Slides from my "Beginner's Guide to Xamarin Development" session at Codestock 2013.
Code from the sample app, YodaSays, can be found here: https://github.com/benhenderson/yodasays.
7. Young company, experienced team
Miguel de Icaza
CTO
Joseph Hill
COO
Nat Friedman
CEO
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8. • 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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9. Xamarin’s Toolkit
• C#
• Common IDE
• .NET Base Class Library
• Complete Access to Indigenous
Frameworks
• Runtimes for iOS and Android
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20. Android Resources
• Wally McClure, Jonathan Dick, et al.
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118026438.html
• Xamarin Android docs
http://docs.xamarin.com/
• Evolve session videos
http://xamarin.com/evolve/2013#android
• Native Android documentation
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21. Cross Platform
• Native Experience on Many Platforms
• Shared Code
• Efficiencies from Common Core
Framework, Language, and IDE
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