The mobile development industry has transformed significantly since the release of the first iPhone. We have native apps, micro apps, web apps, and mobile websites.

Let's talk about what we use to develop mobile apps. Kotlin/Java, Flutter, React Native, Xamarin, Swift/Objective-C, and other tools. Come find out what we like about each platform, how we implement patterns, practices, and experiences.

What about the latest devices with AR capabilities or foldable devices? Come and share your experiences and exchange ideas on your journeys.

✶ Event Hangout Staff✶

✶ Min Maung ✶

Name a new technology that Min isn’t interested in. Min has developed on all mobile platforms from latest Windows 10 to Windows Mobile 6.5. Of course that also means that he has had countless smartphones and tablets. Min is often honing his skills by aggressively competing in hackathons dating back to his days at Dominican University. Being technologically agnostic, he does not stop tinkering with mobile platforms like Android, he creates his own personal microcontrollers for robotics projects. When he’s not coding, he’s building robots. When he’s not adding more robots to his robot army, you will see him speaking at conferences such as That Conference and CodeMash. Monday through Friday, you’ll find him at Concurrency Inc., cranking out .Net code and writing apps in ASP.Net Core, Knockout.js, Node.js, and other web solutions.

✶ Michael Fazio ✶

Michael Fazio is a Senior Software Engineer with Skyline Technologies, where he helps clients solve all kinds of problems in the web, mobile, and cloud spaces. Fazio is also an organizing committee member for Chicago Code Camp and Milwaukee Code Camp, as well as a presenter at user groups, code camps, and ThatConference. Fazio has a love of all things mobile, JavaScript, design patterns, and REST APIs. Outside of technology, he's always up for a chat about board games, video games, baseball, basketball, and late-90s metal bands.

✶ Chester (Chet) Hartin ✶

Chet first wrote hello world on a Timex Sinclair 1000, and he has been hooked ever since. While he considers himself a bit of a polyglot, he has been working primarily in .Net since the early 00s. He is currently a Technical Architect at Concurrency.

✶ Lwin Maung ✶

Lwin Maung is a Microsoft Windows Development MVP and an expert on mechatronics with over 9 years of consulting experience. He has consulted for small startups, fortune 500 companies as well as NGOs world wide. Lwin’s mobile applications have been featured on technology sites such as engadget, gizmodo, and pocket now. He has also designed and created programmable microcontrollers as well as microcontroller controlled robots from the ground up to use in teaching children(and teens) simple programming. In his free time, Lwin teaches and mentors highschool and university students who are building applications and developing hardware prototypes.

Lwin was also involved in creation of various certification exams for Microsoft. Lwin is highly active in the development community and helps run Chicago Code Camp. Lwin is one of the staff members of That Conference and you can often find him speaking various technical conferences and code camps.

See you here on January 14, 2021 at 7 PM!

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