1. An Introduction to
MonoTouch 5.2
Mobile App Development Platform
for iOS
http://xamarin.com/

2. Introducing MonoTouch 5.2 from Xamarin
1. Who is Xamarin?
2. MonoTouch and Mono for Android Overview
3. MonoTouch 5.2
4. Differentiators
5. Customers & Case Studies
6. Summing Up
More Info: http://xamarin.com/
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3. Xamarin Company Snapshot
 Founded in 2011 with the mission to make it fast, easy and fun to build great mobile
apps.
 Xamarin’s products:
 MonoTouch, Mono for Android
 Simplify creation, maintenance and operation of high-performance, cross-platform,
native UX mobile applications
 Phones, tablets and embedded devices - iOS, Android and Windows
 Xamarin stewards the Mono project: open source, cross-platform implementation of
C# / .NET framework
 Unique, customer-proven technology:
 500 developers download/day on average
 Enterprise: 3M, Medtronic, Target, TIBCO, etc.
 Consumer: AOL, iCircuit, Monster, Rdio, etc.
 Consultants / SIs: Accenture, ITR Mobility, etc.
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4. MONOTOUCH AND MONO FOR
ANDROID

5. MonoTouch and Mono for Android
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6. Native API Access - iOS
1,700 C# classes
 1:1 mapping to native
 Objective-C libraries User Code
 CoreFoundation
 iOS C libraries MonoTouch.* OpenTK System.*
Projected into C#
 Strongly typed OpenGL
 C# Events/Properties ObjC
Libraries
C
Libraries
and
OpenAL
Unix APIs
 Surface Lambdas Stacks
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7. Native API Access - Android
4,000 C# classes
 1:1 mapping to native
 Java libraries User Code
 OpenGL
 Android C Libraries C# Android.* OpenTK System.*
Projected into C#
 Strongly typed
 Enumerations Java
Android.*
C
Libraries
OpenGL
Stacks
Unix APIs
 C# Events/Properties
 Surface Lambdas
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8. Mono on Mobile
C# and its libraries on Mobile Devices
 Garbage Collection
 Strongly typed objects
 High performance
Strong Typing:
 Intellisense
 Helps explore the API from the IDE
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9. Xamarin.* APIs
Xamarin Mobile
Notifications
GeoLocation
Reporting
Photos +
Contacts
Audio
Video
Crash
 Most of the differentiation happens in the UI
 Some platform APIs do not bring much value (sometimes they’re not great APIs)
 Xamarin.Mobile is an extra layer to isolate developers from the platform.
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10. Xamarin Cross-Platform Apps
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11. Apps Showcase: http://xamarin.com/apps
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12. MONOTOUCH 5.2

13. MonoTouch 5.2 – Key Features
Faster and easier creation
of iPhone/iPad Dialogs
Improved memory
management to find,
diagnose and fix memory
leaks
New garbage collection
engine
Easier on-device unit
testing
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14. MonoTouch 5.2 – Faster Dialogs
Faster and easier creation of iPhone/iPad
Dialogs
 MonoTouch.Dialog is a new API that allows
developers to create HIG-compliant iOS
forms and dialog boxes
 Shows table-based information without
needing to write dozens of delegates and
controllers for the user interface
 Includes UITableView support and pull-to-
refresh as well as built-in searching
 Creates user interfaces dynamically on
demand from JSON data served up online
 More Info: MonoTouch.Dialog tutorial and browse
the online API documentation.
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15. MonoTouch 5.2 – Memory Mgmt.
Improved memory management to
find, diagnose and fix memory leaks
 New MonoTouch memory profiler
 Track managed objects’ memory usage
growth
 Track which objects are still referenced
 Track where objects are being referenced
from
 Generational garbage collector
 Improves garbage collection diagnostics
 More info: New MonoTouch memory profiler and
Generational garbage collector
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16. MonoTouch 5.2 – Unit Testing
Easier on-device unit testing
 Touch.Unit
 New unit testing framework to perform
on-device testing of individual functions
and procedures in MonoTouch
applications
 Run tests manually, or automate them
with Instruments
 More info: Tutorial on Unit Testing in
MonoTouch
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17. MonoTouch 5.2 – Additional Capabilities
 300+ customer requested
enhancements that make it
easier to develop great iOS
applications.
 A full listing of new features and
capabilities can be viewed from
here: http://blog.xamarin.com/
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18. MONOTOUCH DIFFERENTIATORS

19. Differentiators
Harness the full power of
C# and .NET.
Write shorter, simpler, and
more maintainable code
Use features like
LINQ, anonymous
types, lambdas and more.
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20. Differentiator: Less Code!
Faster, easier, less expensive maintenance
Objective C
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21. Differentiator: Less Code!
Faster, easier, less expensive maintenance
C#
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22. CUSTOMERS & CASE STUDIES

23. Xamarin Customers
600+ new developers each day
Amazing apps: http://xamarin.com/apps
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24. Xamarin Customers
Medtronic
mStar Application
 Integrate to back-end systems
 Sales orders
 Product registration
“The mStar application automates
manual processes and makes them
available 24/7 for the reps”
Jeff Bipes,
IT Manager, Field Services
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25. Xamarin Customers
JustEnough
Mobile SFA for NetSuite
 Fully integrated to NetSuite
 Provides field sales teams instant access
to opportunity and customer data, sales
forecasts and real-time calendar and task
management.
“Using .NET on the iPad is like a dream come
true”
Johan Otto,
VP Mobile Development Click image to play video
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26. http://xamarin.com/
SUMMING UP

27. Xamarin & MonoTouch - Summing Up
 Leading mobile app development technology
 500+ new developers each day
 Solving cross-platform mobile app development problems
for customers
 Reduce development time, complexity and cost
 Improve mobile app quality, stability and performance
 Unique, customer-proven technology and capabilities
 C# and .NET mobile app development for phones, tablets and
embedded devices running, iOS, Android and Windows
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28. More online
• xamarin.com/apps
• xamarin.com/monotouch
• xamarin.com/android
• docs.xamarin.com
• blog.xamarin.com
• youtube.com/xamarinhq
• twitter.com/xamarinhq
• linkedin.com/company/xamarin
• stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mono

29. An Introduction to
MonoTouch 5.2
Cross-Platform Mobile App Development
Targeting iOS
http://xamarin.com/