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Building Native “apps” with Visual Studio 2015
This document summarizes options for building native mobile applications using Visual Studio 2015. It discusses tools for developing apps for platforms like iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. Key frameworks mentioned include Apache Cordova, which allows developing mobile apps using web technologies, and Xamarin, which enables sharing code across platforms while creating fully native apps. The document also includes a demo of creating a basic app using Apache Cordova and discusses advantages and limitations of various approaches.
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- 1. Building Native “apps” withVisual Studio 2015 Central Penn .NET code camp 2015 Michael Melusky @mrjavascript
- 2. About the speaker •Michael Melusky Software Engineer for Audacious Inquiry in Baltimore, MD Instructor at Pennsylvania State University, Franklin & Marshall College, and ITT Technical Institute Regular speaker at the Java and .NET user group meetings and code camps
- 3. Devices for Native“apps” • Devices to target: Microsoft Windows Phone Apple iPhone Android Devices Android Phones Android Tables Amazon Fire TV Other Apple Devices Apple iPad Apple Watch
- 4. When Developing forApple iOS • Xcode • JetBrains “AppCode” • Both applications can be used to build “apps” using either Swift of Objective- C
- 5. When Developing forAndroid • Any Java development tool suite of your choice: Eclipse JetBrains IntellJ • Google Dart? • Jetbrains Kotlin?
- 6. When Developing forWindows Phone • Microsoft Visual Studio with C#
- 7. Unifying Development ofPlatforms? • Native App Development • Unity Framework • Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Apache Cordova Xamarin
- 8. Apache Cordova • Previouslyreferred to as “PhoneGap” • enables software programmers to build applications for mobile devices using JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3, instead of relying on platform-specific APIs like those in Android, iOS, or Windows Phone
- 9. Apache Cordova Time •** DEMO **
- 10. Features of ApacheCordova
- 11. Issues with ApacheCordova • StackOverflow.com Developer Survey 2015
- 12. Why use ApacheCordova? • Want to share more UI between platforms, with fewer native looking elements. • Share UI assets with a mobile website • Have HTML / JS developers • Are OK with a somewhat less smooth UI on older Android and iOS devices, or don’t plan on supporting older Android (pre 4.2)
- 13. Other Options? • Xamarin Need to do apps with less shared UI, more shared logic. Have .Net developers Need a high performing, native looking app
- 14. Xamarin • Native UserInterfaces • Xamarin apps are built with standard, native user interface controls. Apps not only look the way the end user expects, they behave that way too • Native API Access • Xamarin apps have access to the full spectrum of functionality exposed by the underlying platform and device, including platform-specific capabilities like iBeacons and Android Fragments • Native Performance • Xamarin apps leverage platform-specific hardware acceleration, and are compiled for native performance. This can’t be achieved with solutions that interpret code at runtime
- 15. Xamarin Code Time •** DEMO **
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