MonoDroid : A mobile cross platform option using C# and Xamarin Studio IDE.

1. MonoDroid
A Mobile Cross Platform Framework
Using C# and Xamarin Studio IDE
By
Nirmal Hota

2. Agenda
 What is MonoDroid
 How it Works
 Installation
 Xamarin Studio IDE
 Few Commonly used Android Objects
 Data passing mechanism
 Android Resources

3. What is Cross Platform Applications
 An application that runs in any platform (OS) with no or
minimal changes.

4. Why it is Cross Platform

5. Mobile Platforms Supported

6. What is MonoDroid
MonoDroid is an Android based native application
development framework from Xamarin.
This helps us creating native application for Android.
Works on .Net framework
Works with Visual Studio 2010 onwards.
It has its own IDE too, called Xamarin Studio

7. Features
Supported device features
Contacts
GPS for Geolocation
Accelerometer
Camera
Notifications
Dot Net wrappers around the Android native APIs allows it
to consume the device native features directly.
Produces native application

8. How it MonoDroid works ?
MCW : Managed Callable Wrappers
ACW : Android Callable Wrappers

9. Installation
Supports Windows and Mac environment
Mac installer installs
- Android SDK
- Xamarin Studio
- Xamarin.Android
- Xamarin.iOS
Windows installer installs
- Android SDK
- Xamarin.Android for Visual Studio
- Xamarin Studio
- Xamarin.iOS for Visual Studio
Installer : http://xamarin.com/download

10. Xamarin Studio IDE
Demo

11. Few commonly used Android Objects
Activity
- Activity is a process which creates a window on
screen which allows a view to be appeared.
Intent
- Message passing mechanism which enables an
activity to be invoked.
View
- An area to display the UI controls.

12. Few commonly used Android Objects
Bundle
- A Collection of data that makes the communication
between the activities.
AndroidMenifest.xml
- An XML file to store the app configurations

13. Data passing mechanism between
screens
Demo

14. Android Resources

15. This is not end of the road
Journey continues with explore.......
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