Build Cross-Platform Mobile Apps Using Fabulous
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In recent years there has been a shift in the way websites and mobile apps are being built - moving to architectures with immutable models and virtual UIs based on the MVU (model-view-update) pattern. This has led to great new frameworks like ELM and React for web, and ReactNative for mobile.
Now there is a new MVU framework for building mobile apps - Fabulous. It's a community-driven open source framework, combining the simplicity of an MVU framework, with 100% native API access for both iOS and Android, all built with F#.
In this session, Jim will start with an overview of MVU, discussing how it works and why it is such a great architecture. He will then move on to building a first Fabulous app that runs on iOS and Android. Next up more features will be added to the app whilst the app is running on a device, showing the hot reload capabilities of Fabulous for both UI and app logic. Finally he will look at the underlying architecture, see how to use all of the iOS and Android APIs, see how to easily use native components such as cocoa pods or jars, and look at the massive range of libraries that this framework has available to it to do all manner of UI and application logic things. Jim will even explore how to use it on macOS and Windows, including being able to build iOS apps on Windows (with the help of a networked Mac, Apple licensing rules and whatnot).
When looking at naming for this framework, someone suggested Fabulous. By the end of this session, you will see why that name stuck.
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Thanks to our sponsors
Build Cross-Platform Mobile Apps Using Fabulous
Jim Bennett
Jim Bennett is a Senior Cloud Advocate working for Microsoft, and his area of speciality is Xamarin apps. Prior to working for Microsoft Jim was a Xamarin and Microsoft MVP, and worked all around the world building desktop and mobile apps using .NET with C# and F#. He is also the author of Xamarin In Action from Manning publications.
Please log in to watch this conference skillscast.
In recent years there has been a shift in the way websites and mobile apps are being built - moving to architectures with immutable models and virtual UIs based on the MVU (model-view-update) pattern. This has led to great new frameworks like ELM and React for web, and ReactNative for mobile.
Now there is a new MVU framework for building mobile apps - Fabulous. It's a community-driven open source framework, combining the simplicity of an MVU framework, with 100% native API access for both iOS and Android, all built with F#.
In this session, Jim will start with an overview of MVU, discussing how it works and why it is such a great architecture. He will then move on to building a first Fabulous app that runs on iOS and Android. Next up more features will be added to the app whilst the app is running on a device, showing the hot reload capabilities of Fabulous for both UI and app logic. Finally he will look at the underlying architecture, see how to use all of the iOS and Android APIs, see how to easily use native components such as cocoa pods or jars, and look at the massive range of libraries that this framework has available to it to do all manner of UI and application logic things. Jim will even explore how to use it on macOS and Windows, including being able to build iOS apps on Windows (with the help of a networked Mac, Apple licensing rules and whatnot).
When looking at naming for this framework, someone suggested Fabulous. By the end of this session, you will see why that name stuck.
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- Elasticsearch for Developers with Itamar Syn-Hershko (in London on 16th - 18th December 2019)
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- Keynote by Ryn Daniels on Designing Sustainable Ops Cultures (in London on 21st August 2019)
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- Modern Application Development with C# and .NET Core (in London on 16th - 19th September 2019)
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- London .NET September 2019 with James Bender (in London on 4th September 2019)
- Core Image: Great When It Works (SkillsCast recorded in August 2019)
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Thanks to our sponsors
Build Cross-Platform Mobile Apps Using Fabulous
Jim Bennett
Jim Bennett is a Senior Cloud Advocate working for Microsoft, and his area of speciality is Xamarin apps. Prior to working for Microsoft Jim was a Xamarin and Microsoft MVP, and worked all around the world building desktop and mobile apps using .NET with C# and F#. He is also the author of Xamarin In Action from Manning publications.