Xamarin

First off, I just have not had time to write lately, sorry for that! Other priorities came up....just as life goes....

So I wanted to write something short about C# and Xamarin.

I've been working on Vanilla JavaScript for last few months. I enjoy it tremendously, however, the job market here in the Midwest does not follow the trends of the rest of the United States.

So it looks more and more like C# is where I need to be, or at least the .Net framework in general.

I've wanted to develop android apps for awhile now, but haven't dove into it purely for the investment of time in Java.

Coming across Xamarin changed all of that mentally for me. So the short snippet of Xamarin from me.

Xamarin let's you write native apps in C# cross platform. From the outside in it looks pretty easy to program cross platform for Android, iOS, or Windows.

Most people will benefit from already knowing C#, this is where I'll have to dive back in.

My plan is to continue on JavaScript, as well as work on C# on the side.

Short term I'm looking to get an app into the playstore. I plan on continuing to work on JavaScript while I gain experience in .Net platform.
There is a ton of great books out there, I know at a glance I liked the one below. I have not made a decision yet on which one I intend to work through when I am ready for it.