Haven't blogged in a while because most of the issues and problems we've solved at work lately are already well documented at StackOverflow and elsewhere on the web. And then there's this week. I have lots to talk about because work has been very kind to send me and a coworker to
Visual Studio Live! here in Austin!
Monday was all day workshops. We chose
Building Modern Mobile Apps with Brent Edwards and Kevin Ford. Fantastic session with a massive amount of great information, but it was a long exhausting day. The workshop format involved taking an example app and building/testing/deploying it in a variety of ways, explaining the details and pros/cons of each:
- Responsive web app
- Native Android - Java, Android SDK, emulator, ADB deploy tool, Gradle, etc.
- Native iOS - XCode, Swift / Objective C, provisioning profiles, etc.
- Apache Cordova
- Xamarin native
- Xamarin Forms
My takeaway for the day was that for my organization and our current infrastructure and skill set, Responsive Web App or Xamarin Forms will be the best ways for us to go forward into the mobile space. Really made me feel good about my current WPF project too. XAML appears to be a resume-friendly skill.
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