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**Title**: Building your first Android app using Xamarin\\
**Proposer**: [[2015:Gill Cleeren]]\\
**Type**: Presentation\\
**Duration**: 90 mins\\
**Description**: \\
Do you have a great knowledge about C#? Maybe you’ve already built a great mobile app on Windows Phone or Windows 8? Would you like to be able to use your knowledge to build an Android app without having to resort to other languages or IDEs? Well, now you can! With Xamarin.\\
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In this session, Gill Cleeren will take you through the creation of your first Android application. We’ll see how we can use our trusted Visual Studio for this task, how we can create apps with mulitple screens and how we can call services. We’ll also look at how we can deploy the application and how we can debug our code.\\
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You’ll walk away wanting to port your code to Android!\\
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