Xamarin University

In this session we will take Xamarin.Forms, Azure App Services and SignalR to create a full blown messenger app in just 60 minutes.

Patterns, tips and tricks for building solid and delightful connected apps

Learn how the Realm Mobile Platform can help you create offline-first, reactive apps effortlessly. Learn how to create a realtime collaborative app without a single line of backed code.

An introduction and look into the Flux design pattern implemented in Xamarin. What is Flux, why it’s cool, and building our first Xamarin app with Flux.

Using Specflow and BDD to improve your specifications

Join Matthew Robbins, creator of MFractor, and learn to build custom tooling for Xamarin Studio by creating your own addin.

Learn how to extend Xamarin mobile applications to build intelligent search experiences

Apple doesn't provide any way to interact with their App Store programmatically and Google doesn't provide a command line interface, which means releasing software can be a pain, releases don't happen as often as it should, and something frequently goes wrong because humans are involved. In this lecture, we find a solution to this very problem and other everyday tedious tasks, such as developer certificate provisioning and code signing by using the popular http://Fastlane.tools framework.

Discover how using reactive extensions and ReactiveUI can help you build applications that are easier to maintain and understand. Join us as we provide a brief introduction to the ReactiveUI framework and then dive into real-world examples of how you can start using it today.

UrhoSharp seamlessly integrates the Urho3D game engine into Xamarin apps, giving you access to a full-featured 2D and 3D game engine with a modern component-based architecture and a comprehensive feature set. This introduction will show you how easy it is to write games with Urho, and how to use it to integrate powerful, first-class 3D visualization capabilities into your mobile applications.

Build adaptive UIs that scale across iPhones, Android tablets and Windows PCs while reusing as much code as possible.

With the acquisition of Xamarin and HockeyApp, Microsoft now has everything they need to offer you a very complete and awesome Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline. In this guest lecture we will look at setting up your own CI/CD process with the use of Visual Studio Team Services and HockeyApp completely for free.

Learn about the features and advantages of using FreshMvvm, a Mvvm Framework designed specifically for Xamarin.Forms, to encourage building maintainable apps.

Realm is a mobile database, similar to SQLite. It works for Xamarin Android and iOS. This lecture will give you an introduction to how to use it and what makes it different.

Discover how to set up a project from scratch with MvvmCross and Xamarin! Learn about best practices in cross-platform development to enable you to deliver the highest quality Apps.

With the release of Windows 10, learn to set up a Xamarin.Forms app to take advantage of the support for Windows UWP. We’ll cover available features and some pitfalls that may be encountered, while focusing on leveraging Visual Studio 2015 and Xamarin to make your apps truly universal across all mobile platforms.

Learn the ins and outs of your user's inner purchasing thoughts to monetize and build a business out of your mobile applications.

Learn about UI enhancement tips and tricks to build a polished and production-ready Xamarin.Forms apps.

Learn how to leverage Prism to create well-structured and maintainable Xamarin.Forms applications while using common design patterns and practices such as MvvM, dependency injection, commands, event aggregation, and more.

Learn what DevOps for mobile apps is all about, and how the right combination of people, process, and tools can make it worth caring about.

Stop worrying and start analyzing. Understand the need for analytics, discover how to add support for analytic providers such as Google Analytics and Xamarin.Insights, and learn tips and tricks to easily get up and running.

Join MvvM Light's creator for a rich session about this very popular toolkit, and how it can benefit your applications and speed up your work.

Learn how to design and develop beautiful and modern cross-platform mobile user interfaces with Xamarin.Forms and graphics editor.

Looking to get started testing your apps but you're not sure where to start? In this session, we'll take a tour through a variety of approaches to testing, including cross-platform unit tests, automated UI tests, and more.

Learn how Xamarin.Forms can be a powerful tool for quickly prototyping applications that run natively on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone.

Learn how easy it is to extend Xamarin.Forms with custom renderers, allowing you full access and control over the native renderings of Xamarin.Forms controls.

Easily access common native APIs from your shared code projects with Plugins for Xamarin. Discover what Plugins for Xamarin are, how they work, and how you can create your very own.

Learn how to add Couchbase Lite to a Xamarin app, work the API for local storage, and sync via the Sync Gateway. Also learn about the new Couchbase Mobile 1.1. features.

Microsoft Azure Mobile Services provides a straightforward way to expose backend data to multiple apps on multiple devices. Learn how to expose cloud data access and other processes via a REST interface and connect to that data from your Xamarin app.

Discover salient points of platform-independent, user-centric mobile UX design: personas, stories, sketching, and user testing.

Interested in moving your ASP.NET application to mobile? Learn how to reuse views and models to create phone applications in Xamarin.

Thinking about porting apps from Windows and Windows Phone to Xamarin.Forms, so they can truly be called universal apps? See how one such app was ported and what was involved in doing so.

Come learn all about iBeacons and Estimote's new Stickers and how they can bring context awareness to your iOS and Android apps.

Discover how Reactive Extensions for .NET is a powerful library that can simplify your apps. Learn how to use it alongside C# 5.0’s async/await feature in order to write performant, async applications while still being easily testable.

Join Jason Smith, creator of Xamarin.Forms for a town-hall style meeting, where you can ask him questions abut Xamarin.Forms. Curious about the what's coming up next/roadmap? Ask him. Have a tough custom renderer question? Throw it at him. We'll have him for exclusively available to Xamarin University students to chat and commiserate.

Learn about 2D game development with CocosSharp. Review the basics of 2D cross-platform game development including sprites, particle systems, animation, effects, audio, and physics. Learn how to go from a new project to a basic cross-platform game, while exploring various aspects of the CocosSharp API.

Xamarin.Forms 1.3 introduces styles, triggers, and behaviors - new XAML features for responding to property changes and events. Explore the details of these new features and the bigger picture of XAML-based development.