Presentation (Dutch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FkDt5coM6k During the second week of October, Xamarin organised the yearly "Evolve" conference in Atlanta. During this conference, Xamarin unveiled their latest set of tools to make the life of a mobile software developer a lot easier. Examples are Xamarin.Insights to monitor apps, Sketches to do live-coding and the Profiler to profile apps. During this presentation, we dive into the conference, but mainly focus on the tools that have been released.

1. Evolve 2014
What's new in the
world of Xamarin

2. Mark Rexwinkel
@markrexwinkel
Marco Kuiper
@marcofolio
Youp Hulsebos
@youphulsebos

3. Evolve 2014

4. Atlanta BBQ Aquarium

5. Darwin Lounge

7. New partners
Component vendors for Xamarin.Forms
• Syncfusion
• Telerik Chart
• Infragistics
• Steema TeeChart
• ComponentOne
• DevExpress

8. Free E-book
http://tinyurl.com/ebook-xamarin-forms

9. Beta

10. Android Player
http://xamarin.com/android-player

11. Sketches

13. Xamarin Sketches
Interactive, Real-Time Code Experiments
“ Sketches provide a live coding environment that
executes code as the developer types and
provides a live display of the data being produced. “
- Xamarin API

14. Platform support
C#
• Xamarin.iOS (Unified & Classical API)
• Xamarin.Android
• Xamarin.Mac
• Xamarin.Forms

16. Notes
Current & Future
• F# support
• No class/method support; use Tuple and Func
• No Xcode 6.1 support
• Android in early preview
• Only on Mac
• Save directly in your code
• Custom Quick Looks (renderers)
• Line by line-evaluation

17. Xamarin.Insights

18. Xamarin.Insights

19. Xamarin.Insights
Features
• Crash and issue reporting
• Session and user monitoring
• Secure and private
• Identifying users
It is free (for now)

20. Xamarin.Insights
How it works

21. Xamarin.Insights
Adding Xamarin.Insights to your App
• NuGet package Xamarin.Insights
• Supports:
• Xamarin.iOS
• Xamarin.Android
• Xamarin.Mac
• Xamarin.Forms
• Mono
• Windows
• Windows Mobile

22. Xamarin.Insights
Android
//"Android:"Initialize"in"the"Activity"with"MainLauncher"="true"
Xamarin.Insights.Initialize("...","this.ApplicationContext);"
"
• Required permissions
• INTERNET
• Optional permissions
• ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE & ACCESS_WIFI_STATE
• READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
• BATTERY_STATS
• READ_PHONE_STATE
• READ_LOGS & BIND_NOTIFICATION_LISTENER_SERVICE

23. Xamarin.Insights
iOS & Windows Phone
//"iOS:"Initialize"in"the"main()"method"before"UIApplication.Main()"
Insights.Initialize("...");"
"
//"Windows"Phone"
Insights.Initialize("...");"
"

24. Xamarin.Insights
Identification
//"Basic"
Insights.Identify("Unique"user"id",""Key",""Value");"
"
//"Advanced"
Insights.Identify("Unique"user"id","dictionary);"
"

25. Xamarin.Insights
Reporting
//"Simple"exception"logging"
Insights.Report(exception);"
"
//"Logging"extra"data"
Insights.Report(exception,"extraDataDictionary);"
"

26. Xamarin.Insights
Tracking
//"Event"tracking"
Insights.Track(“event”,"dictionary);"
"
//"Time"tracking"
using"(var"handle"="Insights.TrackTime("TimeToLogin"))"
{"
}"
"

28. Xamarin.UITest

29. How does it work
It doesn’t

30. Xamarin.UITest on Android
Client Server
Xamarin
UITest
Test
Server
Your
JSON over http App

31. Xamarin.UITest on iOS
Client Server
Xamarin
UITest
Your
App
Test
Server JSON over http

32. Xamarin Testcloud
• Supports Xamarin.UITest
• Parallelization
• Video Playback
• Per device
• Per test
• Easier and easier to use
• Wizards incoming!

34. Profiler
http://xamarin.com/profiler

35. Profiler
Native UI

36. Profiler
Features
Two key instruments
Sampling
Call tree
Memory snapshots

37. Profiler
Supports
• Support for iOS and Android
• Devices
• Emulators
Limitations
• No Profiling Mac apps
• No support for profiling Release builds
• On windows no:
• Snapshots
• Call tree sorting

39. Closing

40. Recap
What’s new?
• Xamarin Insights
• Xamarin Platform
• Xamarin Android Player
• Sketches
• Profiler
• Xamarin Test Cloud Updates
• Xamarin.UITest
• Screen recording
• Partnerships

41. “ We want to give you the best tools
possible and best platform possible
to build incredible software. “
- Nat Friedman, CEO Xamarin

42. Want more?
Conference videos
evolve.xamarin.com

43. Thank you!