Sadly, the May 3rd seminar on Xamarin.Mobile will need to be postponed due to Mike Bluestein not being able to talk due to a dental issue. The other two May seminars will go ahead as planned and we will have the Xamarin.Mobile seminar as the first seminar of our June Xamarin Seminars. Sorry for the [...]
May is going to deliver a bumper crop of Xamarin Seminars, as we have three seminars lined up covering topics on getting started with the Xamarin tools and the Xamarin Mobile APIs: Thursday 3rd May 2012 at 11am EDT – Xamarin.Mobile, Accessing Unified Cross-platform Features with Mike Bluestein Thursday 17th May 2012 at 11am EDT – Getting Started using Mono [...]
Last week we were lucky enough to have our second community speaker, Greg Shackles, present his Xamarin Seminar on Cross-platform Mobile Development with C# and .NET. Greg walks us through the different approaches to developing native applications using C# and .NET for iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7, and highlights the key things to look out [...]
On April 5th, we had Dean Ellis, a core developer on the MonoGame project, as the first Xamarin Seminar speaker from our community. Dean gives us an overview of MonoGame, including how you can create your own games for MonoTouch and Mono for Android (as well as Windows, Mac OS X and Linux) while taking advantage of existing [...]
Last Thursday, we had Craig Dunn from our Xamarin documentation team walk us through how to use iCloud functionality within your MonoTouch applications on iOS 5.0. Craig shows us how set up your devices to use iCloud, how you can use the iCloud Key-Value Storage and iCloud Document Storage functionality of iCloud and general backup [...]
Today we are announcing topics for our April seminars, this month features our first community speakers so it’s great to have them present for us: Thursday 5th April 2012 at 11am EST – Overview of MonoGame with MonoGame contributor, Dean Ellis Thursday 19th April 2012 at 11am EDT – Cross-platform Mobile Development with O’Reilly author, Greg Shackles Registration is open for the April Xamarin [...]
For the fourth Xamarin Seminar, Mike Bluestein walked us through a few of the new features of MonoTouch 5.2, and how you can take advantage of them when you are creating MonoTouch applications. The seminar shows how to quickly build applications with MonoTouch.Dialog by generating native UI from JSON, and how to unit test your [...]
With three great Xamarin Seminars out the door, it looks like the series is only going to keep getting better. Today we are announcing topics for our March seminars: Thursday 8th March 2012 at 11am EST – MonoTouch 5.2 with Mike Bluestein Thursday 22nd March 2012 at 11am EDT – Using iCloud with MonoTouch with Craig Dunn Registration is [...]
As part of the Xamarin Seminars, last Thursday we had James Clancey present on using popular third party libraries with MonoTouch and Mono for Android. This seminar focused on using the following libraries as part of binding to Objective-C static libraries for MonoTouch; Flurry Analytics ATMHud Facebook The seminar also goes through using several .NET [...]
Yesterday evening, we released MonoTouch 5.2.5 and MonoDevelop 2.8.6.5 with support for Xcode 4.3 to our beta channel. This enables you to have Xcode 4.3 installed in the Applications folder and continue to use MonoTouch. Since Xcode 4.3 takes with it a few command line tools and relocates them, MonoTouch 5.2.5 and MonoDevelop 2.8.6.5 are [...]