Binary Studio Academy 2016. Cross-Platform Mobile Development
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The document provides an introduction to Xamarin for cross-platform mobile development, outlining its capabilities and how it compares to native development. It highlights the advantages of reusable code and full .NET framework support while mentioning the suitability of Xamarin.Forms for projects without custom design. Additionally, it includes a real app example and a link to its source code on GitHub.
Binary Studio Academy 2016. Cross-Platform Mobile Development
- 1. Cross-Platform Mobile Development Introduction to Xamarin
- 3. Agenda 1. What is Xamarin? How does it work? 2. Suitability for use in complex projects. 3. Difference between native approach and Xamarin on the real sample. 4. What about Xamarin.Forms? 5. Results
- 4. Native approach iOS App Objective-C XCode Android App Java Android Studio Windows Phone App C# Visual Studio
- 5. Xamarin approach iOS App Android App Windows Phone App Shared C# Code Xamarin Studio or Visual Studio
- 6. Xamarin approach User Interface App Layer Core Library Business Layer Service Access Layer Data Access Layer User Interface App Layer User Interface App Layer ~ 70-90% reusable code
- 7. iOS Project Android Project Compilation AOT Compile and Link ARM binary Runs natively .IPA .APK IL + JIT Mono runtime
- 8. What about complex enough projects? Internet BLE Windows Server ASP.Net WCF Web API ...
- 9. Let’s make the real app Start Stop Latitude: 0.0 Longitude: 0.0 Updated: 00:00:00 Already available at: https://github.com/ilchenkob/Xamarin.MeetForIt
- 10. Android Application ServicesActivitiesResources Drawable Models and Data Objects Layout Menu Values Activity Service
- 11. iOS Application ViewControllerModel Application Delegate View Controller UIWindow Views and UI Objects UI Application Data Objects Documents
- 12. View View Xamarin Application for iPhone and Android iOS ProjectCore Project (PCL) Android Project Model ViewModel Model Model Service Interface Activity ViewController Service Implementation Service Implementation AppDelegate AndroidManifest.xml
- 13. .Net support 1. Stable support of all of the .Net framework 4.5 and C# 5.0 2. Support of C# 6.0 is already done but it’s unstable
- 14. Xamarin.Forms Core Library Business Layer Service Access Layer Data Access Layer Shared UI Code in XAML App Layer App Layer App Layer Core Library Business Layer Service Access Layer Data Access Layer App Layer App Layer App Layer UI Layer UI Layer UI Layer
- 15. Results 1. Xamarin gives you ability to create awesome cross-platform mobile apps no worse than native tools gives. 2. Full support of .Net Framework 4.5 and C# 5.0 (stable support of C# 6.0 currently in progress). 3. If you already has .Net backend, then you can reuse big part of your code. 4. Xamarin.Forms is good but only if you don't have your own app design. 5. Sample is already available at: https://github.com/ilchenkob/Xamarin.MeetForIt
- 16. Any questions?