In this era of travel budget crackdowns and higher than normal oversight into technology budgets, the iOS software engineer can get lost in the shuffle when it comes to training time and opportunities to talk with other members of the iOS development community.

Due to the rise of the popularity of Apple’s iOS platform, Apple WWDC (Worldwide Developer Conference) has become the central rallying point for iOS developers. It seems that the entire iOS community gathers in San Francisco over the week of WWDC. Many developers go to San Francisco over the week of WWDC even if they don’t have a ticket to the conference.

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On April 23, 2016 I attended my first minnebar conference: minnebar 11

I am amazed that content of this quality was presented by community members for free. It was totally worth being inside and roaming the maze-like halls of Best Buy Corporate Headquarters on one of the few sunny Saturdays we get up here in the frozen tundra of Minnesota. The exposure to new technical topics was great, but more importantly experiencing the energy of the people who are active in the Minnesota tech community was the real core of the experience.

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In last week’s post I described why it is time for native app developers to double back and take a look at C# / .NET based code for their native app platform needs in iOS, Android, and Windows 10.

There are three topics that require an even deeper look, however: app performance, other language considerations and samples of the catalog that we used in our solutions. These topics are covered in more detail below.

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