Many years ago, from the fountains of Mount Olympus came forth upon the planet a man, a mystery, and an enigma. Over many years, he grew; he developed amazing biceps, an intellect to rival the greatest minds in the universe, a personality larger than a fair-sized moon, and a smile that would melt the hearts of the iciest of witches. He fought in wars, raged battles against injustice, and was generally an all-round amazing type of guy.

This is not his story.

You see, while he could do all of this really cool stuff, he couldn't work his mobile, and worse, he was clueless about how to make his own apps. Then stepped forth a nice chap from Liverpool, and with a bit of patience, he showed him how to do it.

This is his story.

What made this Scouser worthy of helping the man from Olympus? The simple answer is experience. You see, he was there at the outset of the home computer boom of the early 1980s. He developed code in BASIC, Z80, the 6502 and ARM assembler, C, C++, C#, Pascal, and FORTRAN. He has won awards for programming and is a published author with Packt Publishing.

Add these together and you can see why he was a worthy teacher. That, and he makes a killer cup of coffee!

Paul (for that is his name) is 44, lives with his wife, dog, cats, and son and drinks way too much coffee! You can normally find Paul on the Facebook Xamarin Developers group, where he is an admin. He is currently in the planning stage for a follow up of this book, but this time, he is concentrating on using XAML instead of pure C# to develop Xamarin.Forms applications. This will combine his lifetime love of Dr. Who with his other love that is to create fun code.

He is currently in the middle of buying enough coffee to fuel him through it - Brazil is on high alert!