My focus for DevCamp was building an Android app that would interact with the presentation web app in realtime. For that we made use of a toolkit called Xamarin, as well as the ASP.NET SignalR library, and Git for source control. Xamarin Xamarin is a toolkit that allows you to use C# to write code for native Android and iOS apps. I had a good experience with this overall. I hit a small bug where changing the namespace caused a[...]

As part of this year’s Dev Camp we’ll be using the ASP.NET SignalR real-time communication library to synchronise between multiple views/clients of an HTML-based presentation. Some of those clients will be Android and iOS apps and so really we want to be able to use the SignalR library within those apps, and whilst we’re thinking about it, it’d be nice to be able to write the bulk of the code for those apps using C#. Not that long ago this[...]