, VirtualBox and Hyper-V)
Install any GPS, Accelerometer, orientation etc spoof daemons of choice
Android Debugger Bridge (ADB)
Once Android is booted (first time), run terminal (on Android) and issue commands below
o setprop service.adb.tcp.port 5555
o stop adbd
o start adbd
o or adb tcpip 5555
From the development PC (issue commands via CMD – adb can be found in platform-tools folder in you Android SDK folder):
o adb connect [Android emulator ip address]
If the ip not known from Android terminal command: (busybox ifconfig) Connect as normal from Visual Studio. Should appear as Hyper Visor name, ie VMWare etc
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:
Happy Xamarin Coding!
For creating a test OSX environment, it is possible to run it within a virtual machine.
On physical mac
Download OS Mavericks from the App Store
Insert a USB Drive of atleast 8GB
It was a good evening as always at CTXUG. I hope everybody will be inspired to create a ChromeCast, Android TV or SmartTV app. 🙂
I’ve shared the presentation:
https://github.com/apead/CTXUG/tree/2faa7c3b62e61da1552c8993c1f53cdfe36247c9/21082014/presentation
The source code for the ChromeCast sample receiver can be found here:
The source code for the ChromeCast enabled Xamarin app:
https://github.com/apead/CTXUG/tree/2faa7c3b62e61da1552c8993c1f53cdfe36247c9/21082014/source/xamarin
Happy Xamarin Coding!