Jim Bennett

Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, Xamarin Certified Developer, author of Xamarin In Action, blogger, speaker, father and lover of beer, whisky and Thai food. Opinions are my own.
Cloud Developer Advocate

  Reading, UK

See me soon at:
Techorama NL
Expert Day For Xamarin
Caribbean Developers Conference

My book:
Xamarin In Action

My podcast:
The Jim And Tonic Show
The Jim And Tonic Show on iTunes

Contact me:
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Binding the Cognitive Services Android Speech SDK - Part 3 - Java 8 fun

Featured Jim Bennett xamarin, Technology, xamarin.android, java, binding, aar, jar, COMPILETODALVIK, invalid opcode ba, invokedynamic

In the first part of this post, I showed how to get started binding the Microsoft Cognitive Services speech API. In the second part I showed how to make the code look more C#-like. In this part, I'll show how to use it and fix up a nasty issue with the Android compiler and using jars created with the latest versions of Java. Using the SDK To use th…

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Binding the Cognitive Services Android Speech SDK - Part 2, making the code more C#-like

Featured Jim Bennett Technology, xamarin, xamarin.android, java, binding, aar, jar

In the first part of this post, I showed how to get started binding the Microsoft Cognitive Services speech API. In this part I show how to make the code look more C#-like. In the third part I'll show how to use it and fix up a nasty issue with the Android compiler and using jars created with the latest versions of Java. Making the namespaces more…

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Binding the Cognitive Services Android Speech SDK - Part 1, binding the library

Featured Jim Bennett Technology, xamarin, xamarin.android, java, binding, aar, jar

As part of the Microsoft Cognitive Services speech API, there is a native Java Android SDK available as an .aar file. I wanted to use this in a Xamarin app, so I created a binding project for it. The code for this is available in my GitHub. Binding an SDK is a four step process: Create the binding project with the relevant jar or aar file Make any…

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Building a Xamarin Android app - part 5

Featured Jim Bennett xamarin, xamarin.android, mvvmlight, binding, Technology, UI, tutorial

This is the fifth part in the my series about building an Android app using Xamarin.Android. I highly recommend reading these first. The previous parts are: Creating the basic app Defining our data Building view models Binding the view models to the UI Adding the Add button Currently we have a nice recycler view showing our dummy counters in card…

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Binding the Cognitive Services Android Speech SDK - Part 3 - Java 8 fun

Featured Jim Bennett xamarin, Technology, xamarin.android, java, binding, aar, jar, COMPILETODALVIK, invalid opcode ba, invokedynamic

In the first part of this post, I showed how to get started binding the Microsoft Cognitive Services speech API. In the second part I showed how to make the code look more C#-like. In this part, I'll show how to use it and fix up a nasty issue with the Android compiler and using jars created with the latest versions of Java. Using the SDK To use th…

Read More

Binding the Cognitive Services Android Speech SDK - Part 2, making the code more C#-like

Featured Jim Bennett Technology, xamarin, xamarin.android, java, binding, aar, jar

In the first part of this post, I showed how to get started binding the Microsoft Cognitive Services speech API. In this part I show how to make the code look more C#-like. In the third part I'll show how to use it and fix up a nasty issue with the Android compiler and using jars created with the latest versions of Java. Making the namespaces more…

Read More

Binding the Cognitive Services Android Speech SDK - Part 1, binding the library

Featured Jim Bennett Technology, xamarin, xamarin.android, java, binding, aar, jar

As part of the Microsoft Cognitive Services speech API, there is a native Java Android SDK available as an .aar file. I wanted to use this in a Xamarin app, so I created a binding project for it. The code for this is available in my GitHub. Binding an SDK is a four step process: Create the binding project with the relevant jar or aar file Make any…

Read More

Building a Xamarin Android app - part 5

Featured Jim Bennett xamarin, xamarin.android, mvvmlight, binding, Technology, UI, tutorial

This is the fifth part in the my series about building an Android app using Xamarin.Android. I highly recommend reading these first. The previous parts are: Creating the basic app Defining our data Building view models Binding the view models to the UI Adding the Add button Currently we have a nice recycler view showing our dummy counters in card…

Read More