{"id":36771,"date":"2018-05-04T18:03:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T22:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.xamarin.com\/?p=36771"},"modified":"2019-04-04T11:27:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T18:27:04","slug":"mobile-development-microsoft-build-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/mobile-development-microsoft-build-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Development at Microsoft Build 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tIt&#8217;s almost time for <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.microsoft.com\/events\/build\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Build 2018<\/a> in Seattle, Washington and that means a full three days of keynotes, breakout and theater sessions, workshops, and all the latest updates to your favorite Microsoft products and technologies.<\/p>\n<p>To help with building your conference schedule, we have curated this list of sessions specific to mobile development using Xamarin and related technologies. Be sure to tune in to the <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Events\/Build\/2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">live-stream<\/a> if you&#8217;re unable to attend, to find out what&#8217;s new at the conference this year!<\/p>\n<h2>Sessions and workshops:<\/h2>\n<h3>Monday, May 7th<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>[1:00PM &#8211; 2:15PM] Supercharging your workflow with App Center and Azure &#8211; Patrick Nikoletich &amp; Kaushik Gopal &#8211; Breakout<\/li>\n<li>[2:00PM &#8211; 2:20PM] Start building mobile apps in 5 minutes with Xamarin Live Player &#8211; James Montemagno &#8211; Theater<\/li>\n<li>[3:00PM &#8211; 3:20PM] Media Streaming Apps with Azure and Xamarin &#8211; Matt Soucoup &#8211; Theater<\/li>\n<li>[4:30PM &#8211; 5:15PM] What&#8217;s new with Visual Studio for Mac &#8211; Mikayla Hutchinson &#8211; Breakout<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Tuesday, May 8th<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>[1:15PM &#8211; 2:30PM] Visual Studio and Xamarin: The future of app development &#8211; Miguel de Icaza &amp; James Montemagno &#8211; Breakout<\/li>\n<li>[3:00PM &#8211; 4:15PM] Build your first Xamarin.Forms app across Android, iOS, and Windows &#8211; Adrian Stevens &#8211; Workshop<\/li>\n<li>[4:30PM &#8211; 4:50PM] Building mobile apps with Visual Studio and Xamarin &#8211; James Montemagno &#8211; Theater<\/li>\n<li>[5:00PM &#8211; 5:20PM] Get even more out of your beta app distribution pipeline \u2013 Garrett Knoll &amp; Zakeel Muhammad &#8211; Theater<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Wednesday, May 9th<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>[8:30AM &#8211; 9:15AM] Cloud-connected apps with Visual Studio, Xamarin, and Azure &#8211; James Montemagno &#8211; Breakout<\/li>\n<li>[10:30AM &#8211; 10:50AM] Building smart apps with Visual Studio, Xamarin, and Cognitive Services &#8211; Brandon Minnick &#8211; Theater<\/li>\n<li>[1:00PM &#8211; 1:45PM] What\u2019s new in Xamarin.Forms 3.0 &#8211; David Ortinau &#8211; Breakout<\/li>\n<li>[1:30PM &#8211; 1:50PM] The power is yours! Creating better insights through continuously monitoring your apps. &#8211; Blanca Delgado Parra &#8211; Theater<\/li>\n<li>[2:00PM &#8211; 2:20PM] Visual Studio for Mac Tips &amp; Tricks &#8211; Jordan Matthiesen &#8211; Theater<\/li>\n<li>[2:30PM &#8211; 2:50PM] Build five-star apps with App Center crash reports &#8211; Sara Ford &#8211; Theater<\/li>\n<li>[3:00PM &#8211; 3:20PM] Mobile apps built with Xamarin, using a serverless Azure Functions back-end &#8211; Laurent Bugnion &#8211; Theater<\/li>\n<li>[4:30PM &#8211; 5:45PM] Connect your mobile app to the cloud with Azure App Service Mobile Apps &#8211; Rob Gibbens &#8211; Workshop<\/li>\n<li>[6:30PM &#8211; 6:50PM] Overview of Visual Studio and Unity &#8211; JB Evain &#8211; Theater<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"action-button featured more\" href=\"https:\/\/mybuild.microsoft.com\/sessions\" style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.5em\" target=\"_blank\">Full Schedule<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can find all of the recorded sessions posted on-demand through <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Events\/Build\/2018\">Channel 9 Build 2018<\/a> after the conference.<\/p>\n<h2>Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin and Xamarin University Booth<\/h2>\n<p>Come say hi to us at the combined Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin and Xamarin University booth located in the <strong>Client &amp; Web<\/strong> area.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-36833\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/03\/Build-2018_Expo-Map_Final_with-misc-partners.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"569\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Hang with James<\/h2>\n<p>Principal Program Manager, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesMontemagno\">James Montemagno<\/a> will be hanging around Build 2018 and would love to catch up with you! You can find an agenda of hangout opportunities, like coffee and lunch, <a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/jamesmontemagno\/33b8609163223128d50e69b940a2cac8\">right here on his GitHub.<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost time for <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.microsoft.com\/events\/build\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Build 2018<\/a> in Seattle, Washington and that means a full three days of keynotes, breakout and theater sessions, workshops, and all the latest updates to your favorite Microsoft products and technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":43776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,383,291],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-36771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-developers","category-events","category-xamarin-platform","tag-events"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>It&#8217;s almost time for <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.microsoft.com\/events\/build\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Build 2018<\/a> in Seattle, Washington and that means a full three days of keynotes, breakout and theater sessions, workshops, and all the latest updates to your favorite Microsoft products and technologies.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}