Learning Xamarin–Part 1 Forms

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Jesse Liberty

Today I officially launch my new blog series on learning cross-platform mobile development with Xamarin. 

Xamarin should be perfect for me because

  • I really want to learn iOS and Android programming but don’t want to code in Java or (God help me) Objective-C
  • I have 14 years experience with C# and really like it
  • Xamarin 3 looks amazing
  • Forms! Forms! Forms!
  • My computer is a MacBook Pro running Parallels
  • I have a subscription to Xamarin University, which will ease the way considerably [1]

Forms are particularly appealing as an entry point because they use XAML and C#, which allows me to dig into my muscle memory from days gone by when I coded for Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone.  So that is where I’ll start.  Continued…

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About Jesse Liberty

** Note ** Jesse is currently looking for a new position. You can learn more about him at https://jesseliberty.bio Thank you. Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen online courses. His latest book, Building APIs with .NET, is now available wherever you buy your books. Liberty was a Team Lead and Senior Software Engineer for various corporations, a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS. He is a 13 year Microsoft MVP.
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2 Responses to Learning Xamarin–Part 1 Forms

  1. Richard Hollon's avatar Richard Hollon says:
    September 23, 2014 at 4:41 pm

    Unless you were part of the .NET architecture team in 1999, It is impossible to have 14 years of C# experience. The .NET framework is only 12 years old (13 February 2002). I worked in C# when .NET was released as a beta, and I was on one of the first 10 .NET projects in the United States of America. That gives me about 13 years of C# experience.

  2. parenting's avatar parenting says:
    June 12, 2014 at 1:33 am

    There’s certainly a lot to know about this topic. I really like all the points you have made.

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