XHackers Team: June meetup – Design & Develop

“Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”
? R.L. Stine

It’s June and we, the XHackers are back with a new meetup. We always believe in technical diversity and our meetups also reflect the same. We pick different themes to make you feel as if you are reading a different book every time you join us for a meetup.

To prove our point,In this meetup, we will be talking about technologies and tools which will help a mobile developer in developing cross platform mobile apps using Xamarin and IBM MobileFirst platform. Also we will be touching upon Android design concepts through material design and Android M preview updates.
Material Design

Let’s jump into the schedule

9:30 AM to 10AM – Registration

10 AM to 10:30 AM – IBM keynote by Rajesh K Jeyapaul, Solution Architect-Ecosystem Development

10:30 AM to 11:20 AM – Getting started with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms by Senthil Kumar, Microsoft MVP

11:20 AM to 11:30 AM – Break

11:30 AM to 12:20 PM – Integrating IBM MobileFirst Platform to your Xamarin Apps by Ajay Chebbi, Software Architect/Sr. Engineer – IBM MobileFirst Platform.

12:20 PM to 1:10 PM – Material Design & Android M Updates by Vidyasagar Machupalli, Microsoft MVP

1:10 PM and to 1:30 PM – Q&A/ Networking with Xamarin Experts Nish Anil and Anubhav Ranjan

To be part of this exciting learning,

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See you there!

Cheers
Xhackers Core Team
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