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Android Apps Using C# With Visual Studio And Xamarin
This document discusses using Xamarin for mobile app development. Xamarin allows using C# and sharing code across platforms like iOS, Android, and Windows. It offers a single codebase while providing full native API access and high performance. Developers can use Visual Studio for drag-and-drop UI creation and target multiple screen sizes and versions. Pre-built app components help build apps faster. Xamarin compiles to ARM binaries for iOS and uses JIT for Android. Training is available from Xamarin experts.
Android Apps Using C# With Visual Studio And Xamarin
- 2. Full stack webdeveloper in Microsoft technology stack 10+ years of experience Microsoft MVP Technical Analyst@ UST Global www.techrepository.in @amaldevv
- 5. iOS WindowsAndroid Objective-C Xcode C# Visual Studio Java AndroidStudio No shared code • Many languages & development environments • Multiple teams
- 6. App Generator Lua Javascript Actionscript HTML+CSS Limited nativeAPI access • Slow performance • Poor user experience
- 7. Shared C# codebase• 100% native API access • High performance iOS C# UI Windows C# UIAndroid C# UI Shared C# Mobile
- 10. Xamarin is included inVisual Studio
- 15. Text-to-speech ActionBar PrintingFramework Renderscript NFC System.Data System.Windows System.Numerics System.Core System.ServiceModel System.Net System System.IO System.Linq System.Xml
- 17. Xamarin.iOS does fullAhead Of Time (AOT) compilation to produce an ARM binary for Apple’s App Store. Xamarin.Android takes advantage of Just In Time (JIT) compilation on the Android device.
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- 21. • Available in: •Xamarin Studio • Visual Studio • Create UI with drag & drop simplicity • Target multiple screen sizes, resolutions and Android versions • Layouts saved in standard Android XML files
- 23. Build Apps Faster •Add high quality pre-built app components directly from Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio • Beautiful, cross-platform UI controls, cloud services, and enterprise backend integrations are just a few clicks away
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- 29. Free 30 DayTrial - xamarin.com/university Unrivaled Mobile Development Training Live unlimited mobile development training from mobile experts, in your time-zone, on your schedule, and as often as you'd like.
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- 31. Questions? Thank You! Amal Dev TechnicalAnalyst – UST Global, Microsoft MVP www.techrepository.in @amaldevv
Editor's Notes
- #4 Xamarin is your complete mobile solution. Xamarin Platform is usually what you hear about which is building native iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows Apps all in C# However Xamarin offers a wide range of products for developers to go mobile including Test Cloud, Hockey App, and a way to learn all of mobile with University.
- #5 So we know what we want how do we get there? Let’s talk about the state of mobile development.
- #6 Multiple Teams Multiple Code Bases Expensive & Slow Positive = Great apps delivered to user’s platform Negative = Development hampered by multiple code bases & fragmentation
- #7 Unhappy Users Unhappy Developers Increase in Abandoned Apps Limited to what is implemented
- #8 UI build natively per platform, leveraging C# C# + XAML C# + XML C# + XIB One shared app logic code base, iOS, Android, Mac, Windows Phone, Windows Store, Windows
- #9 Let’s talk a bit about C# and why it is awesome.
- #10 Xamarin IS Native User Interface: Apps need to look and act correct per platform. Full SDK Access: As a developer we need to add the latest and greatest features Native Performance: Needs to be fast and fluid
- #11 Including the Free Community Edition
- #13 Let’s talk a bit about C# and why it is awesome.
- #16 All our .NET namespace and libraries are available in Xamarin, not only that Xamarin also provides 100% api coverage of each of Android’s api in its SDK which we can access in C# code.
- #18 There is no compromise on performance. Xamarin apps look and feel native because they are native.
- #19 Apple has a developer preview where Xamarin has alphas ready. Google does not offer this. Android versions are usually 4 to 8 weeks out for a stable release, but alphas and betas are usually earlier. Xamarin realizes how important having iOS ready because within 24 hours a large portion of iOS users upgrade Android on the other hand is much different. After 4 months on the market Android 4.4 only had 1% adoption
- #21 Single Solution for iOS, Android, and Windows Leverage Entire Microsoft Ecosystem: ReSharper Team Foundation Server Azure ASP.NET Favorite Code Coverage and Profiling Tools Starter Compatible Visual Studio 2012, 2013, and 2015 including Community Edition
- #23 Use all of your favorite libraries from NuGet or share and distribute your own!
- #25 If you are looking to get started will a full baked application simply head over to Xamarin’s pre-built page featuring these apps and many more!
- #29 Get started today with free 30 day trial of Xamarin at xamarin.com