Register, walk-in

60 mins

Welcome talk/introduction

15 mins

Jim Bennett

Keynote by Jim Bennett: Xamarin, past, present and future

45 mins

Jim Bennett

Martijn van Dijk

Martijn van Dijk: Mobile architecture with MvvmCross, are you doing it right?

In this session I will deep dive into architecture of a mobile app using Xamarin. From the lessons learnt when building MvvmCross I will explain and give tips about building a solution that will last longer than tomorrow. Thinking about the whole picture instead of just some code will make your apps stand out, perform, and look better than others!

45 mins

Martijn van Dijk

Almir Vuk

Almir Vuk: Application Indexing and Deep Linking in Xamarin.Forms apps

Xamarin.Forms with the application indexing feature allows apps that would otherwise be forgotten after a few uses to stay relevant by appearing in search results. Another great feature which will be covered in this session is "deep linking" which allows applications to respond to a search result that contains application data, typically by navigating to a page referenced from a deep link. This session has a goal of explaining and demonstrating how to use the application indexing and deep linking features to make Xamarin.Forms apps content more searchable and more accessible on iOS and Android devices. See you at the session!

50 mins

Almir Vuk

Lunch

65 mins

Mike James

Mike James: No Code backend with App Center

Visual Studio App Center allows developers to ship better apps through a suit of functions including automated builds, testing, crash and analytics reporting as well as push notifications. I’ll quickly cover these existing features before moving onto to showing two new preview features released earlier this year; authentication and data. The addition of Authentication and Data  to App Center takes it from a DevOps tool to a fully fledge Mobile Backend as a Service! This session has been created to help you understand you can get started with the new features in the context of Xamarin.Forms. I’ll also show how you can extend the functionality through Azure Logic Apps to create a global scale backend with zero lines of code. As experts, I’d love to hear your feedback as we look to add new features and functionality to App Center.

45 mins

Mike James

Dennie Declercq

Dennie Declercq: Improve People with disabilities’ lives with Xamarin.Essentials

This talk is for the makers! For the makers who are making apps for people with disabilities. Apps to give quality of life to people who aren't used to be using a smartphone. In this talk, we are going to focus on how Xamarin.Essentials can make developing accessible apps much easier. Xamarin.Essentials is a NuGet package you can download and use in combination with Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.iOS, and Xamarin.Forms. This is going to be an awesome session that combines technical stiff and non-technical "social care".

45 mins

Dennie Declercq

Ulrike Stirnweiß & Sia Ghassemi

Ulrike Stirnweiß & Sia Ghassemi: Beyond Accessibility

Our physical, mental and cognitive abilities are constantly changing on our way of life - be it temporary or long term. That's why accessibility is not only relevant for people with handicaps, but sooner or later it will affect each one of us. Using the latest technologies makes it easier than ever to create solutions that enable the participation of all. An app for everyone does not mean to look for the lowest common denominator to satisfy as many as possible. People with handicaps have special needs for UIs, be it screen reader usability or font size customization, so they can use them at all. Xamarin uses a proven WPF technology "Visual States" so that the individual needs for surfaces can also be implemented within one app. Let us find out how we can make apps more accessible.

45 mins

Ulrike Stirnweiß & Sia Ghassemi

Coffee break

30 min

Sven-Michael Stübe

Sven-Michael Stübe: C# 8 Introduction – All your nulls belong to us

Together with Visual Studio 2019, C# 8.0 was released. We will have a look at the new language features and discuss where to go from here and if they can be useful in your daily work. Features that will be covered: - Nullable reference types (+ deep dive) - What has changed? - Migrating your existing code to non-nullable reference types - How does it work internally? - IAsyncEnumerable - Default Interface Implementations - Indices and ranges - Implicit typed new expression - Pattern matching enhancements If some time is left: - Using declarations - Static local functions

45 mins

Sven-Michael Stübe

Robin-Manuel Thiel

Robin-Manuel Thiel: Continuous Everything with Azure DevOps

A deep dive into setting up a real-world end-to-end CI/CD pipeline for your mobile apps for free! You want to trigger a cloud build just by checking-in to the master branch? Great, let's talk about Azure DevOps for Xamarin! Starting with automated Builds, over to triggering UI Tests on real devices and finally releasing in multiple stages to Testers first and the App Stores afterward. All, using the new Azure DevOps services.

45 mins

Robin-Manuel Thiel

Closing

20 mins

Socializing and drinks 🍻 (outside of MS office!)

For some more socializing and drinks we have to move to a different location because the Microsoft office is closing at 18h sharp! Please join us at the nearby Beer garten: Gaststaätte Nord Ost 26 Leopoldstraße 244A, 80807 München 089 35003872