At the GRIN-Global Workshop in Portugal June 2018.

1. Developing Mobile Apps
June 7, 2018 – Portugal Workshop
I N I A V / T R U S T - P O R T O P O R T U G A L
Edwin Rojas (CIP) & Carlos Velasquez (CIP

2. Agenda: Developing Mobile Apps
• CIP Genebank Overview
• Genebank Environment
• Genebank Needs & Benefits for Mobility
• Hardware Platform for Mobile Apps
• Mobile Apps Target Devices
• Mobile App Developments: Web or Hybrid or Native
• Microsoft Technology for Mobile Apps
• Solution Architecture for CIP
• Webservices types
• Xamarin Overview
• Xamarin Architecture
• Xamarin Forms UI Comparison/Mapping/Rendering
• CIP Mobile App for Inventories in Xamarin Forms
• Android Version
• Windows Version - UWP for TabletPC or Laptops/PCs
• Hello World App in Xamarin Forms
• Xamarin Installation/Setup
• Simple Exercise to Practice
• Screenshot

3. CIP Genebank Overview
Environment
CIP is the custodian of one
the world’s largest in vitro
collection.
CIP is the custodian of
one of the largest clonal
plant cryobanks.
8 cold chambers
20 flow chambers
Annually multiplicated 400 thousands tubes
Annually distributed 37 thousands tubes

4. CIP Genebank Overview
Environment
Cold Chambers/
Laboratories
Greenhouses Fields
Genebank Mobility  Promote Massive Mountains of IT Innovations

5. CIP Genebank Overview
Needs and benefits to develop more efficiencies
• Capture data where activities
occur
• Use mobile computers
• Develop Apps
Improve Data
Collection
• User barcode Labels
• Labeling all accessions in all
procedures
• Use scanners
• Use thermal printers
Improve
Germplasm
Identification
• Connect online to central
repository
• Use WiFi inside laboratories
• Allow query inventories and
status with related information's
Improve
Germplasm
Tracking and
Monitoring

6. Mobile
Hardware
Platform
CIP Genebank Overview
Hardware platform for mobile apps
Rugged devices supporting IP Norm:
• Complete protection against contact
• Protections from infiltration
• Protection from dust
• Protection from dripping water
• Protection from sprayed water
• Protection from splashed water

7. CIP Genebank Overview - Mobile apps target devices
Curator ToolMobile Apps In-house Systems
(LIMS)
Integrate solutions base on the latest and emerging technologies
Mobility
Training

8. Mobile App Developments – Web or Hybrid or Native
Mobile Web Hybrid App Native App

9. Mobile App Developments – Web or Hybrid or Native
Native
Hybrid
Web
Access to
Hardware &
Advanced UI
interaction
Speed
Development
Cost
Full
Full
Partial
Very Fast
Native
Speed as
Necessary
Fast
Expensive
Reasonable
Reasonable
Deployment
Fast
Device by
Device
Device by
Device

10. Mobile App Developments – Web or Hybrid or Native
Mobile Web
Hybrid App
Native App

11. Database Server
Data tier
Web Server
Middle tier
(Business + Webservices)
Microsoft Technologies for Mobile Apps
Solution Architecture
GG Central
Database
PC
User Interface
Curator Tool
GG
Client
Core
Wizards
Forms
Reports
GG Local
Database
GG
Server
core
GG
Webservice
ASPNET ASMX -SOAP
CIP
Webservice
WCF - RESTful
Cross-platform App
Xamarin .NET Framework 4.5

12. Microsoft Technologies for Mobile Apps
Webservices types
2002 2006 2010
Type 1: ASP.NET ASMX
Base on SOAP
Type 2: WCF
Base on REST or
NON HTTP with
.NET Remoting
Type 3: ASP.NET Web Api
Base on REST
SOAP and REST offer different methods to invoke a Webservice
A Webservice is a method of communication between two applications or
electronic devices over the World Wide Web (WWW)
Technology
Release Year

13. Microsoft Technologies for Mobile Apps
Xamarin Overview
Xamarin is the technology to develop cross-platform apps and is free in
Visual Studio 2015/2017
Is free coming with VS Studio Community edition

14. Microsoft Technologies for Mobile Apps
Xamarin Architecture
UWP: Universal Windows Platform, is the app platform for Windows 10 for Mobile, Tablet, Laptop,
Desktop, Xbox, Hololens, IoT

15. Microsoft Technologies for Mobile Apps
Xamarin Forms UI comparison/mapping/rendering
UWP: Universal Windows Platform, is the app platform for Windows 10 for Mobile, Tablet, Laptop,
Desktop, Xbox, Hololens, IoT

16. CIP Mobile App for GRIN-Global Inventories in Xamarin Forms
Manage germplasm inventory for
seeds, DNA and herbarium.
• Register new inventories
• Print barcode labels
• Scan barcodes
• Query inventories by filters
• Update stocks
• Register viability tests

17. CIP Mobile App for Inventories in Xamarin Forms
Android version
Model: Zebra TC75
• Rugged device with IP65
• Scanner incorporated
• WiFi + Bluetooth
• Camera 13 MP
• GPS
• Android 5 Lollipop or Android 7 Nougat
• CPU 1.8 GHz – 64 bit
• Memory 4 GB RAM/32 GB Flash
• Display 4.7 inches (1280 x 720 MP)
• Cost 3000 USD
• Programmed obsolescence: 5 years

18. CIP Mobile App for Inventories in Xamarin Forms
Android version

19. CIP Mobile App for Inventories in Xamarin Forms
Android version

20. CIP Mobile App for Inventories in Xamarin Forms
Android version

21. CIP Mobile App for Inventories in Xamarin Forms
Windows version
Model: Zebra ET50
• Rugged device with IP65
• Scanner incorporated
• WiFi + Bluetooth
• Camera 8 MP
• GPS
• Windows 10
• CPU 1.59 GHz – 64 bit
• Memory 4 GB RAM/64 GB Flash
• Display 8.3 inches (1920 x 1200 MP)
• Cost 3500 USD
• Programmed obsolescence: 5 years

22. CIP Mobile App for Inventories in Xamarin Forms
Windows version

23. CIP Mobile App for Inventories in Xamarin Forms
Windows version

24. CIP Mobile App for Inventories in Xamarin Forms
Windows version

25. CIP Mobile App for Inventories in Xamarin Forms
Windows version

26. Hello World App in Xamarin Forms
Xamarin Installation

27. Hello World App in Xamarin Forms
Simple exercise to practice
This VS project contains a Xamarin page with Label, EntryText, Button and one
event click.
Visual Studio 2015
Xamarin Forms with .NET 4.5
1. Open Visual Studio
2. Clone the solution from https://gitlab.com/Portugal2018/HelloWorldXamarin.git
3. Open the solution: XamTest01.sln

28. Hello World App in Xamarin Forms
Screenshots

29. The International Potato Center (known by its Spanish acronym CIP) is
a research-for-development organization with a focus on potato, sweetpotato,
and Andean roots and tubers. CIP is dedicated to delivering sustainable
science-based solutions to the pressing world issues of hunger, poverty,
gender equity, climate change and the preservation of our Earth’s fragile
biodiversity and natural resources.
www.cipotato.org
CIP is a member of CGIAR
CGIAR is a global agriculture research partnership for a food secure future. Its
science is carried out by the 15 research centers who are members of the
CGIAR Consortium in collaboration with hundreds of partner organizations.
www.cgiar.org