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title: "My talk from Xamarin Evolve 2016 is now on YouTube"
date: 2016-05-11
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My talk from [Xamarin Evolve 2016](http://evolve.xamarin.com) is now up on YouTube!

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      <p style='text-align:justify;color:#686868;'>Contextual awareness is a fast-growing trend in mobile development. In this session, Jim will take you through a quick overview of beacon technology, including Apple's iBeacons and Google's Eddystone, before diving into some code. We'll even build a simple app live on stage to demonstrate how you can detect and wake up beacons, as well as detect user proximity to beacons.</p>
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