New Xamarin.Forms Articles

I have recently published two articles on Xamarin.Forms:

Using Native Platform Features in Xamarin.Forms Through DependencyService
Xamarin.Forms is platform-agnostic, and your single code base will work on all platforms. But if you want to perform platform-specific operations, you need to do some work, as Wei-Meng Lee shows.

Providing Location Service Using DependencyService in Xamarin.Forms
When your app needs to work with location information, the code that requests and then handles the user's latitude and longitude shouldn't be affected by the platform of that device. Wei-Meng Lee shows how to use Xamarin.Forms to take advantage of each platform's native features to provide location services.

To learn more about Xamarin.Forms, join us in the upcoming course on Xamarin.Forms Programming:

MOB104 Writing Cross Platform iOS and Android Apps using Xamarin.Forms and C# (S$799)

Course Fee

S$799 (nett; no GST)

If your company is sponsoring you for the training, your company can enjoy 400% tax deductions/ allowances and/or 60% cash payout for investment in innovation and productivity improvements under the Productivity and Innovation Credit (PIC) scheme. For more details, check out the Productivity and Innovation Credit page. 

Schedules

Start Date	End Date	Details	Category
Wed Sep 23 2015 CONFIRMED	Wed Sep 23 2015	PDF

Venue

Bayview Hotel Singapore
30 Bencoolen Street
Singapore 189621 

New Xamarin Courses!

Due to the popular demand of the Xamarin courses, I have decided to redesign the courses so that they can better fit the needs of developers:

1. MOB102 - 1-Day Writing iOS Apps using Xamarin and C# - S$799
Who should attend?
Developers who are primarily interested in leveraging their C# skill set to build iOS apps. Developers will learn how to encapsulate their business logic in separate DLLs and use them in their iOS apps. DLLs can also be reused in Android apps.

2. MOB103 - 1-Day Writing Android Apps using Xamarin and C# - S$799
Who should attend?
Developers who are primarily interested in leveraging their C# skill set to build Android apps. Developers will learn how to encapsulate their business logic in separate DLLs and use them in their Android apps. DLLs can also be reused in iOS apps.

3. MOB104 - 1-Day Writing Cross Platform iOS and Android Apps using Xamarin.Forms and C# - S$799
Who should attend?
Developers who want to write apps that target Android and iOS platforms. Using a common set of UI elements from Xamarin.Forms, developers will be able to write their apps and run them on iOS and Android devices.

Developers who are interested to develop cross platform mobile apps are strongly advised to take the three courses. Participants who register for the three courses can enjoy a discount course fee of S$2,000 for the three courses. 

Article - Getting Started with Xamarin Forms

• By Wei-Meng Lee
• Feb 4, 2015

With the Xamarin.Forms API, a single user interface can work on three different platforms: iOS, Android, and Windows Phone - a huge savings in code writing! Wei-Meng Lee provides examples for working with Xamarin.Forms, showing the kinds of navigation your interfaces can use on the individual platforms.

While Xamarin is a dream come true for developers planning to build cross-platform apps for the iOS, Android, and Windows Phone platforms, maintaining different user interface code is still a pain for most developers. Although a significant part of the app logic can be written once and reused for multiple platforms, developers still have had to code separately for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone.

Not anymore. In May 2014 Xamarin introduced the Xamarin.Forms API, which allows developers to build shared screens for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. Using the Xamarin.Forms API, you can create a single code base for your user interface, and Xamarin will automatically translate it into the native UI elements for each platform that you're targeting.

In this article, I'll help you get started with Xamarin.Forms by creating different pages using the various classes available in the API.

Want to learn more about Xamarin? Attend the MOB101 - Writing Cross Platform iOS and Android Apps using Xamarin and C# course.

Course Fee

S$1297 (nett; no GST)

If your company is sponsoring you for the training, your company can enjoy 400% tax deductions/ allowances and/or 60% cash payout for investment in innovation and productivity improvements under the Productivity and Innovation Credit (PIC) scheme. For more details, check out the Productivity and Innovation Credit page. 

Schedules

Start Date	End Date	Details	Category
Mon Mar 30 2015	Tue Mar 31 2015	PDF

Venue

Bayview Hotel Singapore
30 Bencoolen Street
Singapore 189621  

If your company requires in-house training, you can contact us to customize the topics to meet your training requirements. We train worldwide! We have conducted customized classes in the United States, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Thailand.

Course Schedule for Xamarin Courses - Aug to Sep 2013

Check out the course outline and details here. 

First Training Provider to Provide Xamarin Studio Training in Singapore

I am super excited to announce that Developer Learning Solutions is the first training provider to provide training on Xamarin Studio in Singapore. If you would like to learn how to create cross platform Android and iOS apps using C#, join us this Wednesday to Friday (19-21 June 2013) for the inaugural run of the course! Hope to see you there!