Video: http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/VS-Toolbox-Xamarin-Forms Robert welcomes James Montemagno, a developer evangelist at Xamarin, back on the show for another series on building cross-platform apps with Xamarin and C#. In this episode, part one of four, we take a look at Xamarin.Forms, a cross-platform UI toolkit that sits on top of Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Windows Phone. We will see how to share not only the business logic of an application, but also how to build a fully native cross-platform UI completely in XAML, including features such as data binding, styles, and triggers. Resources: Try Xamarin today: www.xamarin.com Follow James on Twitter and his personal blog Xamarin developer documentation and blog Parts one, two, three and four of James' debut Xamarin series

1. Developing iOS, Android,
and Windows Phone apps
in C# and XAML with
Xamarin.Forms
James Montemagno
@JamesMontemagno
Developer Evangelist

2. James
Montemagno
Developer
Evangelist
Who is this guy?
james@xamarin.com
http://motz.codes
@JamesMontemagno

3. Xamarin—A Complete Mobile Solution
Design Develop Integrate
Learn
Xamarin Platform
Test Monitor

4. Xamarin’s Unique Approach
Native with!
Code Sharing!

5. Everything You Love

6. Portable
Class
Libraries

7. Xamarin + Xamarin.Forms
With Xamarin.Forms: !
more code-sharing, native controls!
Xamarin Native approach!
Xamarin.Forms!

8. What’s Included
Xamarin.Forms!
§ 40+ Pages, Layouts, and Controls!
§ Build from code behind or XAML!
§ Two-way Data Binding!
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§ Navigation!
§ Animation API!
§ Dependency Service!
§ Messaging Center!

9. Pages
Content MasterDetail Navigation Tabbed Carousel

10. Layouts
Stack Absolute Relative Grid ContentView ScrollView Frame

11. Controls
ActivityIndicator! BoxView! Button! DatePicker! Editor!
Entry! Image! Label! ListView! Map!
OpenGLView! Picker! ProgressBar! SearchBar! Slider!
Stepper! TableView! TimePicker! WebView! EntryCell!
ImageCell! SwitchCell! TextCell! ViewCell!

12. Xamarin.Forms Ecosystem

13. Xamarin.Forms Example
Use a single API to generate native, platform-
specific user interfaces
At runtime, each Xamarin.Forms page and its
controls are mapped to platform-specific
native user interface elements

14. Live Coding
Adventure

15. Get Started
Xamarin.com

16. Unrivaled Mobile Development Training
Live unlimited mobile development training from mobile experts,
in your time-zone, on your schedule, and as often as you'd like.
Xamarin.com/University

17. Resources
§ Documentation!
§ http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/xamarin-forms/!
§ XAML Documentation!
§ http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/xamarin-forms/
xaml-for-xamarin-forms/!
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§ Samples!
§ https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms-samples!
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18. Get the Book
§ Free Preview Edition!
§ By Charles Petzold!!
§ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NXYJ8DK/!
§ iBooks, Google Play, Kindle, and more.!
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19. Thank you!
James
Montemagno
Developer
Evangelist
james@xamarin.com
http://motz.codes
@JamesMontemagno