Category: Video

Introducing Suave Streams

Welcome to Suave Streams at https://twitch.tv/suave_pirate where I’ll be taking some time twice a week to build some of the coolest, funniest, and also innovative pieces of software using real-world patterns, practices, and tools.

Come for a laugh, come to build, and come to learn! We’ll be jumping into languages, and tools like:

  • C#
  • TypeScript
  • Kotlin
  • Swift
  • ASP.NET Core
  • Alexa Skills
  • Actions on Google
  • Bixby Capsules
  • Conversational AI
  • Real time communications
  • Xamarin/Maui.NET
  • UWP
  • Game Development
  • Bot building

and so much more!

We’re starting off with a schedule of every:

  • Sunday 12:30-4:30PM EST
  • Wednesday 6-10PM EST

I hope you’ll join for our first ever livestream this Sunday, May 22nd at 12:30pm EST where we are starting to build an Alexa Skill to Beat Call of Duty Warzone! Using:

C#, ASP.NET Core APIs, SignalR, UWP, Alexa Skills SDK, and scalable architectures and design patterns to make it come to life.

After each stream, I’ll also be uploading the whole recording (with minor edits) to my YouTube over at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1ycVqsWOInQuel68295M7w

So if you can’t make the stream, you won’t miss out on all the fun. Be sure to follow me on twitch for updates on when I go live and to keep up with the projects we start creating!

See you there!

 

 

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Video – Kotlin for C# Developers at NDC Oslo

In June, I had the amazing privilege of giving a talk at NDC Oslo called “Kotlin for C# Developers”! Lucky for you, NDC records all of their sessions, so you can check out the recording from YouTube right here 🙂

Dive into the latest craze in languages and platforms – Kotlin. This time we will be looking at it from the perspective of a .NET C# developer, draw comparisons between the languages, and bridge the gap between these 2 amazing languages.

We’ll look at:
– Kotlin as a language
– Platforms Kotlin is great for
– Object Oriented Implementations in Kotlin
– Extended Features
– Features Kotlin has that C# doesn’t
– A demo Android application in Kotlin vs a Xamarin.Android app in C#

In the end you will leave with a foundational knowledge of Kotlin and its capabilities to build awesome apps with less code. You should feel comfortable comparing C# applications to Kotlin applications and know where to find resources to learn even more!

Let me know your thoughts in the comments or on Twitter, and check out my other content on Kotlin here: https://alexdunn.org/tag/kotlin/

Want to see this live? I’ll be giving an updated version of this talk at Techorama Netherlands in September/October along with an introduction to the Flux design pattern in C#.

Check those out here:

If you prefer to just jump right into a language / platform – I would happily suggest my Pluralsight course – Building Android Apps with Kotlin: Getting Started. Take a look here: https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/building-android-apps-kotlin-getting-started/

 

 

If you like what you see, don’t forget to follow me on twitter @Suave_Pirate, check out my GitHub, and subscribe to my blog to learn more mobile and AI developer tips and tricks!

Interested in sponsoring developer content? Message @Suave_Pirate on twitter for details.

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Pluralsight Course Announcement – Building Android Apps with Kotlin: Getting Started

Today’s the day! My first Pluralsight course Building Android Apps with Kotlin: Getting Started has finally released!
Take a look at the course here: https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/building-android-apps-kotlin-getting-started/

And read below for more information.

What’s in it for me?

In this course, we take an introductory look at Android application development with the newest language set out to replace Java – Kotlin. This is a beginner’s course to both Android and Kotlin, so no experience in either is required. If you have some Android knowledge, come take a look at how it looks in Kotlin, and if you have some Kotlin experience, take a look at how it is applied to Android development.

In the end you’ll leave the course with a fully built real-world application that you can always look back to and reference in your own Android apps going forward!

Touch on topics such as:

  • Android fundamentals
  • Activities and their lifecycle
  • Fragments and their lifecycle
  • Creating models in Kotlin to represent remote data
  • Accessing data over HTTP
  • Storing data locally on the device with Sqlite and Anko
  • Making asynchronous data calls to ensure the UI remains smooth
  • Material design
  • Other helpful tools and libraries
  • Comparing Java to Kotlin
  • So much more…

 

I’m planning a paired blog series to tag along with the course that will focus on some other basic Android+Kotlin concepts and draw comparisons to how they were done in Java and how they should be done in Kotlin, so keep an eye out for that as well!

Feedback

Again, this is my first course completed with Pluralsight, so I’m always looking for feedback or questions you might have about the course. You can either, comment in the “Discussion” section of the course, comment on this post, or reach me on Twitter @Suave_Pirate. What did you like? What could have been done better? What are you stuck on?

Thank You!

A special thank you to my Editor, Alex Walton, and my Author Success Manager, Beth Gerard-Hess for their help through the process as well as the rest of the Pluralsight team for being so great while I produced my first course.

 

If you like what you see, don’t forget to follow me on twitter @Suave_Pirate, check out my GitHub, and subscribe to my blog to learn more mobile developer tips and tricks!

Interested in sponsoring developer content? Message @Suave_Pirate on twitter for details.

 

Xamarin.University – Upcoming Guest Lecture on Cross-Platform WebRTC

Join me on Tuesday, May 23rd and learn about bringing voice and video conferencing capabilities to your mobile apps! We will talk about the general capabilities of WebRTC, how to bring it to Native mobile development, using it in Xamarin, and extending the capabilities of it.

Leave with an app that lets you share your voice and videos with others!

Bring your devices and your questions!

Here’s a link to the guest lecture! https://university.xamarin.com/guestlectures/cross-platform-webrtc

If you like what you see, don’t forget to follow me on twitter @Suave_Pirate, check out my GitHub, and subscribe to my blog to learn more mobile developer tips and tricks!

[Video Series] Xamarin.Tips: Calling Platform-Specific Code from a PCL

Learn how to use 4 methods to call platform specific code from shared code in Xamarin. Make calls to the HockeyApp iOS SDK from a Portable Class Library.

  1. Singleton Method
  2. Xamarin.Forms Dependency Service
  3. Service Locator
  4. Dependency Injection

 

Source Code: https://github.com/SuavePirate/Xamarin.HockeyApp.Portable 

[VIDEO] Xamarin.Tips: Calling Platform-Specific Code from a PCL (All 4 Methods)

Using all 4 methods to call platform specific code from shared code in Xamarin. Make calls to the HockeyApp iOS SDK from a Portable Class Library.

 

Source Code: https://github.com/SuavePirate/Xamarin.HockeyApp.Portable 

[VIDEO] Xamarin.Tips: Calling Platform-Specific Code from a PCL (Dependency Injection)

Using Dependency Injection to call platform specific code from shared code in Xamarin. Make calls to the HockeyApp iOS SDK from a Portable Class Library.

 

Source Code: https://github.com/SuavePirate/Xamarin.HockeyApp.Portable 

[VIDEO] Xamarin.Tips: Calling Platform-Specific Code from a PCL (Service Locator {anti}Pattern)

Using the Service Locator anti-pattern to call platform specific code from shared code in Xamarin. Make calls to the HockeyApp iOS SDK from a Portable Class Library.

 

Source Code: https://github.com/SuavePirate/Xamarin.HockeyApp.Portable