It has been a few busy months! For the last two months I have been in the air and on the road talking all about cross-platform mobile development with Xamarin, and it has been a blast! Our first leg of Xamarin Dev Days is just about to wrap up and it has been an absolutely amazing experience meeting so many incredible developers. I can’t wait to do it all again very very soon 🙂

Then comes the list of conferences! //Build, Ignite, Chicago Coder Conference, DevIntersection, Twilio Signal, VS Live Austin, and NDC Oslo! I feel as though my goal of being everywhere is mission accomplished! If you weren’t able to attend these events don’t worry as there were several recordings from NDC Oslo now available!

Xamarin.Forms: Native iOS, Android, & Windows apps in C# & XAML

In this session I give a brief overview of Xamarin.Forms and walk through File->New App!

CocosSharp-2D Games in C# that run everywhere

In the past I used to make awesome video games for the Xbox 360 and I am back at it with 2D games in C# with CocosSharp for iOS and Android!

C# and Twilio-powered iOS & Android Experiences!

Check out this session that I delivered at Twilio Signal on integrating amazing Twilio functionality into your mobile apps.

Podcasts!

No time to watch a full video? I gotcha covered with some awesome podcasts that I have been on recently:
Xamarin Podcast: Covering Android M and Google I/O 2015

MS Dev Show: An amazing amazing show covering nearly every single aspect of Xamarin!

Apps!

I have been doing a lot more than just talking as I have also been releasing some updates to apps and some new ones as well. Coffee Filter, my open source coffee finding application is now available on iOS thanks to the work of some Amazing Xamarins (Oleg, Colby, & Aaron). Additionally, I have updated the Android version to add in the amazing new Google App Invites feature! Check that out.

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Xamarin Forms was released a bit more than a year ago. Since then, the product has grown, gone through rounds of features and bug fixes, and feels very much like it’s ready for use in applications. And since then, mobile apps are no longer relegated to one screen. Mobile apps should work on multiple screens of functionality. And even then, users must be able to navigate between screens in a standard way. In this column, I’ll look at how Xamarin Forms can be used to implement the various approaches to navigating on various devices.

Note: In early-to-mid 2014, this column featured articles on standard navigation in iOS and Android, but this column will show how to implement standard navigation with Xamarin.Forms. Also, graphics are not my specialty — please excuse the graphics.

https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2015/06/23/developing-and-selling-apps.aspx

You are a developer.  You are at the top of your game.  You can make bits do magical things over the web.  Your database can run circles around anyone else’s. You’ve got a great job. 

Unfortunately, that job is at a soulless corporation. That company sells widgets that have changed very little in the last 125 years. There is a ceiling for you as a developer at this company. You have users in marketing and production. Some of them you love, some you loathe. You long for something more. 

You hear about people making lots of money by starting product companies, but you aren’t quite sure what you have to do. You watch Silicon Valley on HBO. You hear about this thing called Y Combinator. Then, one day it happens, you hit upon a great idea. It’s something that you see all kinds of need for. What should you do now?