The document discusses a workshop for IT staff on barcodes and GRIN-Global held at the International Potato Center in Ethiopia. It covers preparing an environment for mobile development using Xamarin and Visual Studio, connecting Visual Studio to the GitLab code repository, and demoing cross-platform mobile app development. The International Potato Center (CIP) is introduced as a research organization focused on potatoes and root crops that works to address issues of hunger, poverty, climate change and biodiversity loss.

1. I L R I C A M P U S , A D D I S A B A B A E T H I O P I A
NOVEMBER 24, 2016
First Workshop for IT Staff
on Barcodes and GRIN-Global
Edwin Rojas (CIP)
Genebank Data System Manager
Programming With
Xamarin & GitLab

2. Prepare Environment for VS2015 and Xamarin
- Verify in Control Panel  Programs Program & Features  Microsoft VS 2015 with Updates
- Install Android Emulator for VS2015 https://www.visualstudio.com/es/vs/msft-android-emulator/

3. GitLab
- Create you user in GitLab: https://gitlab.com/
- Download all project examples from https://gitlab.com/CIP-Development-Pub

4. Connect VS 2015 with GitLab
- Download all project examples from https://gitlab.com/CIP-Development-Pub
- For example to download exercise 3
- Copy to the Clipboard the link with the button “Copy”

5. Connect VS 2015 with GitLab
- Open Visual Studio 2015 and open “Team Explorer TAB”
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6. Connect VS 2015 with GitLab
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7. Connect VS 2015 with GitLab
Double click 7

8. Connect VS 2015 with GitLab
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9. Mobile Devices in the World

10. Mobile Devices in the World
More code more complex

11. Environment for Mobile Devices
Solution: Use an IT development environment that support cross platform devolping apps with
native support.
Xamarin Studio
for PC or MAC
Write application code once, and it runs on multiple platforms = iOS, Windows, Android,....
Visual Studio
for PC or MAC
(Community Edition 2015 with update 3)
https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-mac/

12. Crossplatform with VS 2015 Community and Xamarin
Download free Microsoft book for Xamarin and download the samples.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/microsoft_press/2016/03/31/free-ebook-creating-mobile-apps-with-xamarin-forms/

13. Crossplatform with VS 2015 Community and Xamarin

14. Crossplatform with VS 2015 Community and Xamarin
Before Xamarin

15. Crossplatform with VS 2015 Community and Xamarin

16. Crossplatform with VS 2015 Community and Xamarin

17. Crossplatform with VS 2015 Community and Xamarin

18. Crossplatform with VS 2015 Community and Xamarin

19. Crossplatform with VS 2015 Community and Xamarin

20. Crossplatform with VS 2015 Community and Xamarin

21. Crossplatform with VS 2015 Community and Xamarin

22. Crossplatform with VS 2015 Community and Xamarin
Demo and Exercises

23. The International Potato Center (known by its Spanish acronym CIP) is
a research-for-development organization with a focus on potato, sweetpotato,
and Andean roots and tubers. CIP is dedicated to delivering sustainable
science-based solutions to the pressing world issues of hunger, poverty,
gender equity, climate change and the preservation of our Earth’s fragile
biodiversity and natural resources.
www.cipotato.org
CIP is a member of CGIAR
CGIAR is a global agriculture research partnership for a food secure future. Its
science is carried out by the 15 research centers who are members of the
CGIAR Consortium in collaboration with hundreds of partner organizations.
www.cgiar.org