An introduction to Xamarin, Visual Studio Team Services and Cognitive Services with examples.

1. Zero to Mobile
Hero
Intro to Xamarin, VSTS and
Cognitive Services
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4. Mobile Development with Xamarin
Traditional Xamarin Approach Xamarin.Forms
Shared UI Code
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How?

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8. Demo
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9. Intro to VSTS
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10. Demo of VSTS
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11. VSTS Pro..
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12. What is Cognitive Services?
• “Microsoft Cognitive Services (formerly Project Oxford) are a
set of APIs, SDKs and services available to developers to
make their applications more intelligent, engaging and
discoverable” – Microsoft Docs
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13. What does that even mean?
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14. Demo – Body Language Assistant
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15. Amazing Examples
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16. Summary
• Learnt what Xamarin is
• How to get started
• Deploy to VSTS for CI
• Saw examples in two languages
• Discovered using cloud computing on Azure with Cognitive
Services to do cool stuff
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17. Useful Links
• aka.ms/xamdocs – Xamarin Documentation
• university.xamarin.com - (free 30-day trial with full access to
all features plus loads of free content)
• aka.ms/TryCogServices - Get started
• portal.azure.com – Azure Portal for all things Azure
• bit.ly/2McV2NH – Book on Xamarin.Forms
• xam.jbb.io - Book on Traditional Xamarin
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18. Thank You
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