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On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Michael Ridland rid...@gmail.com wrote:
Nice blog post... but if they had just used Xamarin their job would have
been alot easier.
They wouldn't of had to write their own persistance layer, with
The evangelism aside - xamarin career wise for a .net dev is the smart
money but I have had many conference calls with apple. Microsoft and Google
on this subject and they tend to nudge you in the native direction and only
use these middle ground options with caution
Personally after spending the
@rid00z is right on the money.
Xamarin makes perfect sense in the enterprise market and allows the existing
base of .NET developers to become mobile developers as long as they are not
completely clueless (ie: SOLID fundamentals/DI/IoC/Interfaces)
Business sense due to code sharing and being
There's a free preview of a Xamarin Forms book being written by Charles Petzold
if anyone is interested -
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2014/10/06/free-ebook-creating-mobile-apps-with-xamarin-forms-preview-edition.aspx
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On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 4:40 PM,
Xamarin certainly is the hottest thing on the plate recently, popping up in
news and discussions everywhere. I feel compelled to become familiar with
it just to keep myself viable. Last April I downloaded and fired-up the
full Android SDK but despite several hours of suffering I couldn't even get
Man that Droid emulator sucks, try Geny motion it's a better emulator.
Yes you pay for Xamarin, but think about the other side of that. The more
money they make the more money they have to build better tools, and you
don't want your product vendor in financial difficulties.
The trial is great as
In regards to a sample app, Xamarin has a huge amount on their github and
docs website. The Store app is a good sample,
https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-store-app
But I can't think of a production app that's opensource. Actually just
found this
I've got a bit of free time so I'm starting to play around with mobile
development and getting somewhat bewildered with the options offered.
The dream is to knock up a business style app that will allow persistence
of data to the local database eg. sqlite then a transfer to a base server.
Looked
Go Xamarin it's the best! (Opinion may be bias www.michaelridland.com)
Traditional Xamarin (Native API) as the platform is awesome and solid and
fast, the IDE and some of the tools around it can be a bit buggy.
Xamarin.Forms is pretty early, and can be frustrating but I have build some
XPlat app
... but that said, Xamarin is pretty heavy weight, it's s big learning
curve.. if you want something lightweight and 'pretty' good you should try
out Ionic...
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Michael Ridland rid...@gmail.com wrote:
Go Xamarin it's the best! (Opinion may be bias
http://ionicframework.com/
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Michael Ridland rid...@gmail.com wrote:
... but that said, Xamarin is pretty heavy weight, it's s big learning
curve.. if you want something lightweight and 'pretty' good you should try
out Ionic...
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at
+1 for big leaning curve. Played around with it a bit few years ago then
didn't touch it til a few months ago and I was lost like never before. That
said, the Xamarin people have added so much to it now so stability is
probably much better now
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Michael Ridland
On a related note, Dropbox used C++ for their Android/iOS apps -
http://oleb.net/blog/2014/05/how-dropbox-uses-cplusplus-cross-platform-development/
On 24 October 2014 15:22, Michael Ridland rid...@gmail.com wrote:
http://ionicframework.com/
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Michael Ridland
Nice blog post... but if they had just used Xamarin their job would have
been alot easier.
They wouldn't of had to write their own persistance layer, with Xamarin you
can use the Native SQLite instances. Their serious backend code eg Offline,
Caching, would have been able to use C# and the full
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