Karachites to witness First Official Xamarin Dev Day Tomorrow

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Karachi’s First Official Xamarin Dev Day provides attendees an introduction to Cross-Platform App development using Xamarin with a hands-on learning experience. The meetup is unique as it is the first official Xamarin Dev day in Karachi, Pakistan and that it brings the best of speakers at one platform, both online and offline. The meetup is officially organized under Karachi Mobile Developers group.

The need of such a meetup was identified by Mr. Ahad Khan who’s a Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer and he initiated the conversation with officials of Xamarin. As a local field team of Microsoft when we learnt of such an activity, we facilitated by introducing Microsoft MVP, Daniyal Saleem to bring the flavor of Microsoft Azure in the meetup.

Here’s a review of the agenda with speaker profiles,

9:00am - 9:58am Welcome and marking attendance
10:00am -10:10am Keynote speech by Andy Larkin – CEO at Grappetite
10:10am - 10:40am Intro to Xamarin by Ahad Khan – Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer
10:40am - 11:00am Tea break
11:00am - 11:30am Xamarin Forms by Arif Imran – Xamarin Certified Mobile App Developer
11:30am - 1:00 pm Azure Cloud Integration by Daniyal Saleem – Microsoft Most Valuable Professional on Visual Studio & Development Technologies
1:00pm - 1:30 pm Azure App demo by Syed Asad Ali – Senior Software Engineer
1:30pm - 2:50 pm Lunch and prayers break
2:50pm - 4:50pm Group activity / Collaborative Programming