I’ll be speaking at Stir Trek this year on .NET MAUI and building an app for configuring a gadget.

Last year I fat-fingered my submission during the Call For Presentations so nobody got to see my Planespotting With Node-Red talk. It would have been legendary!

This year, however, I managed to secure a slot with a talk on Android app development with .NET MAUI. We’ll look at building an app to control this gadget, Conways Game of Life running on a microcontroller.

I’ll start with the gadget and how to advertise over Bluetooth LE on a Raspberry Pico W. The second section of the talk will be about setting up Visual Studio 2022 for cross-platform development. The third part of the talk will cover developing the gadget configuration app for Android.

Here are some resources if you would like to follow along while I work on the app and the presentation.

• Intro to MAUI For Makers - The presentation slides
• Intro to MAUI For Makers - Speaker Notes
• Pico Life - Conways Game Of Life running on a microcontroller
• Pico Life App - The .NET MAUI application for controlling the gadget