It has been one long journey from 2011 all the way to 2021. Most of all, I have survived 10 years of coding and still got life for some more of it. I consider that an achievement in this ever evolving industry!
My career started with coding for Samsung Bada and Nokia Symbian. It was a such a short stint that i don’t remember much of it now, to be honest. It was in 2012 I started my love affair with C# and Windows Phone. Although Windows Phone took off with much fanfare, it came to a sorrow end. Microsoft made some major goof ups here and there. That said, C# and me has had a mature adult relationship. I fiddled with Java and Android before leaving my first job.
Phase 2 of the career was major change. From a start-up , I moved on to an MNC. Retail solution became my new domain. From being involved in all phases of product development, I shifted attention to writing more code. It has its merits and demerits but that’s for another time. As for domain. I entered into the world of RFID readers and other hand held devices. Though I got back to C#, it was a minor set back in terms of technology stack. After working on the latest versions of .NET and C#, I had to roll back to WinCE(Windows Compact edition). The handheld devices ran on Windows CE which is almost a dinosaur in this age. A lot of the latest feature of C# could not be used as the framework support was old. It was still a new journey for me, as I had to get deep into device related coding and fundamental concepts of design. RFID world is a fascinating new domain or me. After 3 years, development for WinCE devices ceased giving me some sort of deja-vu. May be small portable devices isnt really a Microsoft thing.
So I started dabbling with Android once again. Coming from windows phone, it was as if i got a power booster. There were fundamental differences between how the platform worked, but language wise, it was a smooth transition. Now comes in 2020 along with pandemic and skillset upgrade. Xamarin – the new boy in town.
The app we had was an on-prem based model. Decision was to move the whole app to cloud and micro services.
All of the mobile clients(ios, android) would be reworked in Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS. I had a new ramp up on a lot of new things. I was pretty much cut off from the latest C# and .NET version. So here I’m, trying to find out how to get things done in Xamarin.
More for later!
May the code be with you!
May the code be with you 