This document discusses strategies for mobile development and cross-platform solutions using Microsoft technologies. It introduces Xamarin and Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova as cross-platform options that allow building native mobile apps using C# and .NET in Visual Studio. It outlines features like sharing code and UI development across platforms, and also covers the Android emulator in Visual Studio. The presentation ends with questions and information about following the presenter on social media.

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Multi Device Development using Visual Studio
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Karthikeyan Anbarasan, Microsoft MVP / Nokia Dev Champ
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Microsoft MVP (Win Platform)
Nokia Developer Champion
Microsoft Rockstar India
C-SharpCorner MVP
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3. Agenda
Agenda
M Why Mobile M Mobile Strategy
Overview on why the market is
focusing towards Mobile
Strategy towards how Mobile
platform has evolved
D Cross Platform Q Q & A
Tools and approaches towards
Cross Platform Development
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4. Introduction
Why Mobile
I

6. Mobile Device Adoption
Faster than the PC boom10X
Faster than the Internet boom2X
Faster than the recent social
networking explosion
3X

7. Mobile Strategy
Strategy / Solutions
II

8. Mobile Development Strategies
Web technologies
Native platform technologies

9. Mobile Development Strategies
Desktop apps
Windows Store apps
Browser-based
applications
Apache Cordova™

10. Microsoft’s solution for Mobile

11. Cross Platform
solutions
Native/Hybrid
III

12. Microsoft SolutionCross Platform
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C# + XIB C# + AXML C# + XAML
Native UI Native UI Native UI
Black Box
Native Hybrid

13. What is Xamarin?
Extension to Visual Studio
• iOS & Android apps entirely within Visual Studio
• Compiles .NET/C# code to native platforms
• Visual Studio ALM and IDE capabilities
Build apps faster
• Leverage skills
• Reuse code and binaries with flexibility
• Fully native user interfaces

14. Create UI with drag and drop simplicity
Target multiple screen sizes, resolutions,
and OS platform and versions
Layouts saved in native
resource formats
World’s best Android designer
available in Visual Studio
UI design in Visual Studio

15. Native compilation, native performance

16. Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova
• Use existing web developer skillsets
• iOS, Android apps entirely within Visual Studio
• JavaScript, CSS, and HTML support
• Flexibility to use any JavaScript framework
• Native device access with support for common and custom
plug-ins exposed as JavaScript APIs
• Build apps at scale
• Complex enterprise scale apps with TypeScript
• Productive end-to-end workflow
• Visual Studio ALM and IDE capabilities

17. Sharing Code
Shared Projects
Shared Projects and Portable Class Libraries (PCLs)

18. Shared Projects
Well suited for sharing code in a
single cross platform application
and sharing non-code assets.
PCLs
Well suited for creating cross
platform libraries intended to be
used by many applications.
Shared Projects and Portable Class Libraries

19. Android Emulator in Visual Studio
• Fast, x86 image built from AOSP
• Runs on Hyper-V, no conflict with your other
needs
• Comes with Visual Studio
• Speaks ADB
• Other capabilities and sensor simulations
– Zoom, Rotation, Network, Location, Accelerometer,
Battery, SD Card, Camera, Audio playback, Keyboard
Input, Configurations

21. QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
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22. Resources
aka.ms/xamarin
aka.ms/vscordova
www.visualstudio.com
www.typescriptlang.org
blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/

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