Cross Platform Mobile Development using Xamarin and C# Develop your iOS, Android, Windows Phone apps with .NET and C# Alexey Strakh, EastBanc Technologies
Cross-platform mobile development using Xamarin and C#
May 07, 2015
Recent increase in demand of the cross-platform mobile development born a few great technologies. Some of them are good, others are not, but just few of them provides native platform experience. Hybrid applications work great in this case. Taking into account responsive design makes it even better. However, users do not need “just functionality” and responsive layout any more. They need, even demand great user experience, which should be attractive, convenient, powerful, responsive and unique. During this session, I want to tell you how Xamarin and Mono help to deliver native experience for iOS, Android, Windows Phone platforms having most of your code reused between platforms and written in C#.
This session will give you an overview of cross-platform development basics for iOS, Android and Windows Phone platforms using Xamarin, .NET and C#
You will know:
- Xamarin concept. MonoTouch & MonoDroid
- Developing under Windows & Mac. Environment requirements.
- Visual Studio vs Xamarin Studio
- MvvmCross libraries
- Utilization of Portable Class Libraries & Project Links for better code sharing
This session will give you an overview of cross-platform development basics for iOS, Android and Windows Phone platforms using Xamarin, .NET and C#
You will know:
- Xamarin concept. MonoTouch & MonoDroid
- Developing under Windows & Mac. Environment requirements.
- Visual Studio vs Xamarin Studio
- MvvmCross libraries
- Utilization of Portable Class Libraries & Project Links for better code sharing
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Cross Platform Mobile Development using Xamarin and C#Develop your iOS, Android, Windows Phone apps with .NET and C# Alexey Strakh, EastBanc Technologies
Agenda
•Mono and Xamarin•Cross Platform Environment and IDEs•Why C#?• Share your code•Automated UI Testing
The “Build Apps Multiple Times” Approach
• Platform-specific• Multiple codebases• Slow innovation• Expensive
The “Write-Once-Run-Anywhere” Approach
• Poor user experience• Not Complete API Coverage• High abandonment rates
The “Write Cross Platform” Approach
Xamarin
• Native UI• Native Performance• Full API Coverage• Shared codebase• Re-use skills, teams, tools and CODE
DEMO
“Hello World” app for iOS, Android and Windows Phone
How it works
•Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android•Ahead of Time Compiler for iOS•Compile and Link for Android•Windows Phone & Windows 8
Xamarin exposes 100% of the native APIs for iOS and Android
Anything you can do in Objective-C or Java can be done in C# with Xamarin
100% API Coverage
Native SDK Bindings
Cross Platform Environment•Windows 8•Mac OS X
IDEs
•Xamarin Studio•Visual Studio Nuget,
Resharper, Component Store ALM (TFS)
Why C#?
Simple Http Request
Why C#
•C# Syntax•LINQ•Task Parallel Library •Async
Share your code
•Linked files•Conditional compilation•Portable Class Libraries
Share your code approach
DEMO
Share your code between iOS, Android and Windows Phone app
Model-View-ViewModel
“Digitize” your view:
• Temperature• Date• Weather Image• Wind Speed• Actions
iPhone Android Windows Phone Mvvm
MvvmCross
•Mvvm•Mvvm Cross Platform Framework•Databinding for Android (AXML) and iOS (XIB)
•Plugins (Dialogs, Emails, Location, etc)
DEMO
Share even more code. MvvmCross
Google Glass• Xamarin.Android supports Google Glass devices
• Glass Development Kit (Sneak Peek) at the Component Store
Xamarin TestCloud
Automatically test your iOS and Android apps
• Start immediately• Hundreds of devices• Continuous Integration• Beautiful reports• Test for fragmentation• Object-based UI testing
Who uses Xamarin?
Useful Links
• Xamarin Website http://xamarin.com• MvvmCross Jump Start https://github.com/MvvmCross/MvvmCross/wiki• Test Cloud http://xamarin.com/test-cloud• Google Glass Xamarin Component https://components.xamarin.com/view/googleglass
Thank you! Questions?
Alexey Strakh@alexeystrakhhttp://[email protected]
http://eastbanctech.com http://xamarin.com http://east13.gomodev.com http://drmtm.us
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