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Xamarin - Victim of Phonegap’s horrible reputation
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One of the biggest challenges we've faced was to explain how different Xamarin is from other crossplatform solutions we've already tried - and failed miserably.
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iOS Platform Lead / iOS Architect at Grupa Wirtualna PolskaAdvertisement
Xamarin - Victim of Phonegap’s horrible reputation
- Xamarin Victim of Phonegap’s horrible reputation Gabor Wnuk, iOS Platform Lead / iOS Architect github.com/GaborWnuk
- What is Xamarin?
- What is Xamarin? Traditional Xamarin approach With Xamarin.Forms: more code sharing, native controls ~70% - 90% code reuse ~90% - 99% code reuse
- What is Xamarin? Business Layer Realm.io, Networking (NSURLSession / okhttp), ADS
- What is Xamarin? • C# • bought by Microsoft and integrated with Visual Studio • open source • FREE • created by genius (Miguel de Icaza, Midnight Commander, GNOME, Gnumeric, uses OSX, never received a degree)
- Why You should forget everything You hate about Cordova based solutions?
- Xamarin is not Phonegap. Not at all.
- Xamarin is not Phonegap • iOS: 100% native ARM, ~ 1% slower than native Swift ~ 30% faster than Objective-C • Android: Dalvik / ART <-> Mono VM bridge ~ 260% faster* than native Java ;) github.com/harrycheung/Mobile-App-Performance
- Xamarin is not Phonegap github.com/harrycheung/Mobile-App-Performance 0.427s 0.490s 0.745s 3.012s Swift Xamarin Objective-C Cordova
- Xamarin is not Phonegap github.com/harrycheung/Mobile-App-Performance 0.461s 1.120s 2.948s 8.878s C++ Android Xamarin JAVA Android Cordova
- That’s nice. How can i start?
- How can i start? • Download Xamarin Alpha Channel from xamarin.com • Clone example for this keynote from github.com/GaborWnuk/xamarin-weather-example • Listen carefully.
- How can i start: project structure for Xamarin.Forms • Shared project, shared between Android and iOS • Android project • iOS project
- How can i start: shared project • Database • Network Communication • Other business logic consistent across all platforms • In our case - UI
- How can i start: Android • Platform specific code base • Platform specific UI • Platform specific assets (hdpi, xhdpi, xxhdpi and so on) • All of above is optional
- How can i start: iOS • Platform specific code base • Platform specific UI • Platform specific assets (also vector) • Access to Storyboard • All of above is optional
- Result?
- What about our workflow?
- What about our workflow? • Continous Integration?
- Continous Integration? • Full Jenkins support • Fastlane not officially supported (as of 01.06.2016) but easy to apply
- What about our workflow? • Continous Integration? • Testing?
- Testing? • Full Calabash support. Well, they’ve created it. • Xamarin Test Cloud
- Xamarin Test Cloud
- What about our workflow? • Continous Integration? • Testing? • CocoaPods?
- CocoaPods? Sharpie!
- What about our workflow? • Continous Integration? • Testing? • CocoaPods? • Third party components?
- Third party components? NuGET!
- What about our workflow? • Continous Integration? • Testing? • CocoaPods? • Third party components? • Community?
- What about our workflow? • Continous Integration? • Testing? • CocoaPods? • Third party components? • Community? • IDE?
- What about our workflow? • Continous Integration? • Testing? • CocoaPods? • Third party components? • Community? • IDE? • Language?
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