Xamarin For Everyone - Speaker Deck

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April 2016 Nashville Mobile .NET Developers

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Demos | Lightning Talks Share Your Screen Mute your computer audio

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News ● Xamarin Evolve - April 24-28 ○ ONLY 5 DAYS AWAY!! ○ Training: Sunday 24th (registration) - Tuesday 26th ○ Conference: Tuesday 26th (registration) - Thursday 28th ● And then of course...

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Xamarin For Everyone

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Chris Riesgo Mobile Architect | LeanKit Organizer | Nashville Mobile .NET Developers @chrisriesgo | chrisriesgo.com Xamarin MVP Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer

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Xamarin For Everyone What does it mean?

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Xamarin For Everyone ● Xamarin included in Visual Studio at no extra cost ○ Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition - free for everyone (Windows) ○ Xamarin Studio Community Edition - free for everyone (Mac) ○ Visual Studio 2015 (MSDN or obtained separately) ○ Use Visual Studio Tools (Resharper and Team Foundation Server) ○ No app size limit

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Xamarin For Everyone ● New home for the Mono Project ○ Mono contributed to the .NET Foundation ○ Mono re-released under the MIT license ○ Clarified rights to Mono under Microsoft patents. More on the Mono Project blog. ○ .NET and C# on iOS, Android, Mac, Windows as well as PS4, Xbox One, and beyond

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Xamarin For Everyone ● Xamarin SDK to be open sourced under the MIT license ○ Native API bindings ○ Command line tools ○ Popular cross-platform native UI toolkit - Xamarin.Forms

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Xamarin For Everyone How is Xamarin’s mobile platform unique?

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How is Xamarin’s mobile platform unique? ● Apps built on .NET with C# or F# ● Native app binaries, not interpreted ○ iOS - Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compiled to native ARM assembly ○ Android - Just-in-Time (JIT) compiled to native assembly on app start ● 100% API coverage across iOS, Android and Windows ● Support for all new releases from Apple and Google

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Xamarin For Everyone | Setup ● System Requirements + Installation and Setup

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Xamarin For Everyone | Reference Applications Prebuilt Apps ● Xamarin.iOS ● Xamarin.Android ● Xamarin.Forms ● Platform-specific features

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Xamarin For Everyone | Community ● Frequently Asked Questions ● Xamarin Forums ● Slack | Xamarin Chat ● Xamarin Evolve 2014 videos ● Podcasts ○ Xamarin Podcast ○ Gone Mobile

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Questions?

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Thank You Follow on Twitter: @nashxam Join us the 3rd Tuesday each month Something to share? Sign-up for Lightning Talks each month or speak with an organizer about presenting