iOS & Android Dev in C# & Visual Studio using Xamarin
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The document provides an overview of using C# and Visual Studio for mobile app development with Xamarin, highlighting its ability to create native iOS, Android, and Windows applications from shared code. It discusses the Mono runtime as an open-source implementation of the .NET framework and outlines various development strategies such as file linking and conditional compilation. Additionally, it mentions resources and links for further exploration of Xamarin and related frameworks.
iOS & Android Dev in C# & Visual Studio using Xamarin
- 1. iOS & Android Development in C# & Visual Studio
- 4. Write Once, Run Anywhere? != !=
- 5. C# to the rescue!
- 6. How?
- 8. What is Mono? • Open source implementation of the .NET platform created by Ximian (ECMA 334/335) • • • 2001: Created to bring Windows applications to Linux 2003: Acquired by Novell with Ximian Matured at Novell in research mode; now a world-class runtime.
- 10. C# everywhere…
- 11. Xamarin • • Founded in May 2011 • Focused on mobile app development Xamarin has a perpetual license to all Mono IP: Copyrights, patents and trademarks
- 12. C# Write 100% native iOS, Android and Windows apps in C#
- 13. Anything you can do in Objective-C or Java can be done in C# with Xamarin.
- 14. Modern language C# Shared code High performance
- 17. How does it work? • • Mono “Bindings” • C# 5 .NET 4.5 exposes underlying SDKs as C#
- 19. You Us Them
- 20. iOS Development
- 21. iOS Development
- 22. iOS Apps in Visual Studio !?
- 24. C# Development Environments Mac OS X Windows Xamarin Business Edition IDE + iOS + Mac Android Mac Windows/Phone
- 25. Building for Cross Platform • • • • File Linking Portable Class Library Conditional Compilation Other frameworks..
- 26. File Linking • Easy/Avoids complexities of PCL • Can use conditional compilation
- 28. Conditional Compilation • Pre-defined Symbols • • • • #if __iOS__ #if __ANDROID__ #if __MOBILE__ #if __NETFX_CORE__
- 29. Other Frameworks… • MVVMCross • • MonoCross • • • http://monocross.net http://ifactr.com Reactive Extensions / Reactive UI • • https://github.com/MvvmCross/MvvmCross http://www.reactiveui.net/ Vernacular (Localization) • https://github.com/rdio/vernacular
- 30. Maximize Shared Code • • • • • • • SQLite-NET Web Services Business Logic Input Validation File Operations (& caching) Background Tasks Localization
- 31. Links • DietCalculator • • • https://github.com/xamarin/monotouch-samples Android • • https://github.com/nishanil/DietCalculatorVS iOS • • https://github.com/nishanil/DietCalculatorPCL https://github.com/xamarin/monodroid-samples Pre-built Apps • https://github.com/xamarin/prebuilt-apps
- 32. Cloudy Cross-Platform Apps Xamarin C# on iOS and Android Azure Parse
- 33. Azure Component
- 35. Azure Demo Initialize await a list of data await inserting a new object
- 36. Azure Demo
- 37. Cloudy Cross-Platform Apps Xamarin C# on iOS and Android Azure Parse
- 38. Parse Component
- 40. Parse Demo Initialize await a list of data await inserting a new object
- 41. Parse Demo