Learn whats new from Build 2017 announcements for Xamarin developers.

1. Build 2017
Highlights

2. Who is this guy?
Mike James
Technical Solutions Professional
@MikeCodesDotNET

3. Todays Session
Xamarin
Part 1
Azure
Part 2

4. Xamarin Part 1
• Visual Studio for Mac
• Xamarin.Forms 3.0
• Live Player
• Embedinator 4000

5. Visual Studio for Mac
Develop .NET apps using C# on macOS

6. Visual Studio for Mac
• Designed natively for the Mac
• Supports C# & F# out-of-the-box
• Roslyn powered IntelliSense & refactoring
• NuGet package manager
• MSBuild build engine
• Integrated Unit Testing
• Supports .NET Core
• File compatibility between PC & Mac

7. Whats new in Visual
Studio for Mac?

8. Simplified Installation

9. Supported Clients
Apple
• iOS
• tvOS
• watchOS
• macOS
Google
• Android
• Android Wear / TV

10. Supported Azure & Cloud
.NET CORE
• ASP.NET CORE
• Webites
• Web APIs & Backends
• .NET Core apps and services
Tools
• Azure Publish
Services
• Azure Functions
• Docker

11. Now Supporting Unity
• One click setup
• Requires Unity 5.6.1
• Productivity features
• Unity Solution Explorer
• Unity Messages IntelliSense
• Code Coloring for Unity Shaders
• Debugging

12. Bindings
Swift (Coming Soon)
• SwiftNetifier - Project and consume Swift
APIs into .NET
• Fully automated
Objective-C
• New CocoaPods Importer

13. Apple Extensions
• Create iOS and Mac Extensions within Visual
Studio on Mac & PC
• Performance & Runtime improvements

14. Apple Extensions - Runtime improvements
Last Year
Extension
#1
Xamarin
Runtime
Main App
Xamarin
Runtime
Extension
#2
Xamarin
Runtime
Now
Extension
#1
Xamarin
Runtime
Main App
Extension
#2

15. Demo Time

16. Live Player
Pair your iOS or Android device with Visual Studio
and see a preview of your app live
PREVIEW

17. Why another preview
technology?

18. Improving the first run experience
• Player apps
• Better templates
• Mobile + Cloud
• Fastlane
First Run
• Live coding
• Edit, save, view
• Faster build and
deploy times
Improve Build
&
Debug Cycles
• Faster installation
• Better defaults
• Less space on disk
Installation

19. Live Player App
• Preview Xamarin.Forms layout changes as you type
• Test UI logic on a physical device
• No need to build the entire app to see minor changes
• Supports Visual Studio Mac & PC
• Free and included in every Visual Studio subscription
• No Mac required for getting started with iOS

20. Live Player - Limitations
• Android user interfaces designed with AXML not supported
• Some iOS Storyboard features are not supported
• iOS XIB files are not supported
• Limited support for reflection (currently affect some popular
NuGet packages such as SQLite and json.NET)
• Some system classes cannot be override
• Some platform features the require provisioning can’t work in
the Xamarin Live Player App.

21. Demo Time

22. Xamarin Forms 3.0
PREVIEW
Beyond the line of business

23. 1 Year of Open Source!

24. Community engagement
• 70 contributors
• 700 pull requested merged
• 37 evolution proposals received

25. Whats new in Xamarin.Forms 3.0
• Support .NET Standard
• XAML Standard
• Fast Renderers
• Memory Reduction
• Embed native controls into Forms app
• Startup Performance Improvements
• XAMLC Performance Improvements
• New Platforms

26. Highlights
• Beyond the line of business
• New native capabilities
• Reduced memory usage, improved performance
• New Platforms
• Mobile: Tizen
• Desktop: macOS, Linux & WPF
• Forms Embedding
• Embed single pages into a native host

27. FlexLayout

28. FlexLayout
• A CSS FlexBox inspired Layout System
• Used for
• Flowing Items
• Adaptive Layout

29. FlexLayout Example
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
xmlns:x=http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml
x:Class="FormsFlexLayoutDemo.FlexDemoPage">
<FlexLayout x:Name="flexbox”>
<Label Text="Flex Element 1" />
<Label Text="Flex Element 2" />
<Label Text="Flex Element 3" />
<Label Text="Flex Element 4" />
<Label Text="Flex Element 5" />
</FlexLayout>
</ContentPage>
Flex Element 1 Flex Element 2 Flex Element 3
Flex Element 4 Flex Element 5

30. FlexLayout Properties
AlignContent
Wrap
JustifyContent
AlignItems
Order
IsIncluded
Position
AlignSelf
Grow
Overflow
Flex
Shrink

31. New Platforms

32. Samsung Tizen

33. GTK#

34. macOS

35. WPF

36. Consume .NET libraries with Objective-C

37. Embeddinator-4000 is a tool that allows your existing .NET Code to
be consumed from other programming languages and in various
different environments.

38. Languages & Environment Support
• Objective-C
• Mapping .NET code to idiomatic Objectiv-C APIs
• Java
• Mapping .NET code to idiomatic Java APIs (coming soon)
• C
• Mapping .NET code to object-oriented like C API (coming soon)

39. Why Embed Xamarin?

40. Integrate Xamarin into existing apps
Leverage Xamarin to share views,
business logic and components
across native iOS and Android apps.
Instagram using React Native Embedding

41. A good fit if…
• You’re a component developer
• You’re looking to migrate from Objective-C to Xamarin
• You need to add an existing .NET library to an iOS app
• Like React Native embedding but hate JS.

42. Download from GitHub
https://github.com/mono/Embeddinator-4000

43. Azure Stack
Deliver Azure services from your organisation’s
datacenter.
PREVIEW

44. Cloud Infrastructure
Azure Resource Manager
Azure IaaS | PaaS
Portal | PowerShell | Dev-Ops
Microsoft Azure
Public
Cloud Inspired Infrastructure
Azure Resource Manager
Azure IaaS | PaaS
Computer | Storage | App Service
Portal | PowerShell | Dev-Ops
Microsoft Azure Stack
(on premises | hosted)

45. Thank you.
Mike James
Technical Solutions Professional
Questions?

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