Wallace B. McClure
All About Wally McClure - The musings of Wallym on Web, HTML5, Mobile, Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Windows Azure.
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Xamarin.Forms: What Developers Make of It
Developers tell us why they use it and what benefit they derive from the tooling, and Xamarin developer Craig Dunn goes over the decisionmaking process when choosing between Xamarin.Forms, Xamarin.iOS or Xamarin.Android.
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Simplifying Cross-Platform Mobile App Development with Xamarin.Forms
Lots of decisions go into creating cross-platform apps. Without Xamarin.Forms, the decision process is almost too unwieldy. Here's how it can simplify your mobile development.
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Cross Platform Mobile With C# WhitePaper presented by Visual Studio Magazine
My white paper on Visual Studio Magazine is now available. This whitepaper will discuss the details for developing cross platform applications with C#.
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Be More Social: oAuth, Facebook and Xamarin
It isn't breaking news that social networks are a big deal to your users. But what's the best way to add that functionality in the cross-platform development world? One of the best ways is through Xamarin, which provides a set of components that allows developers to concentrate on high-level programming and solving user problems. This article will look at some technologies available in Android -- as well as the iPhone -- to add social features to applications. It serves as a companion to my April article that covered oAuth, Twitter and the Linq to Twitter library.
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Standardized Navigation Principles for Android App Development - Visual Studio Magazine Article
Navigation in mobile devices is an important consideration. If a user isn't able to navigate an app, he might quickly abandon it. Learn the navigation principles of Android to keep this from happening to you.
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Cross Platform Data Access with Xamarin & C# For iPhone, iPad, and Android - Local, Web Services, & Sql Server
The following is a link to cross platform data access training with Xamarin & C#. It is intended for use on iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. The course covers local data in Sqlite, calling Web Services via REST and JSON, and calling Sql Server.
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Cross Platform Development with Xamarin - Portable Class Libraries and ASP.NET Razor Templating
My training on Cross Platform Development with Xamarin w/ Portable Class Libraries and ASP.NET Razor Templating is now available online from Learn Now Online. The url is: http://www.learnnowonline.com/course/cpx1/xamarin-cross-platform-pcl-and-razor
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Mobile - Cloud - Web - Success
On the weekend of May 2-4, 2014, I attended the Atlanta Startup Weekend. I can't speak highly enough of the event. Jen Bonnett runs a great event, provides a lot of great speakers and mentors. I can't speak highly enough of her work and her event. She has a number of people that help out as staff: Maria Joyner (she has to approve my Twitter bio), Dawn Law, Kiran Bindra, Michael Ames, Wanda, and Chris Schwartz. I've been to other start up events, but this will always be the gold standard.
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Using OAuth, Twitter and Async To Display Data - Connect to Twitter from a mobile application using OAuth with the Xamarin.Auth library, along with Joe Mayo's LINQ To Twitter library
Authentication has been a part of .NET for a long time. Unfortunately, there are a couple of problems:
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Build a Cross-Platform, Mobile Golf App Using C# and Xamarin - MSDN Magazine Article
One of the fun things about the return of golf season is participating in tournaments that feature events such as a longest drive contest. In these, a person’s first shot off a designated hole is measured against others in the tournament. The longest drive during the day is declared the winner. However, these contests typically don’t have centralized scoring. If you’re in the first group, you don’t know until after the event is over where your shots stand in relation to everyone else’s. Why not use a mobile phone to record the starting point and ending point of drives and store the information in a cloud-hosted database?