SydMobNet July 2014: Xamarin 3 & Xamarin Forms

Sydney Mobile .Net Developers (#SydMobNet)

Xamarin 3 Birthday Bash!

Intro to Xamarin and New Features in Xamarin 3 – Alec TuckerXamarin Forms – Filip Ekberg

Alec TuckerHead of Mobile Product Development, APAC

White Clarke Group

Agenda• Introductions• News• Intro to Xamarin and New Features in Xamarin 3 – Alec Tucker• Xamarin.Forms – Filip Ekberg• Pizza & Cake here• Adjourn to the Rag & Famish down the road

…interspersed with food and raffles for…• Xamarin

• Monkey• C# Shirt

• Nokia Memorabillia• Umbrella

• Pluralsight• 2 x 1 month subscription

• Mindscape• $50 vouchers

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News• Xamarin Hack Day

– Was a great success! Watch for videos on www.xamarinhackday.com

• New Lumia Launched– Is it a Nokia? Is it a Microsoft device? It’s a Lumia!

@alecdtuckerblog.alectucker.com

Intro to Xamarin and New Features in Xamarin 3

Alec TuckerHead of Mobile Product Development, APAC

White Clarke Group

C# on 2.6 billion devices

Automatically test your app on

hundreds of mobile devices

Create native iOS, Android, Mac and

Windows apps in C#

Architecting Mobile Apps

SiloApproach

Build AppsMultiple Times

Write Once,Run AnywhereApproach

Lowest CommonDenominator

Xamarin’s Unique Approach

Native with Code Sharing

WindowsAPIs

100%Coverage

iOSAPIs

100%Coverage

AndroidAPIs

100%Coverage

Anything you can do in Objective-C or Java can be done in C# with Xamarin

C# runs on 2.6 Billion Devices

HowXamarinWorks

C# + .NET RuntimeNative UINative Performance

Why C#? Async and await LINQ Full power of the .Net

Framework

What’s new in Xamarin 3

Major Elements inXamarin 3

Xamarin Designer for iOSMajor IDE EnhancementsImproved Code SharingXamarin.Forms

Xamarin Designer for AndroidFully integrated into Xamarin Studio & Visual Studio

Multi-resolution editing

Easy switch between design and Android XML

Shipping for over 2 years

Xamarin Designer for iOS

Fully integrated into Xamarin Studio & Visual Studio

iOS 6 & 7 Storyboard support

Intuitive event handling

Support for auto-layout

Live preview of custom controls

Xamarin Designer in Action

DEMO

Xamarin Studio: Beautiful New Look

NuGet Package Manager

Full support for using NuGet packages

Take advantage of the many NuGet packages which are are now shipping with Xamarin compatibility – in Visual Studio or Xamarin Studio

Shared Projects

The easiest way to share code

Eliminates the hassle of file-linking

Easier to collaborate with other Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio users

.NET BCL Documentation

Full documentation for the .NET Base Class Libraries (BCL)

Recently provided to community by Microsoft

Integrated into Xamarin Studio

First Class F# Support

DEMO

Xamarin.Forms

Filip EkbergMicrosoft MVP

Pluralsight AuthorAuthor of C# Smorgasbord

filip.Ekberg@readify.netfekberg.com@fekberg

Portable Class Libraries

Xamarin + Xamarin.FormsWith Xamarin.Forms:

more code-sharing, native controlsTraditional Xamarin approach

Shared UI Code

Xamarin + Xamarin.Forms

Shared UI Code

Quickly and easily build native user interfaces using shared code

Xamarin.Forms elements map to native controls and behaviors

Mix-and-match Xamarin.Forms with native APIs

Pages

Content MasterDetail Navigation Tabbed Carousel

Layouts

Stack Absolute Relative Grid ContentView ScrollView Frame

Controls

ActivityIndicator

BoxView Button DatePicker Editor

Entry Image Label ListView Map

OpenGLView Picker ProgressBar SearchBar Slider

Stepper TableView TimePicker WebView EntryCell

ImageCell SwitchCell TextCell ViewCell

Xamarin.Forms in Action

DEMO

Xamarin 3 Recap

Xamarin Designer for iOS

Major IDE Enhancements

Improved Code Sharing

Xamarin.Forms

So much more!

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Key Attendees

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Questions / Discussion / Food

• Pizza and cake• Retire to the bar

Contact Details / References

Group• http://www.meetup.com/SydneyMobileDotNetDevelopers/

Xamarin• www.xamarin.com

• evolve.xamarin.com

• university.xamarin.com

Microsoft• www.lalaninja.com.au

• dvlup.com

• wp.msdeveloper.com.au

Further Contacts

Filip Ekberg• filip.ekberg@readify.net• @fekberg• fekberg.com

Alec Tucker• atucker@whiteclarkegroup.com• @alecdtucker• blog.alectucker.com• linkedin.com/in/alectucker