Beginner’s Guide to Mobile Development with

XamarinPresented by Ben Henderson

Partner & Senior Software Engineer

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• Open spaces at 12:30 pm - Talk Xamarin over lunch

• Brent Schooley - “Creating Cross-Platform Mobile Apps using C# with Xamarin” - 1:50pm in room 413b

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Beginner friendly

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“Create Native Mobile iOS and Android Apps with C#

and .NET Base Class Library”

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Introduction

• What’s our motivation?

• Who are Xamarin?

• The Xamarin toolkit

• Sample app

• Tips for getting started

• Questions and (hopefully) answers

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What’s our Motivation?

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Customers want native on all platforms

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Be a Superhero

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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 Toolkit

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PricingMonday, July 29, 13

Code with C# against the Base Class Library

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Native frameworks via .NET style APIs

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Share code across platforms

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Compile code to native app

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Development Environments

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Component Store

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Training and Documentation

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Partner ProgramMonday, July 29, 13

Annual ConferenceMonday, July 29, 13

Annual ConferenceMonday, July 29, 13

Annual ConferenceMonday, July 29, 13

Annual ConferenceMonday, July 29, 13

Sample App

Hai!

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WireframeMonday, July 29, 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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Get Started

• Download Xamarin for iOS and Android

• Start a 30 day trial

• Grab code from GitHubhttps://github.com/benhenderson/yodasays

• Make an Android emulator

• Checkout the Field Service sample, toohttp://xamarin.com/prebuilt/fieldservice

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Get Started

• Watch Evolve 2013 sessionshttp://xamarin.com/evolve/2013

• Study Xamarin documentationhttp://docs.xamarin.com/

• Under promise on your first project

• Buy an Android device

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Questions &Answers

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There is no more :(

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