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lachlanroche
May 06, 2014
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Introducing Xamarin
Presented at Brisbane Cocoaheads, May 2014
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Xamarin Building Cocoa apps with C#
What is Xamarin? • Build Cocoa or Android apps in
.NET • Produces native apps which directly use the platform frameworks • Develop in Visual Studio or Xamarin Studio
Xamarin timeline • 2002 .NET Framework • 2004 Mono project
• 2009 Mono Touch • 2011 Xamarin spun out of Novell
Feature adoption • Mono often ship new compiler and framework
features before Microsoft e.g. await/async, LINQ • SDK bindings usually available the next day
3rd party code • Binding static libraries • Xamarin component
store https://components.xamarin.com/ • Portable Class Libraries • .NET source code - C#, F#
Drawbacks • Cocoapods • Core Data • Smaller community
App gallery • Rdio • calca • iCircuit • Many
more http://xamarin.com/apps/all
Why use it? • Single codebase across iOS, Android, Windows
• Shared code can be 20-30% of the combined source • Easier path to Cocoa for .NET developers
Resources • Xamarin http://xamarin.com/ • Xamarin component store http://components.xamarin.com/ •
Miguel de Icaza http://tirania.org/blog/