Syncfusion sponsored another Xamarin
Dev Days event at Hablis Hotel in Chennai to showcase how developers can build
cross-platform native UIs and provide attendees with a focused, hands-on
learning experience. About 60 developers attended the event.
Harikrishnan of Syncfusion introduced
Xamarin. He spoke about how Visual Studio is well integrated with Xamarin and
other platforms, basic environment setup, native Android and OS mobile
development using Xamarin, architecting mobile apps, simplifying development,
plugins, and how to deploy images using cognitive services.
Rohit Vipin Matthews, an associate
technical architect at CES challenged why they should try Xamarin, and
explained the basics of Xamarin, cross-platform native UIs with Xamarin.Forms,
latest and greatest in Xamarin.Forms, and the future of Xamarin.
Nish Anil, senior program manager for
Xamarin at Microsoft, began the session with connected and disconnected apps
with Azure Mobile Apps. He challenged the developers to develop native apps
that stand out and keep the attention of the users.
He talked about the importance of
Azure Mobile Apps, and told how powerful and flexible it is. He also
explained cross-platform client SDK and open source C#. He showed how to build
a backend, create tables, and how Xamarin supports offline syncing, push notifications
with notification hub, and authentication.
The afternoon session consisted of
hands on lab on connecting mobile apps with Azure with members of Syncfusion’s
technical team assisting the participants. Participants got to work on a new
Xamarin Forms app connected to Azure
The participants had many opinions on
the conference. Here is what they had to say:
Audippa Naidu of CES – “I have been
using Telerik controls so far. Since I have heard a lot of good things about
Syncfusion, I am planning to use Syncfusion controls in future.”
Tony from IBM – “I didn’t expect much
from this event, but this experience was amazing. My key takeaways are
how to use Azure backends, and create sample apps that could take weeks for a set
of developers to provide a prototype. I am going to present my users how to use
the takeaways from today’s event and make it valuable to the customers and my
organization. Thank you guys for organizing this.”
Hina Ahuja OF CES – “I learnt a lot of
new things like mobile app creation with Azure, and that I don’t have to create
apps, but take it and use it efficiently.”
Nayan Jain, student of SRM College – “I
loved it.”
Rajalakshmi, IBM – “This is my first
Dev Days event. It was very good. I have worked with Syncfusion controls.
7 to 8 years back I was working on third-party controls for web app. Now I see
that as I grow, Syncfusion has introduced new controls for Xamarin. This is a
wonderful experience. So far, I have not used native controls and today SF team
showed us a demo live app with various features. We would go for a free trial
and showcase it to my clients. Good job team.”