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…

About Jesse Liberty

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 will be released early in 2025. Liberty is a Senior SW Engineer for CNH and he was 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 Microsoft MVP.
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2 Responses to Learning Xamarin–Part 1 Forms

  1. 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 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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