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Presentation on MonkeyFest

This year i didn’t had the change to go to Singapore for MonkeyFest but i still did a presentation via Skype : “What’s new on Xamarin.Forms”

Some of the most important points were related with the performance improvments like Fast Renderers and Layout Compression, you can check the slides and notes below.

What’s new in Xamarin.Forms from Rui Marinho

NOTES:

Fast Renderers

Enable fast renderes on your Android app

Forms.SetFlags(“FastRenderers_Experimental”)

LayoutCompression

Enable compressed layout on your layouts using the attached property

CompressedLayout.IsHeadless=”true”

GTK

Getting Started – https://github.com/jsuarezruiz/forms-gtk-progress
Known issues – https://github.com/jsuarezruiz/forms-gtk-progress/blob/master/Issues-Pending.md

– Create new Class library

[STAThread]
static void Main(string[] args)
{
    global::Gtk.Application.Init();
    Forms.Init();
    var app = new App();
    var window = new FormsWindow();
    window.LoadApplication(app);
    window.SetApplicationTitle(“MonkeyFest”);
    window.Show();
    global::Gtk.Application.Run();
}
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My first public presentation about Xamarin : SqlSaturday #341 Oporto

It’s with great excitement that i announce  i m going  to be making my first presentation on a public event.
Earlier this month i was invited to submit a session for the Programming track of the SQLSaturday #341 event taking place in Oporto on the 18th October. The session was chosen by the community to be featured on the event 🙂

I will be presenting “Build mobile applications with Xamarin Forms” , it will be a light talk where i will introduce Xamarin and talk a little more about a new xamarin prodcut suite called Xamarin Forms followed up by a short demo.

The event is taking place at ISEP, and i m still to sure it will be streamed or recorded.


SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. This event will be held Oct 18 2014 at Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 , Porto, 4200-072, Portugal. Admittance to this event is free, all costs are covered by donations and sponsorships. Please register soon as seating is limited, and let friends and colleagues know about the event.

Make sure to register for the event here. Hope to see you there.

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Introducing Xamarin Forms Labs

Last month Xamarin presented Xamarin 3.0, a refresh on the Xamarin suite of tools to build cross platform apps with C#. There were 4 major announcements but i personally got really excited by the new library Xamarin.Forms … The basics were all there, but we had found holes the Xamarin.Forms team had not found or not plugged yet. So I started a repository on GitHub called Xamarin.Forms.Toolkit and this thread on the forum. The idea was to work on a common toolkit tailored for the brand new Xamarin.Forms.

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