Cross Platform and Hybrid App Development Tools are getting more and more powerful. The share of app projects developed with such tools is constantly increasing and many of us have tried some of them already. We want to share our experiences and give you the latest insights directly from Adobe/PhoneGap and Xamarin.

iOS, Android and Windows are the major mobile platforms and each has it’s own development tools and programming language. Native development for the three platforms requires a big skillset and is usually more expensive than cross platform development. Maintenance and keeping up with the platform development can also be difficult, because the platforms and frameworks are evolving quickly. Xamarin and Apache Cordova / PhoneGap are two fundamentally different approaches on how to write code once for multiple platforms. Get insights from the makers of the platforms and from Swiss companies who used these tools in real-life projects.

This is an event organized solely from smama. smama has no relation to Adobe or Xamarin but we see them as two major cross platform development tool vendors. Our main goal is to provide the mobile community in Switzerland with an opportunity to exchange on this topic in depth with leading experts on this topic.

Agenda

17:30 Introduction & Welcome (5min)
• Reto Grob, Principal Architect, Netcetera AG
• Reto Senn, CEO, bitforge AG

17:35 Strategic & Business View (15min)
• Christof Zogg, Head of E-Business, SBB

17:50 Phonegap Platform – Current State & Outlook
• Gabriel Walt, Product Manager, Adobe

18:10 Xamarin Framework – Current State & Outlook
• Mike James, Developer Evangelist, Xamarin

18:30 Real Life Experience – Phone Gap: Projects Reviewed
• Sandro Antoniol, AdNovum

18:50 Real Life Experience – Xamarin: Projects Reviewed
• Florian Milde, Software Engineer, Noser Engineering AG
• Reto Senn, bitforge AG

19:15 Panel Discussion & Q&A

Please sign up here.

Enquiries: Reto Grob or Reto Senn
Event Address: HWZ Zürich, Lagerstrasse 5, 8021 Zürich (direkt beim HB, Sihlpost)
The event is free of charge for members.
Non-members pay a fee of CHF 120.00.
Kind regards,

Reto Grob
Vorstandsmitglied
smama, the swiss mobile association
Seehofstrasse 6 / CH-8008 Zürich