1.
Getting Started with iOS & Android
Development using Xamarin
Mark Arteaga
Developer & President
mark@redbitdev.com | @MarkArteaga | @RedBitDev

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Technology Partners

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Agenda
• Introductions
• Mobile Ate the World
• Why Xamarin
• Demos
• Wrap Up

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MOBILE ATE THE WORLD
http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/3/29/presentation-mobile-ate-the-world

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What happened in 2014

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Mobile Adoption

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WHY XAMARIN

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What is the Xamarin Platform?
Xamarin let's you develop, test and monitor your released
application for iOS, Android and Windows Phone
Xamarin Development Platform
TestDesign Develop Integrate Monitor

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Approaches to mobile app development
There are three common ways to creating mobile applications,
each with specific strengths and weaknesses
Silo Black Box

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Silo approach
Can write the same application multiple times using the
vendor's tools
iOS App
Obj-C
Swift
XCode
Android App
Java
Eclipse
A. Studio
Windows App
C#
Visual
Studio

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Black Box approach
Can build app using high-
level tools that convert a
single code base (typically in
HTML/JavaScript) to an app
for each platform

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Xamarin approach
Can build native apps using C# and .NET, sharing the business
logic but leveraging each platform's benefits and paradigms
Traditional Xamarin approach

13.
Xamarin approach
Xamarin.Forms enables even more code-sharing through a
shared UI definition when deep platform integration is
unnecessary
Traditional Xamarin approach Xamarin.Forms approach
Xamarin.Forms

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Anything you can do in Objective-C, Swift,
or Java can be done in C# (or F#) with Xamarin

15.
OVERVIEW OF TOOLS
Demo

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Components available - Pages
UIViewController Activity Page

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Components available - Layouts

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Components available - Views

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Components available - Cells

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Xamarin.Forms
DataBinding Engine

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XAMARIN FORMS
Demo

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Feature Supported in Xamarin.Forms
XAML 2009 compliance ✓
Shapes (Rectangle, Ellipse, Path, etc.) BoxView
Resources, Styles and Triggers ✓
Data binding ✓ *not all features
Data templates ✓
Control templates Custom renderers
Render Transforms ✓
Animations Code-only
Custom XAML behaviors ✓
Custom markup extensions ✓
Value converters ✓

23.
SOME MORE XAMARIN FORMS - XAML
Demo

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Xamarin Forms Previewer

25.
Session Recap
• Introductions
• Mobile Ate the World
• Why Xamarin
• Demo
• Wrap Up

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THANK YOU!
Mark Arteaga
President
mark@redbitdev.com | @MarkArteaga | @RedBitDev