Cross Platform Mobile Native Development with .NET

Building a cross platform native mobile application using MonoTouch, Mono for Android and Windows Phone.

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1. Cross Platform Mobile Native Development with .NET Mobile XConf Sydney Monday, 2 July 12
2. Why .NET? Monday, 2 July 12
3. “Pay attention to yourself and be aware of the first moment when you become consciously aware of the fact that you are experiencing some pleasure as you code” Ruby5 Podcast Monday, 2 July 12
4. One language rule them all MonoTouch Mono for Android Windows Phone Monday, 2 July 12
5. Mobile World Congress 2012 Conference App Xamarin’s mobile cross-platform app Available on AppStore, Marketplace and Google Play Cross platform data layer using SQLite Share business layer Native UI usage and device capabilities Monday, 2 July 12
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8. The Win iPhone + iPad (2,476 LOC / 2 Apps) – 57% Reuse Android (1095 LOC) – 60% Reuse WP7 (896 LOC) – 65% Reuse Monday, 2 July 12
9. OpenPanel Cross-platform, real-time, location based polling Monday, 2 July 12
10. ASP.NET MVC iPhone Android Windows Phone REST API SOCKET IO Vote Update Monday, 2 July 12
11. MvvmCross Cross platform MVVM platform for MonoTouch, MonoDroid, WP7 and WinRT Support data-binding for Android XML, MonoTouch XIBs and XAML Monday, 2 July 12
12. Model-View-ViewModel GUI design pattern originated from Microsoft All about data-binding View logics remains in ViewModel View binding is declarative Monday, 2 July 12
13. 1 Property, 2 Commands public class SampleViewModel { public string InfoText { get; set; } public ICommand LeftCommand { get; set; } public ICommand RightCommand { get; set; } } <Label Text={Binding InfoText} /> <Button Text="Left" Command={Binding LeftCommand} /> <Button Text="Left" Command={Binding RightCommand} /> Monday, 2 July 12
14. UIViewController Activity Page iOS Android Windows Phone ViewModel Local Storage View Navigation Remote Calls Geolocation Camera Contact Platform independent Monday, 2 July 12
15. 1 platform independent core library seperate platform specific projects Monday, 2 July 12
16. SignalR Async library for .NET to help build real-time, multi-user interactive web applications Support 4 transports: WebSockets on ASP.NET with Windows 8 Server Sent Events (EventSource) Forever Frame Ajax Long Polling Monday, 2 July 12
17. Demo Monday, 2 July 12
18. Questions? Monday, 2 July 12
19. Know more... Xamarin MWC https://github.com/xamarin/mobile-samples/tree/master/MWC MvvmCross https://github.com/slodge/MvvmCross SignalR https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR OpenPanel https://github.com/seanhotw/OpenPanel Find me on twitter @seansan Monday, 2 July 12