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!
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
https://www.meetup.com/Cape-Town-Xamarin-Users-Group/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gxugsa
https://www.meetup.com/Gauteng-Xamarin-User-Group
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DXUGSA
https://www.meetup.com/Durban-Xamarin-User-Group/
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 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/
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
Hope to see you there!
Update
The content is available here: https://github.com/apead/XUGSABuildAutomation
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!