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

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

2. Agenda
• News
• New Xamarin Component Announcements
• Alex Blount
• Updating Xamarin.iOS Projects to the new Universal APIs
• David Dancy
• Open discussion and planning
• Suggest future topics
• Put yourself forwards as a speaker, or nominate some else
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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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4. #SydMobNet
Sponsors

5. News
• Xamarin.iOS 8.6 now in the stable channel
– Includes Unified APIs
– http://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin.ios-unified-api-with-64-bit-support/
• Apple Date Announcements
– 1st Feb: All new iOS apps must include 64-bit support and use Unified API
– 1st June: All new and existing iOS apps and updates must include 64-bit support and use
Unified API
– https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=12172014b
• Microsoft Coding Event for kids / schools
– MS are after volunteers to help out. Let me know if you’re interested.
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6. New Xamarin Components
Alex Blount
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iOS Paging View
https://components.Xamarin.com/view/paging-view
iOS Notification Hub
https://components.xamarin.com/view/notification-hub
iOS Slide Down Menu
https://components.xamarin.com/view/slide-down-menu
iOS Haneke
https://components.Xamarin.com/view/haneke

7. Xamarin.iOS and the Unified API
David Dancy
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8. Planning for 2015
• New topic suggestions
• Feedback on level of presentations – introduction vs deep dive
• More presentations on subjects already covered
• Speaker suggestions
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9. 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
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