This is the first session of the Xamarin Dev Days - Rome 18 Nov 2016

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11. iOS WindowsAndroid
Objective-C
Xcode
C#
Visual Studio
Java
Android Studio
No shared code • Many languages & development environments • Multiple teams

12. App Generator
Lua
Javascript
Actionscript
HTML+CSS
Limited native API access • Slow performance • Poor user experience

13. Shared C# codebase • 100% native API access • High performance
iOS C# UI Windows C# UIAndroid C# UI
Shared C# Mobile

14. Microsoft.Phone Microsoft.Networking Windows.Storage Windows.Foundation Microsoft.Devices
System.Data System.Windows System.Numerics System.Core System.ServiceModel
System.Net System System.IO System.Linq System.Xml

15. MapKit UIKit iBeacon CoreGraphics CoreMotion
System.Data System.Windows System.Numerics System.Core System.ServiceModel
System.Net System System.IO System.Linq System.Xml

16. Text-to-speech ActionBar Printing Framework Renderscript NFC
System.Data System.Windows System.Numerics System.Core System.ServiceModel
System.Net System System.IO System.Linq System.Xml

17. Xamarin.iOS does full Ahead Of Time
(AOT) compilation to produce an ARM
binary for Apple’s App Store.
Xamarin.Android takes advantage of
Just In Time (JIT) compilation on the
Android device.

19. ✓Always Up-to-Date
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21. Xamarin is included
in Visual Studio

22. Xamarin.com/Download

23. • Create UI with drag & drop
simplicity
• Target multiple screen
sizes, resolutions and
Android versions
• Layouts saved in standard
Android XML files

24. • Multi-Touch Enabled
• Super Fast
• Rotate, screenshots,
location changes, and
more!
http://bit.ly/hyperv-android

25. • Follows familiar Visual Studio
designer idioms
• Supports all UIKit elements
• Edit custom and 3rd party
components
• Live preview of changes to
properties

26. • Multi-Touch Enabled
• Pressure Sensitive
• Super Fast
• Rotate, screenshots,
location changes
• Never leave VS

32. Xamarin.iOS Xamarin.Android

35. Mac
iOS
Android
Windows Phone
Calca iCircuit Touch Draw
86%
14%
72%
28%
77%
23%
70%
30%
61%39%
94%
6%
88%
12%
76%
24%
90%
10%

38. Shared C# Backend

39. What if we didn’t have to
write this code?
What if we could access
it from shared code?
UI+APIs UI + APIsUI + APIs
Battery
GPS
Lights
Notifications
Settings
Text To Speech
Battery
GPS
Lights
Notifications
Settings
Text To Speech
Battery
GPS
Lights
Notifications
Settings
Text To Speech

40. TextToSpeech
Speak(“Hello World”);
AVSpeechSynthesizer SpeechSynthesizer

41. Common API

42. 10 Minute Break
Nicolò Carandini
@TPCWare
Microsoft MVP
n.carandini@outlook.com blog.tpcware.com @TPCWare