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Cross-platform mobile development using Xamarin and C#
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 Developmentusing Xamarin and C# Develop your iOS, Android, Windows Phone apps with .NET and C# Alexey Strakh, EastBanc Technologies
- 2. Agenda • Mono andXamarin • Cross Platform Environment and IDEs • Why C#? • Share your code • Automated UI Testing
- 3. The “Build AppsMultiple Times” Approach • • • • Platform-specific Multiple codebases Slow innovation Expensive
- 4. The “Write-Once-Run-Anywhere” Approach • Pooruser experience • Not Complete API Coverage • High abandonment rates
- 6. The “Write CrossPlatform” Approach
- 7. Xamarin • • • • • Native UI Native Performance FullAPI Coverage Shared codebase Re-use skills, teams, tools and CODE
- 8. DEMO “Hello World” appfor 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% ofthe native APIs for iOS and Android
- 11. Anything you cando in Objective-C or Java can be done in C# with Xamarin
- 12. 100% API Coverage NativeSDK Bindings
- 13. Cross Platform Environment •Windows 8 • Mac OS X
- 14. IDEs • Xamarin Studio •Visual Studio Nuget, Resharper, Component Store ALM (TFS)
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- 17. Why C# • C#Syntax • LINQ • Task Parallel Library • Async
- 18. Share your code •Linked files • Conditional compilation • Portable Class Libraries
- 19. Share your codeapproach
- 20. DEMO Share your code betweeniOS, Android and Windows Phone app
- 21. Model-View-ViewModel iPhone Android Windows Phone Mvvm “Digitize” yourview: • • • • • Temperature Date Weather Image Wind Speed Actions
- 22. MvvmCross • Mvvm • MvvmCross Platform Framework • Databinding for Android (AXML) and iOS (XIB) • Plugins (Dialogs, Emails, Location, etc)
- 23. DEMO Share even morecode. MvvmCross
- 24. Google Glass • • Xamarin.Android supportsGoogle Glass devices Glass Development Kit (Sneak Peek) at the Component Store
- 25. Xamarin TestCloud Automatically testyour iOS and Android apps • • • • • • Start immediately Hundreds of devices Continuous Integration Beautiful reports Test for fragmentation Object-based UI testing
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- 28. Useful Links • XamarinWebsite 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
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