Enterprise Mobility & Cross Platform Development from the trenches

This session, presented at Microsoft TechDays 2015 in The Hague, is about some hard lessons learned while developing cross platform apps in an enterprise environment. The colliding worlds of EMM platforms and cross platform tools can give you some headaches if you're not careful.

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2. Enterprise Mobility & Cross Platform Development Roy Cornelissen Lead Consultant @ Xpirit from the trenches
5. BYOD
6. Enterprise Management
7. All devices by
8. Corporate Data to
9. Intune
11. What about Privacy?
12. What about Older devices?
13. What about Low end devices?
19. Vendor “Magic box” Xamarin App logic
22. Wrapper App EMM API
23. Wrapper Core OS layer API layer Cross platform layer Application layer
24. Wrapper Core OS layer API layer Xamarin Application layer ModernHttpClient
25. APK File I/O SQLite IOCipher SQLCipher Java .dll
26. iOS 6: DIY iOS 7+: requires PIN
27. Wrapper App Requires an SDK
28. right there m’kay?
29. “We don’t see much demand”
30. “The API’s are not ready yet”
32. Let’s stick to standards Forget custom solutions
35. Leverage OS features instead Wrapping is too cumbersome
36. var keyValue = NSUserDefaults .StandardUserDefaults .DictionaryForKey ("com.apple.configuration.managed") ["keyName"] .ToString ();
37. var keyValue = NSUserDefaults .StandardUserDefaults .DictionaryForKey ("com.apple.feedback.managed") ["keyName"] = "value";
38. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <restrictions xmlns:android= "http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" > <restriction android:key="string" android:title="string resource" android:restrictionType="bool" android:description="string resource" android:entries="string-array resource" android:entryValues="string-array resource" android:defaultValue="reference" /> <restriction ... /> ... </restrictions>
39. android.intent.action .APPLICATION_RESTRICTIONS_CHANGED
40. UserManager .getApplicationRestrictions()
41. Core OS layer API layer Xamarin Application layer ModernHttpClient VPN per App
46. EMM platforms are immature
47. EMM platforms are unaware of cross platform tools
48. Assess every architectural decision or guideline
49. Data protection and policies should be built into the app
50. Use mobile optimized middleware for integration
51. ACE initiative looks promising but it’s just a start
52. @roycornelissen roycornelissen.wordpress.com rcornelissen@xpirit.com bit.ly/XpiritMagazine
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