jhey/meetupweatherapp

Houston Xamarin Meetup Group - App From Scratch Part Series Code

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Houston Xamarin Meetup Group - App From Scratch Part Series Code

$50 Challenge

Before the May meeting, come up with (and implement) a better UI design. Best design wins $50 Amazon gift card

Goal

The goal of this series is to make a weather app that looks somewhat similar to this beauty,

Day 1

1. Intro to Xamarin.Forms
2. Build UI
3. Design Patterns (MVVM)
4. Code Structure (S.O.L.I.D principles)

Day 2

1. MVVM Framework
2. Connect to API
3. Xamarin.Essentials
4. Save cities

Day 3

1. AppCenter Setup
2. AzureDevOps Pipeline

Topics

As things evolve, we will adjust the material being covered. Here are some of the items that will be covered,

• XAML
• MVVM
• HttpClient
• Json
• Dependency Injection
• Abstracting Static Libraries (i.e. Xamarin.Essentials)
• .NET Standard Libraries
• MSBuild
• VS AppCenter
• AzureDevOps Build Pipelines
• Visual (Material)
• TBD