Re: [Advice] Xamarin as a next step.

2017-03-16 Thread Scott Barnes
I will one day get off my butt and do a "Silverlight dev to Unity3D" video to show how the two are very very similar in so many ways. One...day.. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Go Unity3D... >> > >

Re: [Advice] Xamarin as a next step.

2017-03-15 Thread Greg Keogh
> > Go Unity3D... > Wow, wouldn't that be like using a supercollider to recharge your phone battery? However in these strange times, who knows?! It's worth reading about Unity3D anyway as general knowledge -- *GK*

Re: [Advice] Xamarin as a next step.

2017-03-15 Thread Scott Barnes
meh to Xamarin... you're too constrained imho. Go Unity3D... - You have 100% control over your entire UI without forking projects per "platform" - You can use things like LightningDB instead of SQL Lite (we've got 800k records that we constantly "search" records on and it does in ms speeds) -

Re: [Advice] Xamarin as a next step.

2017-03-14 Thread David Richards
+1 (Except it's been 36 years for me) I'll add an interesting anecdote... I had a Xamarin Forms application keep crashing for no obvious reason and no logged error. After about a week of frustration, I discovered it would crash if you tried to show a button in a list view item and the button

Re: [Advice] Xamarin as a next step.

2017-03-13 Thread Greg Keogh
> > My manager now wants me to learn Xamarin, but I don't feel confortable > doing mobile apps etc. > How stable is the technology, should I buckle down and learn it, or should > I start looking for another job? > Cough! In the 37 years that I've been writing software, I can tell you without a

Re: [Advice] Xamarin as a next step.

2017-03-13 Thread DotNet Dude
They're all unstable except for c# and sql lol. I'd accept the challenge On Tuesday, 14 March 2017, David Rhys Jones wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently working on Web aps, using javascript / angular / c# back > ends with sql. > > I've been doing c# since it was in beta 1,

[Advice] Xamarin as a next step.

2017-03-13 Thread David Rhys Jones
Hi, I'm currently working on Web aps, using javascript / angular / c# back ends with sql. I've been doing c# since it was in beta 1, javascript since the last centurary and angular since monday ;-) My manager now wants me to learn Xamarin, but I don't feel confortable doing mobile apps etc.