Cross Platform Mobile Application Development Using Xamarin and C#
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The document discusses cross-platform mobile development using Xamarin and C#, highlighting how developers can build applications for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone with a shared codebase. It contrasts various approaches to mobile app development, emphasizing the advantages of Xamarin, such as native UI, performance, and complete API coverage. Additionally, it covers tools for sharing code, automated UI testing, and resources for further exploration of Xamarin and MVVMCross.
Cross Platform Mobile Application Development Using Xamarin and C#
- 1. Cross Platform Mobile Development using Xamarin and C# Develop your iOS, Android, Windows Phone apps with .NET and C# Alexey Strakh, EastBanc Technologies
- 2. Agenda •Mono and Xamarin •Cross Platform Environment and IDEs •Why C#? •Share your code •Automated UI Testing
- 3. The “Build Apps Multiple Times” Approach • Platform-specific • Multiple codebases • Slow innovation • Expensive
- 4. The “Write-Once-Run-Anywhere” Approach • Poor user experience • Not Complete API Coverage • High abandonment rates
- 6. The “Write Cross Platform” Approach
- 7. Xamarin • Native UI • Native Performance • Full API Coverage • Shared codebase • Re-use skills, teams, tools and CODE
- 8. DEMO “Hello World” app for iOS, Android and Windows Phone
- 9. How it works •Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android •Ahead of Time Compiler for iOS •Compile and Link for Android •Windows Phone & Windows 8
- 10. Xamarin exposes 100% of the native APIs for iOS and Android
- 11. Anything you can do in Objective-C or Java can be done in C# with Xamarin
- 12. 100% API Coverage Native SDK Bindings
- 13. Cross Platform Environment •Windows 8 •Mac OS X
- 14. IDEs •Xamarin Studio •Visual Studio Nuget, Resharper, Component Store ALM (TFS)
- 15. Why C#?
- 17. Why C# •C# Syntax •LINQ •Task Parallel Library •Async
- 18. Share your code •Linked files •Conditional compilation •Portable Class Libraries
- 19. Share your code approach
- 20. DEMO Share your code between iOS, Android and Windows Phone app
- 21. Model-View-ViewModel “Digitize” your view: • Temperature • Date • Weather Image • Wind Speed • Actions iPhone Android Windows Phone Mvvm
- 22. MvvmCross •Mvvm •Mvvm Cross Platform Framework •Databinding for Android (AXML) and iOS (XIB) •Plugins (Dialogs, Emails, Location, etc)
- 23. DEMO Share even more code. MvvmCross
- 24. Google Glass • Xamarin.Android supports Google Glass devices • Glass Development Kit (Sneak Peek) at the Component Store
- 25. 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
- 28. 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
- 29. Thank you! Questions? Alexey Strakh @alexeystrakh http://strakh.com [email protected] http://eastbanctech.com http://xamarin.com http://east13.gomodev.com http://drmtm.us