What's new in iOS 9, and how to use it from Xamarin.Forms!

1. github.com/conceptdev/xamarin-‐ios-‐samples
github.com/conceptdev/xamarin-‐forms-‐samples

2. Craig
Dunn
Developer Evangelist, Xamarin
craig@xamarin.com conceptdev.
blogspot.com
@conceptdev

3. 3D Touch
ATS
iPad Multitasking
Search
UI
Peek and Pop
Declare Exceptions
Split Screen
NSUserActivity
Quick Actions
HTTPS
Slide Over
CoreSpotlight
Contacts
UIStackView
UICollectionView
Pressure Sensitive
Opt-‐out
Picture in picture
Web Markup

4. 3D Touch
ATS
iPad Multitasking
Search
UI
Peek and Pop
Declare Exceptions
Split Screen
NSUserActivity
Quick Actions
HTTPS
Slide Over
CoreSpotlight
Contacts
UIStackView
UICollectionView
Pressure Sensitive
Opt-‐out
Picture in picture
Web Markup
Xamarin.Forms!
Xamarin.Forms!
Xamarin.Forms!
Xamarin.Forms!
Xamarin.Forms!

5. ✓ Quick Actions
✓ Peek & Pop
✓ Pressure Sensitivity

6. ✓ HTTPS (﴾with caveats)﴿
✓ Declare Exceptions
✓ Opt-‐out

7. Disabling in Info.plist:
<key>NSAppTransportSecurity<key>
<dict>
<key>NSExceptionDomains</keys>
<dict>
<key>www.slightly-­‐secure.com</key>
<dict>
<key>NSExceptionMinimumTLSVersion</key>
<string>TLSv1.0</string>
<key>NSExceptionRequiresForwardSecrecy</key>
<false/>
<key>NSExceptionAllowsInsecureHTTPLoads</key>
<true/>
<key>NSIncludesSubdomains</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</dict>
</dict>
✓ ATS enforces secure connections
✓ Affects ModernHttpClient,
NSUrlSession, WebViews
✓ Does not affect Xamarin
HttpWebRequest

8. ✓ Slide Over
✓ Split Screen (﴾true multitasking)﴿
✓ Picture-‐in-‐picture

9. To support Slide Over or Split View your
app must do the following:
● Be built against iOS 9 (﴾or greater)﴿
● Use a Storyboard Launchscreen
● User interface built with storyboard
using Autolayout and Size Classes
(﴾or Xamarin.Forms!)﴿
● Support all 4 iOS device orientations

10. ✓ CoreSpotlight
✓ NSUserActivity (﴾Handoff & Siri)﴿
✓ Web Markup

11. ✓ AddressBook deprecated
✓ Contacts (﴾create/edit)﴿
✓ ContactsUI (﴾read)﴿

12. ✓ STACKS (﴾horizontal & vertical)﴿
✓ Layout only (﴾no properties)﴿
✓ Leading/Trailing (﴾not Left/Right)﴿
-‐ great for localization

13. ✓ Right-‐to-‐left support
✓ Including UINavigationController
✓ UIStackView!
UITextAlignment.Natural;
Leading
&
Trailing
v
Left
&
Right

14. ✓ Re-‐ordering now super-‐easy
CanMoveItem
(view,
index)
MoveItem
(view,
source,
dest)

15. ✓ Safari-‐in-‐a-‐box

16. ✓ demo

17. 3D Touch
ATS
iPad Multitasking
Search
UI
Peek and Pop
Declare Exceptions
Split Screen
NSUserActivity
Quick Actions
HTTPS
Slide Over
CoreSpotlight
Contacts
UIStackView
UICollectionView
Pressure Sensitive
Opt-‐out
Picture in picture
Web Markup
Xamarin.Forms!
Xamarin.Forms!
Xamarin.Forms!
Xamarin.Forms!
Xamarin.Forms!

18. ✓ Quick Actions
✓ Peek & Pop
✓ Pressure Sensitivity

19. ✓ HTTPS (﴾with caveats)﴿
✓ Declare Exceptions
✓ Opt-‐out

20. ✓ Slide Over
✓ Split Screen (﴾true multitasking)﴿
✓ Picture-‐in-‐picture

21. ✓ CoreSpotlight
✓ NSUserActivity (﴾Handoff)﴿
✓ Web Markup

22. Craig
Dunn
Developer Evangelist, Xamarin
craig@xamarin.com conceptdev.blogspot.com @conceptdev
Thank you!