Presentation from April's meetup of the Sydney Mobile .Net Developers Group (http://www.meetup.com/SydneyMobileDotNetDevelopers/)

1. Sydney Mobile .Net
Developers
Build, Learn, Publish – an Update from Build 2014
Cross Platform Visual State Management
Alec Tucker
Head of Mobile Product Development, APAC
White Clarke Group

2. Agenda
• Introductions
• News
• Build, Learn, Publish – Nick Randolph
• Cross Platform Visual State Management – Nick Randolph
• Special guest star: Craig Dunn from Xamarin San Francisco
• Group Details
• http://xamarin.meetup.com/
• http://www.meetup.com/SydneyMobileDotNetDevelopers/

3. …interspersed with food,and raffles for…
• Xamarin
• Monkey
• Pen
• Nokia
• 2 x key ring bottle openers
• Pluralsight
• 2 x 1 month subscription
• 1 x T-shirt
• Mindscape
• $50 vouchers
• 1 x Phone Elements licence

4. • Sign up at xamarin.com/university
• Learn to build native iOS, Android, and Windows
apps with C# in just 30 days.
• Live online, interactive classes with live coding.
• Labs with full source code solutions.
• Nearly 600 pages of curriculum documentation.
• Access to Xamarin Certified Developer exam.

5. Leaders in Finance Technology

7. components.xamarin.com

8. News
• Group membership passes 70
• Xamarin Evolve Tickets on sale
• Build Updates – coming next
• Meetup date changing to the SECOND Tuesday of the month – next meetup
will be on the 13th of May. Topic TBA…
• Updated code from the last session on Cross Platform Azure Mobile
Services with Xamarin and corresponding blog post will be published
shortly

9. • A quick lap around the announcements from BUILD 2014 as they
apply to the Windows platform, and some information on the
upcoming community events here in Australia
Build 2014

10. • Blend for Visual Studio makes it easy to define visual states for
Windows platform applications. In this session you’ll learn the
basics of declaring and using visual states in XAML based
applications. You’ll see that you can do visual state management
within your view model, making it possible to reuse the same
logic across multiple platforms.
Cross Platform Visual State Management

11. Guest Star – Craig Dunn

12. Questions / Discussion / Food

13. Contact Details / References
Group
http://www.meetup.com/SydneyMobileDot
NetDevelopers/
Xamarin
www.xamarin.com
MvvmCross
Slodge.blogspot.co.uk
UX Design Guidelines
Apple
https://developer.apple.com/library
/ios/documentation/userexperience
/conceptual/mobilehig/
Android
https://developer.android.com/desi
gn/index.html
Windows Phone
http://dev.windowsphone.com/en-
us/design/principles
Further Contacts
Nick Randolph
nick@builttoroam.com
@BTRoam
Craig Dunn
craig@xamarin.com
@conceptdev
Alec Tucker
atucker@whiteclarkegroup.com
@alecdtucker