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Building Mobile Apps With Xamarin and Visual Studio App Center
This document discusses building mobile apps with Xamarin and Visual Studio App Center. It describes how Xamarin enables code sharing across platforms using familiar languages and libraries while still allowing access to native device functionality. It compares classic Xamarin vs Xamarin Forms approaches and outlines the features of Visual Studio App Center, which provides a unified experience for building, testing, distributing and monitoring mobile apps in one place. It includes a demo of setting up a new application in App Center.
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Building Mobile Apps With Xamarin and Visual Studio App Center
- 1. BUILDING MOBILE APPS WithXamarin and Visual Studio App Center
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- 3. Xamarin Cross PlatformDevelopment • Enables developers to create apps using familiar languages, libraries • Simplifies codebase by maximizing code share between platforms • Enables apps to maintain close feature parity across devices • Can access native functionality from device OS • Uses platform-native compilers to ensure app binary compliance • Used in countless applications indistinguishable from native apps • Built on stable technology but still innovating and improving
- 4. Xamarin (Classic /Native) vs Xamarin Forms • Non-UI code can be shared • UI is implemented using platform-native technology • Can have smaller app size than Xamarin Forms • Can launch more quickly than Xamarin Forms • Nearly all code can be shared • Except for platform specific needs, UI is XAML for all targets • Only platform-specific concerns need to be done per-platform • Simple Dependency Injection to ease platform-specific integration
- 5. VS App Center– Everything in One Place Service • HockeyApp • Xamarin Insights • Xamarin Test Cloud • Azure App Services • Azure Mobile Engagement • CodePush Features • Analytics, Crashes, Distribution • Analytics, Crashes • Device Tests • Auth, Data, Push • Analytics, Push • Distribution
- 6. VS App CenterFeatures • Build your app from source (VS Team Services, GitHub, Bitbucket) • Run automated tests on real hardware • Distribute your app to limited audiences for testing or to an app store • Push updates directly to devices* • Get crash logs automatically; add exception tracking with code • Get basic analytics automatically; add more events with code • Push notifications to devices • Configure analytics to export to Azure for more powerful insights • Extensive API for automating tasks or integrating other systems
- 7. VS App Center Creatingan App Each OS you are targeting needs a matched “app” in VS App Center. If you have a Xamarin Forms project targeting iOS and Android, you’ll create two apps in App Center. Both Xamarin Classic and Xamarin Forms use the Xamarin Platform option.
- 8. VS App Center AppDetails After creating the app in App Center you can review the Getting Started information to find your ID as well as simple instructions to configure your project. The Xamarin instructions are specific to the OS of the App you’ve created. The Xamarin.Forms instructions are more general. Regardless of OS and Platform, the Getting Started section contains the ID you need for your app to communicate with App Center.
- 9. Demo Quick Look atVisual Studio App Center
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- 11. Resources • Xamarin Docs https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/ •Visual Studio App Center Docs https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/ • Xamarin University https://university.xamarin.com/
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