Agenda slides and contact details from the February 2015 meetup of the Sydney Mobile .Net Developers group (the Xamarin user group)

1. Sydney Mobile .Net
Developers (#SydMobNet)
February 2015
Alec Tucker
Head of Mobile Product Development, APAC
White Clarke Group

2. Agenda
• News
• A Slimmer, Leaner, Faster App Using the new Graphic Class!
• David Dancy
• The Art of Laziness – Using Objective Sharpie to let the iOS Developer
Community Build Your Apps for You
• Alex Blount
• A Pizza Celebration
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3. …interspersed with food and raffles for…
• Xamarin
• Monkeys
• T-shirt
• Pluralsight
• 2 x 1 month subscription
• Mindscape
• $50 vouchers
• Oz-Code
• Licence
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• Alphatise
• T-shirt
• Bluetooth speaker

4. #SydMobNet
Sponsors

5. News
• #SydMobNet is one year old!
• Xamarin WatchKit Preview 2 is available
– http://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/32552/introducing-watchkit-preview-2
• BusinessInsider.com – 26 Enterprise Startups to Bet Your Carreer on in 2015
– Xamarin and Couchbase both listed
• AppAnnie Report on App Trends
– http://blog.appannie.com/app-annie-index-retrospective-2014/
– Google Play: 60% more worldwide downloads than iOS
– Apple: Over 70% more yearly app revenue that Google Play
– Top 4 apps (Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram) all owned by Facebook
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6. A Slimmer, Leaner, Faster App Using the new
Graphic Class!
David Dancy
#SydMobNet

7. The Art of Laziness
Alex Blount
#SydMobNet

8. Contact Details / References
Group
• http://www.meetup.com/SydneyMobileDotNetDevelopers/
Xamarin
• www.xamarin.com
• evolve.xamarin.com
• university.xamarin.com
Microsoft
• www.lalaninja.com.au
• dvlup.com
• wp.msdeveloper.com.au
Further Contacts
David Dancy
• @4dexpert
• www.programmation.com.au
• david@programmation.com.au
Alex Blount
• @AlexBlount
• alexblount.co
Alec Tucker
• atucker@whiteclarkegroup.com
• @alecdtucker
• blog.alectucker.com
• linkedin.com/in/alectucker
#SydMobNet