At the Queensland C# Mobile Developers meetup group's May 2019 Meetup, I gave a talk on the recently announced Mono interpreter and mixed-mode execution support for Xamarin.iOS entitled "Practical (and not so practical) Uses for the New Mono Interpre…
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DumpEditable - an extensible inline object editor extension for LINQPad
It's no secret that a big fan of LINQPad. Though I originally started out using it for data manipulation and visualisation in a previous life, over time my LINQPad queries have become more and more sophisticated, with high levels of interactivity and…
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Xamarin Forms 4.0 Challenge Submissions
Over the last month or two, Xamarin has run two challenges involving completing small tasks with upcoming Xamarin.Forms 4 features - the Visual Challenge and the CollectionView Challenge. As a relatively staunch "Xamarin Native" developer that finds …
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Introduction to ARKit (Video)
At the Melbourne Xamarin Meetup April 2019 Meetup, I gave a third (!) rendition of my talk from last year on ARKit - Apple's Augmented Reality (AR) - framework for mobile. You can see more about the original talk on my earlier post. This time the mee…
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Hot Reloading iOS "Device-Only" features with the new Mono Interpreter
As you may have read, the Xamarin team recently announced the release of a preview of the new Mono interpreter integrated with Xamarin.iOS. The new interpreter has been long anticipated - Miguel hinted at its revival on the Mono blog in late 2017 - a…
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How Not to Translate a Videogame
At the Brisbane Azure Users Group's March 2019 Meetup, I gave a presentation entitled 'How Not to Translate a Videogame'. The talk explored the application of automated realtime text detection, recognition and machine translation techniques to the tr…
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Introduction to ARKit (Redux)
At the Sydney Mobile .Net Developers February 2019 Meetup, I gave another rendition of my talk from last year on ARKit - Apple's Augmented Reality (AR) - framework for mobile. You can see more about the original talk on my earlier post. To keep it fr…
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Xamarin.Essentials.Interfaces released
Nestled amongst the impressive number of announcements related to Xamarin made during Microsoft Connect was the anticipated GA of Xamarin.Essentials. Since Essentials is no longer in preview, I've also moved my interfaces autogeneration experiment ou…
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Introduction to ARKit
At the Queensland C# Mobile Developers meetup group's final meetup for 2018, I gave a talk on ARKit - Apple's Augmented Reality (AR) - framework for mobile, ARKit, and how you to use it with Xamarin.iOS apps, The presentation included: a high level o…
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Starting out right with Xamarin (2018 Edition)
At the Queensland C# Mobile Developers meetup group's September event, I gave an updated version of my 'Starting out right with Xamarin' presentation from 2015. Since the last iteration, quite a lot has changed in the Xamarin space but many of the pr…