In just under a month some of the biggest names in the Xamarin community will be presenting alongside a prominent members of the Microsoft Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms teams at the Xamarin Developer Summit.
Whilst I’m not going to be able to make it across to the summit I wanted to do a bit call out to all the great sessions that are in the schedule. The summit is a result of the massive effort that Dan Siegel has put in and the support from all the fantastic presenters.
If you scan the schedule you’ll no doubt be familiar with some of the names but with so many great sessions, how do you know where to start. I thought I’d take the opportunity to break the sessions into some groups to help you decide what’s of interest. These are of course just my groups based on what I can gather from the session description.
Getting Started / Overview
- A Glimpse Into the Future of Xamarin – James Montemagno, David Ortinau, Maddy Leger
- What’s New For Xamarin Developers in Visual Studio – Maddy Leger
- Xamarin.Forms on Samsung Wearable and TV products – Jay Cho
- App Center and the Future of Azure Mobile Apps – Patrick Nikoletich
Workshops
- Samsung Workshop
- The Escape Room – Allan Ritchie
- Xamarin.Forms Workshop – Jason Awbrey
Optimisation / Quality
- Speed Up Android Build Times & Shrink APK Sizes – Jonathan Peppers
- Accessibility in Xamarin.Forms – Alexandre Santos Costa
- Your Xamarin application is probably leaking memory and you don’t know it – Dan Ciprian Ardelean
- Xamarin.Forms Localization – Chris Miller
Testing
- Page Object Pattern and UITest Best Practicies – Sweekriti Satpathy
- Unit Testing Prism Apps With Ease – Duane Newman
Mvvm / Architecture
- Xamarin.Forms made better with Prism – Hussain Abbasi
- Streamline & Simplify Events with Reactive Extensions – Shane Neuville
- Rapid Enterprise Architecture Delivery – Paul Schroeder
- Reactive UI and Reactive Extensions for Xamarin.Forms – Michael Stonis
- Mobile architecture with MvvmCross, are you doing it right? – Martijn van Dijk
- Using Xamarin.Forms Shell to easily create a consistent, dynamic, customized, and feature filled UI – Shane Neuville
Security
- Authentication and Authorization for Xamarin apps using ADB2C and MSAL – David Allen
Device
- NFC is Magic – Sean Sparkman
- Backgrounding Like a Boss with Shiny – Allan Ritchie
- Building Xamarin.Android from source – Jonathan Peppers
AI / ML
- Cognitive Services in Xamarin Applications – Veronika Kolesnikova
- Build Smarter Cross-Platform Applications Using Xamarin, Azure Cognitive Services, and ML.NET – Richard Taylor
- How to build your modern ai app with Xamarin – Lo Kinfey
Azure
- Crafting Real-Time Mobile Apps with SignalR – James Montemagno
- Light up Xamarin Apps with ChatBots – Sam Basu
- Build a mobile chatbot with Xamarin & Bot Framework – Luis Beltran
- Build a Media Streaming App With Azure and Xamarin – Matt Soucoup
- Create Mixed Reality Experiences with Azure Spatial Anchors and Xamarin – Sweekriti Satpathy
Data
- To SQL or Not to SQL – Rob Hedgpeth
- Xamarin + GraphQL – Brandon Minnick
Design
- Let’s Make Crazy Beautiful UI With Xamarin.Forms – David Ortinau
- Creating Consistent UI with Xamarin.Forms Visual – David Ortinau
General
- Skills for Successful Xamarin Developers – Dan Siegel
- Thinking outside of the box with Xamarin.Forms – Glenn Versweyveld
- Deliver your Enterprise Xamarin App On-Time and On-Budget – Robin Schroeder
DevOps
- DevOps in Practice – Dan Siegel, Sweekriti Satpathy
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