Xamarin - Why I started learning it?
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The document summarizes a presentation about learning cross-platform mobile development with Xamarin. It discusses the speaker's background and experience, prerequisites for the session, an overview of the content which includes a learner's dilemma story and demonstrations of hello world apps in Xamarin. It also provides an overview of Xamarin's approach of writing code once that can run on multiple platforms compared to other mobile development methods.
Xamarin - Why I started learning it?
- 1. Credits: Scott Adams We will start in few minutes…
- 2. My experience of learning cross platform mobile development with Xamarin -Ankit Kashyap (Analyst Programmer) ankit.Kashyap@wipro.com Very Descriptive title. Indeed!
- 3. About Me • Proud Wiproite from last 6 yrs. • Works as Analyst Programmer for Wipro MS-AppC team • Web developer (Bunch of JS libraries+ Azure, SQL/EF; Windows Store, Xamarin/Android) • @ankitwww www.linkedin.com/in/ankitwww/
- 4. This session • Prerequisites: A little prior knowledge of C# Love for Apps Software – Nothing for this session, but you need few after this session (I will show you them) • Slides Available @ http://www.slideshare.net/AnkitKashyap/xamarin-why-i-started-learning-it • Content level – Beginners
- 5. Today’s Story • A learner's dilemma • Cross Mobile Development Approaches • Xamarin philosophy • Required Software • Hello world Demos • Where to go from here?
- 6. A learner's dilemma A Tale of “Self proclaimed COOL developer”
- 7. A learner's dilemma A Tale of “Self proclaimed COOL developer” I am not cool dev anymore! Launch Visual Studio Eclipse!
- 8. A learner's dilemma A Tale of “Self proclaimed COOL developer” C# & Mobile dev fundamentals ???
- 9. Silo’d Approach??? No Way! • Build Apps Multiple Times • Multiple Teams • Multiple Code Bases • Different toolsets
- 10. Write Once, Run Anywhere Approach • Least common denominator • Browser fragmentation • Developing & designing for 1 platform, happen to get other platforms Black Box
- 11. Xamarin’s Unique approach • Native User Interface • Native Performance • Shared code across platforms • C# & .NET Framework • Full API Coverage
- 17. Portable Class libraries • Allow you to write code and produce libraries that can be shared across multiple platforms • Can share without Source code • Some limitations like they often require extra architectural effort to separate profile specific code.
- 18. Demo time • Software • Documentation resources • University – Online Classes • Let’s build one project!!!
- 19. That’s all!! @ankitwww www.linkedin.com/in/ankitwww/ http://www.slideshare.net/AnkitKashyap/xamarin- why-i-started-learning-it
- 20. Picture Credits • Xamarin internal pics have been taken from Xamarin documentation resources (http://developer.xamarin.com/)
Editor's Notes
- #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