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By: » My experience at Xamarin Evolve 2013 SegPhault's Blog

» My experience at Xamarin Evolve 2013 SegPhault's Blog — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:13:29 +0000

[...] Scott worked with Greg Shackles, a talented member of the Xamarin community who has a lot of experience with SignalR on Xamarin. After Greg and Scott collaborated on the demo, David Fowler of the SignalR project accepted [...]

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:34:40 +0000

Hi Tony,

You’re right that the sample is no longer in my fork – a lot has actually changed since I wrote this post last year. The good news here is that the SignalR team recently took in my pull request and are working on official support for both Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android, so my fork is no longer the place to go. As far as I know, they are planning to provide full support starting in SignalR 2.0. My changes are merged into their dev branch, so you can pull from that if you want to try things out in the meantime.

Hope this helps!

Greg

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:54:53 +0000

Hi Greg,

I can’t find this sample anywhere in you forks.

I have been trying to build a basic Mono for Android app using the chat example and have the Web and WinForms examples working fine.

When I copy the code from my WinForms app into my mono app I am having a lot of trouble.

The first issue I had with the latest .net client dll was all around 509 certificates. I could find any resolution so reverted to an older version of the dll.

The problem then with the older version was anytime I went to call the invoke method it crashed out telling me there was no connection, even when I wrapped it in a new _connection.Start().ContinueWith(task => function.

I could see that there was a connection because it was handling any incoming messages from the web clients.

Do you have a recent version that supports the Android with Mono?

Cheers

By: Vincent Bellet

Vincent Bellet — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:42:21 +0000

awesome post! thanks for sharing.

I am a big fan of signalr.

By: Sander

Sander — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:16:26 +0000

Hi Greg,

your ports of SignalR are awesome, we have been using them for a cross platform mobile demo for a real-time auction and it works like a charm. It does not seem to work on Android 2.2 however, does your SignalR for MonoDroid only support Android 2.3 and higher?

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:00:01 +0000

When I originally spoke with David about it, he didn’t want to bring in MT/MD support into SignalR officially, which is why I continue to maintain this fork. That said, I believe there are plans to officially support it at some point, but I can’t really provide too much insight there.

By: tim

tim — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:35:04 +0000

What are the chances of your iOS changes getting into the main branch?

By: KRK

KRK — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 19:19:39 +0000

Thanks for the demo apps too.

Quite interesting ‘application’ of SignalR.

By: Cheatsheet: 2012 07.19 ~ 07.31 - gOODiDEA.NET

Cheatsheet: 2012 07.19 ~ 07.31 - gOODiDEA.NET — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:51:29 +0000

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By: The Morning Brew - Chris Alcock » The Morning Brew #1157

The Morning Brew - Chris Alcock » The Morning Brew #1157 — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 08:30:00 +0000

[...] Using SignalR in MonoTouch and Mono for Android Apps – Greg Shackles discusses getting up and running with SignalR on Android and iOS using Mono and MonoTouch, looking at building the client and consuming it in code. [...]