nishanil / dev-days-hol

Xamarin, Azure Mobile Apps & Mobile DevOps Hands on Labs

Build Status

Dev	Easy Tables	.NET Backend (Client)	.NET Backend (Server)

Dev Days HOL

Dev Days provide attendees with an intense, hands-on learning experience. Spend the time exploring mobile development with sessions from Xamarin & Azure Experts, our technology partners, and members of the local developer community, then roll up your sleeves for an afternoon dedicated to diving into code.

Inside this repo you will find all of the hands on labs that you will experience at Dev Days!

##Overview The Hands On Labs are broken down into 3 modules:

• 00 Quickstart - Samples to get you started on Traditional Approach
• 01 Dev-Labs - Learn to create a Xamarin.Forms app from scratch
• 02 Cloud-Labs - Building Cloud connected & Offline Sync Apps
  • Create a no code backend with Easy Tables
  • Create a Scalable .NET Backend & Authenticate Users
• 02 DevOps-Labs - VSTS + HockeyApp

##Pre-Requisites

• Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition (or higher) with latest Updates.
• Xamarin
• Visual Studio Android Emulator or Google Emulators
• Azure subscription (for cloud labs)
• Download the repo

##Lab Setup Guidelines Here is the full guide for both Mac OS X and Windows to help get you started:

• Mac OS X
• Windows

In order to test the part of iOS, for those who do not have a MAC, you can use one of the weekly plans MacInCloud (Europe Server, OS El Capitain) with the option Enable Remote Build Port enabled.

###Visual Studio Emulator for Android

Instructions to Launch Visual Studio Emulator for Android and run an Android Virtual Emulator.

Click on the Tools menu and click on Visual Studio Emulator for Android.

If Visual Studio Emulator for Android is not installed, you can follow theses instructions to install:

1. Either launch Visual Studio Installer or launch from Control Panel > Programs & Features.

2. Click on Modify.

3. In the set of components, check the box beside Microsoft Visual Studio Emulator for Android.

Install and Re-Launch Visual Studio.

##Troubleshooting

If you get this error:

Unzipping failed. Please download https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/support_r19.0.1.zip and extract it to the C:\Users\AppData\Local\Xamarin\Android.Support.v4\19.0.1\content directory.

Quick workaround: Clear all the folders in the location C:\Users<username>\AppData\Local\Xamarin and then Clean and Rebuild the Solution. This build might take some time (serveral minutes) as all the packages will be downloaded again by the Visual Studio.

##License Copyright (c) 2016 Nish Anil

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

dev-days-hol's Issues

Suggestion: Adding the step of Clicking View More Button to list all Pricing Tiers.

This is a suggestion for EasyTables App. All pricing tiers are not visible while creating an App Service Plan in Azure. Free Tier is visible only on clicking View All button on top. This can added to the tutorial to avoid any confusion/delay.

Fix UWP UI

Margins seems to be an issue with UWP.

[DevOps] - Add assembly Versioning

Add assembly Versioning steps

Instructions to Install and Launch Visual Studio Emulator for Android can be added.

Instructions to Launch Visual Studio Emulator for Android and run an Android Virtual Emulator.

Click on the Tools menu and click on Visual Studio Emulator for Android.

Visual Studio Emulator for Android component may not be installed in some machines. Instructions to install the component.

If the menu Visual Studio Emulator for Android is not found in Tools Menu, Visual Studio Emulator for Android will have to be installed initially.

1. Launch Visual Studio Installer. It can also be launched from Control Panel > Programs & Features.
2. Click on Modify.
   
3. In the set of components, check the box beside Microsoft Visual Studio Emulator for Android.
   , install and Re-Launch Visual Studio.

Participant may delete the Title for Speakers Page

The Title property of ViewModelBase is being Set in the Constructor of SpeakersViewModel class .

public SpeakersViewModel() { Title = "Speakers"; }

In the ReadMe instructions for the App, Constructor of SpeakersViewModel has been shown after intialising Speakers property as

public SpeakersViewModel() { Speakers = new ObservableCollection<Speaker>(); }

Participant may remove the code to set the Title of the page and the page might appear without Title like below.

Issue when using SQLite with Android 7.0

An issue is seen to be appearing when using the NuGet package Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Mobile.SQLiteStore 2.1.0 in Android 7.0

The error appears with the following message:
Detected problems with app native libraries(please consult log for details): libmonosgen-64bit-2.0.so: unauthorized access to "/system/lib64/libsqlite.so

Interface class was already pre-created

Its mentioned in the documentation that "First, create the interface ITextToSpeech and define Speak() method in it inside the PCL project."

All we really need to do is, define the method. But not create the interface

SpeakButtonRenderer class already exist

SpeakButtonRenderer class already exist in the start project and no chnage is required to the exisiting class, though in the documentation it tells to create the new class.

Add "False build error reported by Intellisense that can be ignored" to ReadMe

While building the solution or the PCL project, Visual Studio might raise a build error

The name 'InitializeComponent' does not exist in the current context
Build action 'EmbeddedResource' is not supported by one or more of the project's targets.

This can be ignored and the project can be deployed.

Above information can be added to the ReadMe file in first project to avoid confusions and save time.

[DevOps] - Add iOS Steps

Add iOS Steps

"This App May slow down your iphone, The developer of this app needs to update the app for it's compatibility"

Change iOS architecture to support x64

Adding a common issue to ReadMe

We may also include

Unzipping failed. Please download https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/support_r19.0.1.zip and extract it to the C:\Users\AppData\Local\Xamarin\Android.Support.v4\19.0.1\content directory.

error in common issues faced potion in this ReadMe file.

Solution to this issue is to clear all the folders in the location C:\Users\AppData\Local\Xamarin and then Clean and Rebuild the Solution. This build might take some time (serveral minutes) as all the packages will be downloaded again by the Visual Studio.