Beginner’s Guide to Mobile Development with

XamarinPresented by Ben Henderson

Partner & Senior Software Engineer

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Overview

• Who are Xamarin?

• Xamarin’s Toolkit

• Xamarin’s Niche

• Hello DevLink - iOS and Android

• Cross Platform Sample

• Questions and Answers

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Who are Xamarin?

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Young company, experienced team

Miguel de IcazaCTO

Joseph HillCOO

Nat FriedmanCEO

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• 1999 Ximian - “The Mono Guys”

• 2004 Novell buys Ximian

• Sept. 2009 MonoTouch v1.0

• Early 2011 Mono for Android v1.0

• Feb. 2011 Attachmate buys Novell. Fires US workers, owns IP.

• May 2011 Xamarin is formed. Starting from scratch.

• July 2011 Xamarin and Novell reach IP agreement.

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Xamarin’s Toolkit

• C#

• Common IDE

• .NET Base Class Library

• Complete Access to Indigenous Frameworks

• Runtimes for iOS and Android

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Developer Tools

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Compiles to native appFriday, September 6, 13

Xamarin’s Niche

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Abstracted Experience

Native Experience

Less Complex More Complex

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It’s .NET!Friday, September 6, 13

iOS Demo

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iOS Resources

• Bryan Costanichhttp://www.apress.com/9781430231745

• Wally McClure, Craig Dunn, et al.http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047063782X.html

• Xamarin iOS docshttp://docs.xamarin.com/ios

• Evolve session videoshttp://xamarin.com/evolve/2013#ios

• Native iOS documentation

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Android Demo

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Android x86 / HAXM Emulator

• Xamarin Guidelineshttp://docs.xamarin.com/guides/android/deployment,_testing,_and_metrics/configuring_the_x86_emulator

• Intel HAXM Installerhttp://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-hardware-accelerated-execution-manager

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Android Resources

• Wally McClure, Jonathan Dick, et al.http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118026438.html

• Xamarin Android docshttp://docs.xamarin.com/

• Evolve session videoshttp://xamarin.com/evolve/2013#android

• Native Android documentation

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Cross Platform

• Native Experience on Many Platforms

• Shared Code

• Efficiencies from Common Core Framework, Language, and IDE

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Sample X-Platform App

Hai!

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WireframesFriday, September 6, 13

“Yoda Says” App

• iOS and Android Clients

• Shared Code - consume web service, persist data, model, and view model

• Platform Abstraction - create image

• Component Store - iOS progress HUD

• Open Source Code - TinyIoC, RestSharp, SimpleJSON

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Demo

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Project Structure

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Native and Shared Concepts

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Sample Interaction: Translation

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X-Platform Resources

• Greg Shackleshttp://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024002.do

• Field Service samplehttp://xamarin.com/prebuilt/fieldservice

• Evolve session videoshttp://xamarin.com/evolve/2013#cross-platform

• MvvmCross frameworkhttps://github.com/slodge/MvvmCross

• YodaSays source on GitHubhttps://github.com/benhenderson/yodasays

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Get Started Today!

• Download Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android

• Download Xcode and “obtain” a Mac

• Start a 30 day trial

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Questions &Answers

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There is no more :(

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