Workshops and Training
Lexicon provides complete training modules on a range of topics, including mobile and Xamarin. Most workshops can be a half-day, one-day, or two-day. They are immersive courses with lecture, code examples, and hands-on coding.
Slides and code examples will be available to the developers after the sessions are completed. Here are a few of our workshops:
Mobile Development Using Xamarin
Based upon our Apress books, Building Xamarin.Forms Mobile Apps Using XAML and Xamarin Mobile Application Development, we offer a comprehensive workshop to teach developers mobile web development using Xamarin, tailored to UMLs particular areas of need. This workshop is offered in a two-day, one-day, or half-day format.
Each full day includes some hands-on development. The two-day course covers deployment, web services, and publishing. C# and .NET introductory material can be optionally included.
Learn how to leverage Xamarin.Forms to optimize cross-platform development using the most common UI pages, layouts, views, controls, and UI patterns. Combine these with platform-specific UI to craft a visually stunning and highly interactive mobile user experience.
This workshop addresses one of the most important and vexing problems in the software industry today: How do we effectively design and develop cross-platform native mobile applications?
DevOps for Mobile Apps
This live workshop is based upon our edX video course, DevOps for Mobile Apps. Build, test, and deploy mobile apps in a DevOps environment using Visual Studio App Center (VSAC). In this course you will learn how to set up and manage multiple applications, organizations, testers, and teams using App Center Build, App Center Test, and App Center Distribute.
DevOps practices using VSAC help development teams keep builds and releases organized as they are distributed to collaborators, teams of testers, customer beta testers, all the way into app stores like Google Play and iTunes. This course covers the automation of time-consuming tasks such as builds and build signing within a streamlined workflow. Learn how to test on multiple physical devices by creating device sets and choosing from over twenty-five hundred devices and over four hundred configurations of iOS and Android versions
What you’ll learn
- How to sign up and get started with Visual Studio App Center (VSAC)
- How to connect to repositories and build applications in VSAC
- How to test applications using VSAC
- How to build and deploy applications using VSAC
- Other training topics include Azure, Cognitive, and IoT.