The document discusses building cross-platform mobile apps using Xamarin.Forms. It provides an overview of key Xamarin.Forms features like shared UI code, included controls and layouts, data binding, MVVM architecture, custom renderers, and dependency services. The session will cover data binding, advantages of Xamarin.Forms, the MVVM pattern, and include a case study. Questions can be asked during the webinar or by emailing the speaker afterwards.

1. Xamarin.Forms - Building Cross
Platform Mobile Apps
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2. Session Speaker
Amit Dubay
Director – Mobility & Cloud
WinWire Technologies

3. Agenda
Data Binding with Xamarin.Forms Controls
Advantages using Xamarin.Forms
MVVM Architecture with Xamarin.Forms
Custom Renderers & Dependency Services
Xamarin.Forms - Introduction
Case Study

4. Xamarin.Forms - Introduction
Build native UIs for iOS, Android and Windows
from a single, shared C# codebase.

5. Xamarin.Forms - Introduction
Shared UI Code
Traditional Xamarin Approach Xamarin.Forms Approach

6. Advantages - Xamarin.Forms

7. What’s Included
40+ Pages, Layouts and Controls
Build using XAML or code behind (C#)
Two-way Data Binding
Navigation & Animation API
Custom Renderers
Dependency Services
Messaging Center

8. Pages

9. Layouts

10. Views
Activity
Indicator
Box View Button Date Picker Editor
Entry Image Label List View Map
Open GL View Picker Progress Bar Search Bar Slider
Stepper Table View Time Picker Web View Entry Cell
Image Cell Switch Cell Text Cell View Cell

11. Model – View - ViewModel

12. Data Binding
Defining Properties and implementing INotifyPropertyChanged
Binding property of a control with a property in ViewModel

13. Commands
LoginCommand Function in View Model
Binding Button’s Command Property to LoginCommand Function from ViewModel

14. Implementing Platform Specific features
Custom Renderers
• Allows to override the default
native rendering of a
Xamarin.Forms control with
platform-specific code
Dependency Services
• Allows shared code to easily
resolve Interfaces to
platform-specific
implementations

15. Custom Renderers

16. Dependency Service
Interfaces
Discovery Strategy

17. Case Study

18. Who We Are
IT solutions company
making information
actionable for the
enterprises in the
mobile-cloud world
Collaborative and
Analytics solutions
leveraging pre-built
solution accelerators
Cloud,
Collaboration &
Analytics Technologies
Mobility,

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