visual studio toolbox - introduction to xamarin.forms

Developing iOS, Android, and Windows Phone apps in C# and XAML with Xamarin.Forms

James Montemagno @JamesMontemagno

Developer Evangelist

James Montemagno

Developer Evangelist

Who is this guy?

james@xamarin.com http://motz.codes @JamesMontemagno

Xamarin—A Complete Mobile Solution

Design Develop Integrate

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Xamarin Platform

Test Monitor

Xamarin’s Unique Approach

Native with!Code Sharing!

Everything You Love

Portable  Class  Libraries  

Xamarin + Xamarin.Forms

With Xamarin.Forms: !more code-sharing, native controls!

Xamarin Native approach!

Xamarin.Forms!

What’s Included

Xamarin.Forms!

§  40+ Pages, Layouts, and Controls!§  Build from code behind or XAML!

§  Two-way Data Binding!!§  Navigation!

§  Animation API!

§  Dependency Service!

§  Messaging Center!

Pages

Content MasterDetail Navigation Tabbed Carousel

Layouts

Stack Absolute Relative Grid ContentView ScrollView Frame

Controls

ActivityIndicator! BoxView! Button! DatePicker! Editor!

Entry! Image! Label! ListView! Map!

OpenGLView! Picker! ProgressBar! SearchBar! Slider!

Stepper! TableView! TimePicker! WebView! EntryCell!

ImageCell! SwitchCell! TextCell! ViewCell!

Xamarin.Forms Ecosystem

Xamarin.Forms Example

Use a single API to generate native, platform-specific user interfaces

At runtime, each Xamarin.Forms page and its controls are mapped to platform-specific native user interface elements

Live Coding Adventure

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Resources

§  Documentation!§  http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/xamarin-forms/!

§  XAML Documentation!§  http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/xamarin-forms/

xaml-for-xamarin-forms/!!

§  Samples!§  https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms-samples!

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Thank you!James Montemagno

Developer Evangelist

james@xamarin.com http://motz.codes @JamesMontemagno