OzAltNet Fast-ANDroid-furious

Fast ANDroid Furious Android with C# in 20 minutes

What is Mono?
Open source implementation of the CLR
Linux, MacOS X, Solaris, BSD, Wii, PS3
Started in 2001 as Ximian , purchased by Novell in 2003, released in 2004
2009: MonoTouch created (released 2010)
2010: MonoDroid created (released 2011)
2011: Novell purchased by Attachmate ($2.2b)
entire Mono team sacked > startup Xamarin created...
http://www.mono-project.com/
http://github.com/mono

What is was Mono for Android? Mono ('Silverlight subset') + Android API bindings + 'AXML' intelli-sense support + Visual Studio plug-in (or MonoDevelop) = Android application
http://mono-android.net/
Released April 2011 Retired May 2011??

Mono for Android System Req's
To play in the simulator ( FREE )
Mac OSX with MonoDevelop OR Windows (VisualStudio 2010 or MonoDevelop)
Oracle's Java SDK
Google's Android SDK
Mono for Android Trial (and MonoDevelop IDE)
To get onto a device
Mono for Android Prof or Enterprise license (USD399+)
To get onto Android Market
Google Developer account (USD25)

//TODO:
Activity
OnCreate
SetContentView and FindViewById<T>
/layout/ , /res/ and R esources
AndroidManifest.xml
Application
OnCreate
Intent
PutExtra() and GetStringExtra

Activity Lifecycle
Active/running
Paused
Stopped
Killed/shutdown
You should always call up to your superclass when implementing these methods

Details!
Debugging
Linking
UI
iOS
Android
Navigation
Databinding
F.A.Q.

Debugging
'soft debugger' gets embedded in your app
Can be configured (IP address, port)
Binaries are much larger (of course)
Allows breakpoints, step-through, call stack
Works via TCP/IP, so you can debug the Simulator AND the device (untethered, so long as wifi is enabled).

Linking
Mono compiler strips out unused classes/libraries
Mobile devices – size matters!
Trap for young players: it might strip out stuff you want to keep!
Classes/methods/properties used via Reflection
Classes/methods/properties used in serialization operations
By default it's disabled in DEBUG, so stuff will work there and mysteriously break in RELEASE [ Preserve (AllMembers = true )]

Navigation
Getting from screen to screen
StartActivity()
Intent
SetClass typeof(AnActivity)
PutExtra
Can also 'trigger' other applications
PushViewController()
UIViewController
Subclass and pass instance
… also UITabBar items

Databinding (lists)
More work that you are used to...
BaseAdapter
GetView
Count
GetItem
(.ItemClick is attached to the ListView itself)
UITableViewSource
GetCell
RowsInSection
RowSelected

'translation'

Example: RestGuide Runs on Android, iOS and Windows Phone 7 github.com/conceptdev

Example: MIX11 Runs on Android, iOS and Windows Phone 7 mix11.confapp.com

Any questions?

Professional iPhone w/ MonoTouch

OzAltNet Fast-ANDroid-furious

by Craig Dunn on May 31, 2011

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