Slides from my "Beginner's Guide to Xamarin Development" session at Codestock 2013. Code from the sample app, YodaSays, can be found here: https://github.com/benhenderson/yodasays.

1. Beginner’s Guide to Mobile
Development with
Xamarin
Presented by Ben Henderson
Partner & Senior Software Engineer
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2. @ben_henderson
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3. Xamarin Fanboy
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4. Certified! ;)
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5. Overview
• Who are Xamarin?
• Xamarin’s Toolkit
• Xamarin’s Niche
• Hello DevLink - iOS and Android
• Cross Platform Sample
• Questions and Answers
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6. Who are Xamarin?
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7. Young company, experienced team
Miguel de Icaza
CTO
Joseph Hill
COO
Nat Friedman
CEO
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8. • 1999 Ximian - “The Mono Guys”
• 2004 Novell buys Ximian
• Sept. 2009 MonoTouch v1.0
• Early 2011 Mono for Android v1.0
• Feb. 2011 Attachmate buys Novell. Fires US
workers, owns IP.
• May 2011 Xamarin is formed. Starting from scratch.
• July 2011 Xamarin and Novell reach IP agreement.
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9. Xamarin’s Toolkit
• C#
• Common IDE
• .NET Base Class Library
• Complete Access to Indigenous
Frameworks
• Runtimes for iOS and Android
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10. Developer Tools
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11. Pricing
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12. Compiles to native app
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13. Xamarin’s Niche
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14. Abstracted Experience
Native Experience
Less Complex More Complex
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15. It’s .NET!
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16. iOS Demo
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17. iOS Resources
• Bryan Costanich
http://www.apress.com/9781430231745
• Wally McClure, Craig Dunn, et al.
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047063782X.html
• Xamarin iOS docs
http://docs.xamarin.com/ios
• Evolve session videos
http://xamarin.com/evolve/2013#ios
• Native iOS documentation
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18. Android Demo
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19. Android x86 / HAXM
Emulator
• Xamarin Guidelines
http://docs.xamarin.com/guides/android/deployment,_testing,_and_metrics/
configuring_the_x86_emulator
• Intel HAXM Installer
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-hardware-accelerated-
execution-manager
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20. Android Resources
• Wally McClure, Jonathan Dick, et al.
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118026438.html
• Xamarin Android docs
http://docs.xamarin.com/
• Evolve session videos
http://xamarin.com/evolve/2013#android
• Native Android documentation
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21. Cross Platform
• Native Experience on Many Platforms
• Shared Code
• Efficiencies from Common Core
Framework, Language, and IDE
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22. Sample X-Platform App
Hai!
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23. Wireframes
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24. “Yoda Says” App
• iOS and Android Clients
• Shared Code - consume web service,
persist data, model, and view model
• Platform Abstraction - create image
• Component Store - iOS progress HUD
• Open Source Code - TinyIoC, RestSharp,
SimpleJSON
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25. Demo
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26. Project Structure
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27. Native and Shared Concepts
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28. Sample Interaction:Translation
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29. X-Platform Resources
• Greg Shackles
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024002.do
• Field Service sample
http://xamarin.com/prebuilt/fieldservice
• Evolve session videos
http://xamarin.com/evolve/2013#cross-platform
• MvvmCross framework
https://github.com/slodge/MvvmCross
• YodaSays source on GitHub
https://github.com/benhenderson/yodasays
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30. Get Started Today!
• Download Xamarin.iOS and
Xamarin.Android
• Download Xcode and “obtain” a Mac
• Start a 30 day trial
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31. Questions &
Answers
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32. There is no more :(
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