Cross-platform mobile development using Xamarin and C#
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The document discusses cross-platform mobile development using Xamarin and C#, highlighting its advantages like native UI, performance, and full API coverage across iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. It presents a 'write cross-platform' approach as superior to traditional methods, emphasizing code sharing and the use of MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) frameworks. Additionally, it includes resources and tools for automated testing and app development integration.
Cross-platform mobile 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 âBuild Apps Multiple Timesâ Approach ⢠⢠⢠⢠Platform-specific Multiple codebases Slow innovation Expensive
- 4. The âWrite-Once-Run-Anywhereâ Approach ⢠Poor user experience ⢠Not Complete API Coverage ⢠High abandonment rates
- 6. The âWrite Cross Platformâ Approach
- 7. Xamarin ⢠⢠⢠⢠⢠Native UI Native Performance Full API Coverage Shared codebase Re-use skills, teams, tools and CODE
- 8. DEMO âHello Worldâ 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 iPhone Android Windows Phone Mvvm âDigitizeâ your view: ⢠⢠⢠⢠⢠Temperature Date Weather Image Wind Speed Actions
- 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