Xamarin - Why I started learning it?. And a brief overview of Xamarin

1. Credits: Scott Adams
We will start in few minutes…

2. My experience of learning cross platform mobile
development with
Xamarin
-Ankit Kashyap
(Analyst Programmer)
ankit.Kashyap@wipro.com
Very
Descriptive
title. Indeed!

3. About Me
• Proud Wiproite from last 6 yrs.
• Works as Analyst Programmer for Wipro MS-AppC team
• Web developer (Bunch of JS libraries+ Azure, SQL/EF; Windows Store, Xamarin/Android)
• @ankitwww www.linkedin.com/in/ankitwww/

4. This session
• Prerequisites:
 A little prior knowledge of C#
 Love for Apps 
 Software – Nothing for this session, but you need few after this session (I will show you them)
• Slides Available @ http://www.slideshare.net/AnkitKashyap/xamarin-why-i-started-learning-it
• Content level – Beginners

5. Today’s Story
• A learner's dilemma
• Cross Mobile Development Approaches
• Xamarin philosophy
• Required Software
• Hello world Demos
• Where to go from here?

6. A learner's dilemma
A Tale of “Self proclaimed COOL developer”

7. A learner's dilemma
A Tale of “Self proclaimed COOL developer”
I am not cool dev
anymore!
Launch Visual Studio Eclipse!

8. A learner's dilemma
A Tale of “Self proclaimed COOL developer”
C# & Mobile dev
fundamentals
???

9. Silo’d Approach??? No Way!
• Build Apps Multiple Times
• Multiple Teams
• Multiple Code Bases
• Different toolsets

10. Write Once, Run Anywhere Approach
• Least common denominator
• Browser fragmentation
• Developing & designing for 1 platform, happen
to get other platforms
Black Box

11. Xamarin’s Unique approach
• Native User Interface
• Native Performance
• Shared code across platforms
• C# & .NET Framework
• Full API Coverage

12. Xamarin’s Unique approach

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16. Xamarin’s Unique approach

17. Portable Class libraries
• Allow you to write code and produce libraries that can be shared across
multiple platforms
• Can share without Source code 
• Some limitations like they often require extra architectural effort to
separate profile specific code.

18. Demo time
• Software
• Documentation resources
• University – Online Classes
• Let’s build one project!!!

19. That’s all!!
@ankitwww www.linkedin.com/in/ankitwww/ http://www.slideshare.net/AnkitKashyap/xamarin-
why-i-started-learning-it

20. Picture Credits
• Xamarin internal pics have been taken from Xamarin documentation
resources (http://developer.xamarin.com/)