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2014-10-24 Thread 低格雷格
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Re: Opinions sought on Xamarin

2014-10-24 Thread Michael Ridland
In regards to a sample app, Xamarin has a huge amount on their github and docs website. The Store app is a good sample, https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-store-app But I can't think of a production app that's opensource. Actually just found this

Re: Opinions sought on Xamarin

2014-10-24 Thread Michael Ridland
Man that Droid emulator sucks, try Geny motion it's a better emulator. Yes you pay for Xamarin, but think about the other side of that. The more money they make the more money they have to build better tools, and you don't want your product vendor in financial difficulties. The trial is great as

Re: Opinions sought on Xamarin

2014-10-24 Thread Greg Keogh
Xamarin certainly is the hottest thing on the plate recently, popping up in news and discussions everywhere. I feel compelled to become familiar with it just to keep myself viable. Last April I downloaded and fired-up the full Android SDK but despite several hours of suffering I couldn't even get t

Re: Opinions sought on Xamarin

2014-10-24 Thread William Luu
There's a free preview of a Xamarin Forms book being written by Charles Petzold if anyone is interested -  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2014/10/06/free-ebook-creating-mobile-apps-with-xamarin-forms-preview-edition.aspx   — Sent from Mailbox On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Mic

Re: Opinions sought on Xamarin

2014-10-24 Thread Wallace Turner
>Get someone who's been in the trenches to show you how to layout a solution or study open source code. Can you (or anyone) suggest a good open source project done in Xamarin ? On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Geoffrey Huntley wrote: > @rid00z is right on the money. > > Xamarin makes perfect sen

Re: Opinions sought on Xamarin

2014-10-24 Thread Geoffrey Huntley
@rid00z is right on the money. Xamarin makes perfect sense in the enterprise market and allows the existing base of .NET developers to become mobile developers as long as they are not completely clueless (ie: SOLID fundamentals/DI/IoC/Interfaces) Business sense due to code sharing and being abl