Monomobile

Talk given at DublinAltNet on MonoMobile with a slant towards how it compares to HTML 5 solutions

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1. Cross-platform mobile dev
   Jérémie Laval
   Xamarin Hacker
   MonoMobile
   @jeremie_laval
   Alan McGovern
   Xamarin Hacker
   @amcgovern
   

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2. Who we are
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3. What we do
   MonoTouch
   xamarin.com/monotouch
   Mono for Android
   xamarin.com/monoforandroid
   

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4. How you may know us
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   Rdio mobile client
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   Infinite flight
   

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5. What's cross-
   platform anyway?
   

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6. History repeats itself
   

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7. Wait, what if we used...
   

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8. HTML 5 is teh hype
   

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9. Hype friendly reminder
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10. Traditional HTML 5 solution
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11. Traditional HTML 5 solution
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    = A one-for-all-platform type of solution
    

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12. Doesn't it ring a bell?
    “Code once deploy everywhere”?
    (“code once, debug everywhere”)
    

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13. Doesn't it ring a bell?
    “Code once deploy everywhere”?
    Yup, Java
    (“code once, debug everywhere”)
    

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14. Doesn't it ring a bell?
    “Code once deploy everywhere”?
    Yup, Java
    Today we all code in Java right?
    (“code once, debug everywhere”)
    

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15. Wait, it's actually worse
    A mobile platform is infinitely
    less streamlined than a desktop
    != Operating systems
    != Hardware
    != Input
    != User experience
    != API
    != Services
    != Dedicated programming languages
    

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16. Fast pace anyone?
    HTML 5 / CSS / JS is about being standard
    Mobile is fundamentally non-standard
    

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17. Fast pace anyone?
    HTML 5 / CSS / JS is about being standard
    Mobile is fundamentally non-standard
    MonoTouch supports new iOS version in days
    The HTML 5 specification isn't even final
    

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18. Not even talking about
    Debugging experience
    

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19. Or
    Browser discrepancy
    

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20. In fairness
    HTML5-based solution are fine for app with
    existing HTML-based content
    

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21. In fairness
    HTML5-based solution are fine for app with
    existing HTML-based content
    ( Although we also have WebView! )
    

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22. At Xamarin
    

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23. Our vision
    • We think all-in-one solutions are flawed
    

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24. Our vision
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26. Our vision (graphed)
    

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27. What our xplat looks like
    http://blog.xamarin.com/2012/02/24/mwc_2012/
    

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28. XPlat libraries
    Xamarin Mobile API
    

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29. Other x-plat libraries
    • MonoCross - http://code.google.com/p/monocross/
    • Vernacular - https://github.com/rdio/vernacular
    • MonoGame - http://monogame.codeplex.com/
    • SQLite-net - https://github.com/praeclarum/sqlite-net
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