This document contains information about various Xamarin podcasts and resources for building cross-platform mobile apps with Xamarin. It lists podcasts such as the Weekly Development Podcast and Weekly Xamarin Podcast. It also describes how Xamarin allows building native iOS, Android and UWP apps using C# and Xamarin.Forms for shared cross-platform UI and logic. Xamarin.Essentials is introduced as a library for common mobile features like geolocation, preferences and device info. Links are provided to Xamarin documentation sites.

3. Weekly development podcast
mergeconflict.fm
Weekly development show
xamarinshow.com
Weekly Xamarin Podcast
xamarinpodcast.com
Weekly Xamarin podcast
xamarinpodcast.com

5. Essentials for mobile success
Intelligent cloudBuild, test, distribute, learnBeautiful native apps

6. Xamarin: Anything you can do in Objective-C,
Swift, or Java, you can do in C# and Visual Studio
• Native user interface
• High-fidelity API access
• Native performance

7. Traditional Xamarin Approach With Xamarin.Forms
Shared UI Code

9. Xamarin.Forms- Cross Platform UI
• Shared Native User Interface
• Shared App Logic
Shared C# Logic
Shared UI Code

11. • Image Loading & Caching
• Trimmed down just for Images
Introducing GlideX.Forms
http://jonathanpeppers.com/Blog/glidex-forms---fast-images-for-xamarin-forms-on-
android

13. Shared C# Backend
Geolocation Geolocation Geolocation
Compass Compass Compass
Keystore Keystore Keystore

14. Xamarin.Essentials
aka.ms/xamarinessentials
Flashlight
Geolocation
Preferences
Device Info
Device Display Info
Secure Settings
Accelerometer
Battery
Clipboard
Compass
Connectivity
Data Transfer
Email
File SystemGeocoding
Gyroscope
Magnetometer
Phone Dialer
Screen Lock
Sms
Text to Speech
Vibration

15. Microsoft

16. Thank you.
James
Montemagno
Principal Program Manager – Mobile Developer Tools,
Microsoft
motz@microsoft.com Montemagno.com @JamesMontemagno
Weekly development podcast
mergeconflict.fm
Weekly development show
xamarinshow.com
aka.ms/xamarin
aka.ms/xamarinforms3
aka.ms/xamarincompass
aka.ms/xamarinessentials