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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.

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Come hear me speak at Xamarin Evolve

Featured Jim Bennett 22 Jan 2016 Technology, xamarin, ibeacon, eddystone, estimote, evolve

If you're going to Xamarin Evolve 2016 this year then come and hear me talk! I'll be speaking about using iBeacons and Eddystone in your apps including showing how to use beacons to find a hidden monkey- and giving away a few beacons to anyone who who can find the monkey. The beacons I will be using will be from Estimote - they make fantastic hard…

Xamarin Estimote iOS component

Featured Jim Bennett 24 Feb 2015 xamarin, xamarin.ios, estimote, ibeacon, component

After my Blog post about binding the Estimote iOS SDK, James Montemagno (Developer evangelist at Xamarin) contacted me to say they were about to release an official Xamarin component for accessing Estimote iBeacons and nearables from iOS. This renders my binding library redundant - which is a good thing as its less work for me now to support it! I…

Binding iOS libraries in Xamarin

Featured Jim Bennett 19 Feb 2015 iOS, ios, xamarin, xamarin.ios, xamarin.forms, estimote, ibeacon, binding

Update: Since writing this, James Montemagno from Xamarin contacted me to say they are working on an Estimote component. This is now available on the Xamarin component store. Check out his blog post here. I've been playing around with iBeacons a lot recently. They seem a really cool technology with a load of interesting potential use cases. My…