Building Cross Platform Mobile Apps with Xamarin

Building Cross Platform Mobile Apps with Xamarin

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  Building Cross PlatformMobile Apps with Xamarin Brandon Cornett
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  What is Xamarin? •Established in 2011 by Miguel De Icaza and Nat Friedman • Built on the Mono framework • Suite of tools • Simple to adapt to • Ability to share code • Use common data transfer objects • Wraps each platform almost identically • Async / Await, LINQ, etc.
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  Why Cross PlatformApps? • Faster development cycles • Better app visibility • Shared code base • Xamarin.Forms
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  Xamarin.Forms
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  Cross Platform Techniques •Shared Projects • Uses preprocessor directives (#region, #define, #if) • Xamarin.Forms • Portable Class Libraries
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  Portable Class Libraries •Ability to choose platforms • Only limited set of .NET features • Use interfaces for platform-specific code
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  Demo
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  Xamarin Offerings • VisualStudio Integration • Mac • Forms • Apple Watch / Android Wear • Android Player • Components / NuGet • TestCloud • Insights
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  Get Started • Freestarter plans (no deployment) • Small business plans • Indie plans for $25 / month, free for students • http://xamarin.com/
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  Questions? @brandon_dev bdev.io/sqlsat2015 http://xamarin.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xamarin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)