PUE DAY 2017: Introducción a Xamarin

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• #5: Xamarin is your complete mobile solution. Xamarin Platform is usually what you hear about which is building native iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows Apps all in C# However Xamarin offers a wide range of products for developers to go mobile including Test Cloud, Hockey App, and a way to learn all of mobile with University.
• #6: Xamarin is your complete mobile solution. Xamarin Platform is usually what you hear about which is building native iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows Apps all in C# However Xamarin offers a wide range of products for developers to go mobile including Test Cloud, Hockey App, and a way to learn all of mobile with University.
• #7: What makes up a “Native” mobile application? I am sure you have heard the “native” thrown around, but what does that really mean?
• #8: A native app needs a lot of things, but three important ones stick out: Native User Interface: Apps need to look and act correct per platform. Full SDK Access: As a developer we need to add the latest and greatest features Native Performance: Needs to be fast and fluid
• #9: So we know what we want how do we get there? Let’s talk about the state of mobile development.
• #10: Multiple Teams Multiple Code Bases Expensive & Slow Positive = Great apps delivered to user’s platform Negative = Development hampered by multiple code bases & fragmentation
• #11: Unhappy Users Unhappy Developers Increase in Abandoned Apps Limited to what is implemented
• #12: UI build natively per platform, leveraging C# C# + XAML C# + XML C# + XIB One shared app logic code base, iOS, Android, Mac, Windows Phone, Windows Store, Windows
• #13: Xamarin recently introduced Xamarin.Forms a new library for cross platform user interface. We will touch up on this later, but this enables you to be highly productive, share code, but build out UI on each platform and access platform APIs. With Xamarin.Forms you now have a nice Shared UI Code layer, but still access to platform APIs You can start from native, pick a few screens, or start with forms, and replace with native later
• #14: Let’s talk a bit about C# and why it is awesome.
• #15: Xamarin IS Native User Interface: Apps need to look and act correct per platform. Full SDK Access: As a developer we need to add the latest and greatest features Native Performance: Needs to be fast and fluid
• #16: Including the Free Community Edition
• #18: Let’s talk a bit about C# and why it is awesome.
• #20: Here is an example of creating a class with a method to get names 1 Line with LINQ to execute this command Take advantage of C# features and set properties easily
• #22: If you have ever developed for a Windows Platform before these .NET namespaces might look familiar. However, if we go to a new platform such as Windows Phone or Store we have a new SDK to use and a new set of namespaces.
• #23: You can think of iOS and Android development the same with Xamarin. You can see we have all of our .NET namespaces and libraries, but Xamarin give us 100% api coverage of each iOS API in it’s SDK that we access view C#.
• #24: The same is true for Android as well.
• #26: There is no compromise on performance. Xamarin apps look and feel native because they are native.
• #27: Apple has a developer preview where Xamarin has alphas ready. Google does not offer this. Android versions are usually 4 to 8 weeks out for a stable release, but alphas and betas are usually earlier. Xamarin realizes how important having iOS ready because within 24 hours a large portion of iOS users upgrade Android on the other hand is much different. After 4 months on the market Android 4.4 only had 1% adoption
• #30: iCircuit is made by Frank Krueger, a long time Mono & Xamarin developer. Sharing code lead to 70 to 90% code reuse across platforms speeding up development Real-time circuit simulator and editor used to design analog and digital circuits http://praeclarum.org/post/42378027611/icircuit-code-reuse-part-cinq
• #32: Single Solution for iOS, Android, and Windows Leverage Entire Microsoft Ecosystem: ReSharper Team Foundation Server Azure ASP.NET Favorite Code Coverage and Profiling Tools Starter Compatible Visual Studio 2012, 2013, and 2015 including Community Edition
• #34: Xamarin Studio on Mac offers: Android, iOS and Mac development World Class IDE with great features: Code Analysis Upload to Test Flight Git & Subversion Integration Code Completion Code Navigation Easy transition from Visual Studio The same Solution & Projects open in BOTH Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio!
• #38: Xamarin Forms is a new set of APIs allowing you to quickly and easily write shared User Interface code that is still rendered natively on each platform, while still providing direct access to the underlying SDKs if you need it.
• #39: We see here the Xamarin approach we talked about earlier This enables you to be highly productive, share code, but build out UI on each platform and access platform APIs With Xamarin.Forms you now have a nice Shared UI Code layer, but still access to platform APIs You can start from native, pick a few screens, or start with forms, and replace with native later
• #40: Xamarin.Forms is much more that just a framework and includes everything you need to get up and running to build out full native applications. If you are used to MVVM type of development you will feel right at home.
• #41: First you have a set of pages for each screen of your application There are things like Content, and MasterDetail which gives you a nice flyout With a tabbed view you get the correct look on each platform iOS on bottom, Android on top, and on WP you have a Pivot control Inside of a page are layouts A lot of options from something simple like a stack panel to complex and powerful grids
• #42: You have more than 40 controls, layouts, and pages to mix and match from. These are all of the controls you have out of the box, you can of course create your own. What is unique is you get the native control and have access to it. Consider an Entry Field On iOS it is mapped to UITextField Android it is EditText Windows Phone it is a TextBox
• #45: Xamarin is your complete mobile solution. Xamarin Platform is usually what you hear about which is building native iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows Apps all in C# However Xamarin offers a wide range of products for developers to go mobile including Test Cloud, Hockey App, and a way to learn all of mobile with University.
• #46: Well there are several challenges that we must overcome as mobile developers including….
• #47: First let’s take a look at the shear number of configurations there are between iOS and Android. As iOS progresses this number is only set to increase, and on Android it is already a HUGE number of configurations to even think about testing. iOS: 7, 7.1, 8, 8.1, 8.2
• #48: OpenSignal is a global app that publishes an annual report on Android device fragmentation based on the distinct Android device types that download their app. This is their August 2015 data, with an astonishing 24,000 device types using their app, up by 60% from just last year. Different device operating systems, form factors, screen sizes, resolutions, chip sets, and manufacturer modifications make it difficult to know that your app will work well on all devices
• #49: The fragmentation isn’t just in the devices, but as we start to build on our applications you soon found out they are ever increasingly complex.
• #50: This is where Xamarin.UITest comes in to help with this shift. Xamarin.UITest is a framework that ties in directly to the Nunit testing framework to write the UI tests. You can even run them directly against a simulator for free to do regression tests on your applications. Freely available for testing on a Simulator*
• #52: Take test scripts and test again thousands of physical devices! All Xamarin subscribers get free device time! Check store.xamarin.com for details.
• #53: Xamarin is your complete mobile solution. Xamarin Platform is usually what you hear about which is building native iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows Apps all in C# However Xamarin offers a wide range of products for developers to go mobile including Test Cloud, Hockey App, and a way to learn all of mobile with University.
• #57: Xamarin is your complete mobile solution. Xamarin Platform is usually what you hear about which is building native iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows Apps all in C# However Xamarin offers a wide range of products for developers to go mobile including Test Cloud, Hockey App, and a way to learn all of mobile with University.
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• #60: Xamarin is your complete mobile solution. Xamarin Platform is usually what you hear about which is building native iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows Apps all in C# However Xamarin offers a wide range of products for developers to go mobile including Test Cloud, Hockey App, and a way to learn all of mobile with University.