Mobile Dev Stack Update with Lino Tadros
How is mobile development evolving? Carl and Richard talk to Lino Tadros about his current work building mobile apps with lots of different technologies. Lino talks about build mobile apps natively with Objective-C and Java as well as a variety of hybrid approaches: C# using Xamarin, Javascript/HTML with Cordova and even good old fashion responsive web design. So what works best for you? Lino highlights some strengths and weaknesses of the different platforms, recognizing that it mostly comes down to skillset - what tools are you most comfortable with? That's what ultimately makes the difference. No matter how good a tool is, your ability to use it has the largest impact on how well your mobile app turns out.
Guests:
Lino Tadros
Alain "Lino" Tadros is President & CEO of Falafel Software, a Silicon Valley based company, with presence in Colorado, Texas, Michigan, Florida and North Carolina, dedicated to providing world-class consulting, training, and software development for small, medium, and enterprise level businesses. Prior to founding Falafel, Lino was a member of the development team at Borland for Delphi and C++Builder. Lino has been awarded Microsoft MVP status 12 years in a row for his numerous contributions to the C# community and is an expert in .NET, LINQ, ASP.NET, MVC, XAML, Windows Phone and Web Services. Lino is an industry renowned speaker and has given numerous presentations on five different continents since 1994. He also currently sits on the Board of Directors of four Silicon Valley corporations.
Links:
- Developing for NASA's Voyager http://www.geek.com/science/nasa-seeks-programmer-fluent-in-60-year-old-languages-to-work-on-voyager-1638276/
- Ionic Framework http://ionicframework.com/
- Xamarin https://xamarin.com/
- RoboVM https://robovm.com/
- Kendo UI http://www.telerik.com/kendo-ui
- Xamarin Forms for Prototyping https://blog.xamarin.com/rapid-mobile-app-prototyping-with-xamarin-forms/
- NativeScript https://www.nativescript.org/
- Cordova for Visual Studio https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/features/cordova-vs.aspx
- Visual Studio Code https://code.visualstudio.com/
- MvvmCross https://github.com/MvvmCross/MvvmCross
- MVVM Light http://www.mvvmlight.net/
- Xamarin Test Cloud https://xamarin.com/test-cloud
- Smartbear TestComplete http://smartbear.com/product/testcomplete/overview/