MonoTouch 5.2 Introduction

An Introduction to
MonoTouch 5.2
Mobile App Development Platform
for iOS

http://xamarin.com/

Introducing MonoTouch 5.2 from Xamarin

1. Who is Xamarin?
2. MonoTouch and Mono for Android Overview
3. MonoTouch 5.2
4. Differentiators
5. Customers & Case Studies
6. Summing Up

More Info: http://xamarin.com/

Copyright 2012 © Xamarin Inc., All rights reserved

Xamarin Company Snapshot
 Founded in 2011 with the mission to make it fast, easy and fun to build great mobile
apps.
 Xamarin’s products:
 MonoTouch, Mono for Android
 Simplify creation, maintenance and operation of high-performance, cross-platform,
native UX mobile applications
 Phones, tablets and embedded devices - iOS, Android and Windows
 Xamarin stewards the Mono project: open source, cross-platform implementation of
C# / .NET framework
 Unique, customer-proven technology:
 500 developers download/day on average
 Enterprise: 3M, Medtronic, Target, TIBCO, etc.
 Consumer: AOL, iCircuit, Monster, Rdio, etc.
 Consultants / SIs: Accenture, ITR Mobility, etc.


MONOTOUCH AND MONO FOR
ANDROID

MonoTouch and Mono for Android


Native API Access - iOS
1,700 C# classes
 1:1 mapping to native
 Objective-C libraries User Code
 CoreFoundation
 iOS C libraries MonoTouch.* OpenTK System.*
Projected into C#
 Strongly typed OpenGL
 C# Events/Properties ObjC
Libraries
C
Libraries
and
OpenAL
Unix APIs

 Surface Lambdas Stacks


Native API Access - Android
4,000 C# classes
 1:1 mapping to native
 Java libraries User Code
 OpenGL
 Android C Libraries C# Android.* OpenTK System.*
Projected into C#
 Strongly typed
 Enumerations Java
Android.*
C
Libraries
OpenGL
Stacks
Unix APIs

 C# Events/Properties
 Surface Lambdas


Mono on Mobile
C# and its libraries on Mobile Devices
 Garbage Collection
 Strongly typed objects
 High performance

Strong Typing:
 Intellisense
 Helps explore the API from the IDE


Xamarin.* APIs

Xamarin Mobile

Notifications
GeoLocation

Reporting
Photos +
Contacts

Audio
Video

Crash
 Most of the differentiation happens in the UI
 Some platform APIs do not bring much value (sometimes they’re not great APIs)
 Xamarin.Mobile is an extra layer to isolate developers from the platform.


Xamarin Cross-Platform Apps


Apps Showcase: http://xamarin.com/apps


MonoTouch 5.2 – Key Features
Faster and easier creation
of iPhone/iPad Dialogs
Improved memory
management to find,
diagnose and fix memory
leaks
New garbage collection
engine
Easier on-device unit
testing


MonoTouch 5.2 – Faster Dialogs
Faster and easier creation of iPhone/iPad
Dialogs
 MonoTouch.Dialog is a new API that allows
developers to create HIG-compliant iOS
forms and dialog boxes
 Shows table-based information without
needing to write dozens of delegates and
controllers for the user interface
 Includes UITableView support and pull-to-
refresh as well as built-in searching
 Creates user interfaces dynamically on
demand from JSON data served up online
 More Info: MonoTouch.Dialog tutorial and browse
the online API documentation.

MonoTouch 5.2 – Memory Mgmt.
Improved memory management to
find, diagnose and fix memory leaks
 New MonoTouch memory profiler
 Track managed objects’ memory usage
growth
 Track which objects are still referenced
 Track where objects are being referenced
from
 Generational garbage collector
 Improves garbage collection diagnostics

 More info: New MonoTouch memory profiler and
Generational garbage collector


MonoTouch 5.2 – Unit Testing
Easier on-device unit testing
 Touch.Unit
 New unit testing framework to perform
on-device testing of individual functions
and procedures in MonoTouch
applications
 Run tests manually, or automate them
with Instruments

 More info: Tutorial on Unit Testing in
MonoTouch


MonoTouch 5.2 – Additional Capabilities

 300+ customer requested
enhancements that make it
easier to develop great iOS
applications.

 A full listing of new features and
capabilities can be viewed from
here: http://blog.xamarin.com/


Differentiators
Harness the full power of
C# and .NET.
Write shorter, simpler, and
more maintainable code
Use features like
LINQ, anonymous
types, lambdas and more.


Differentiator: Less Code!
Faster, easier, less expensive maintenance
Objective C


Differentiator: Less Code!
Faster, easier, less expensive maintenance
C#


Xamarin Customers
600+ new developers each day
Amazing apps: http://xamarin.com/apps


Xamarin Customers

Medtronic
mStar Application

 Integrate to back-end systems
 Sales orders
 Product registration

“The mStar application automates
manual processes and makes them
available 24/7 for the reps”
Jeff Bipes,
IT Manager, Field Services


Xamarin Customers

JustEnough
Mobile SFA for NetSuite

 Fully integrated to NetSuite
 Provides field sales teams instant access
to opportunity and customer data, sales
forecasts and real-time calendar and task
management.

“Using .NET on the iPad is like a dream come
true”
Johan Otto,
VP Mobile Development Click image to play video



SUMMING UP

Xamarin & MonoTouch - Summing Up
 Leading mobile app development technology
 500+ new developers each day

 Solving cross-platform mobile app development problems
for customers
 Reduce development time, complexity and cost
 Improve mobile app quality, stability and performance

 Unique, customer-proven technology and capabilities
 C# and .NET mobile app development for phones, tablets and
embedded devices running, iOS, Android and Windows


More online
• xamarin.com/apps
• xamarin.com/monotouch
• xamarin.com/android
• docs.xamarin.com
• blog.xamarin.com
• youtube.com/xamarinhq
• twitter.com/xamarinhq
• linkedin.com/company/xamarin
• stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mono

An Introduction to
MonoTouch 5.2
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Targeting iOS


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