Write C# on the iPad and iPhone. This presentation was given at the Silicon Valley Code Camp on Oct. 6, 2012

1. Introduction to
MonoTouch
C# on iOS
Ash DCosta
@SoftwareWeaver
www.Ashvil.net

2. About me
• Founder and chief architect – Mobi Weave, Inc.
• 20+ years experience in software with Intel, i2
Technologies, IdentityMine, i3Connect and Wells
Fargo

3. MS BI on iOS SharePoint on iOS
App Catalog

4. What is MonoTouch?
Platform to enable C#/.NET programs on the iPad,
iPhone and iPod Touch

5. Dislike Objective-C

6. Then you will love
MonoTouch

7. .NET on iOS

8. How does this work
Your
Mono Code
Libraries
CIL
Native ARM Code
via AOT and linking

9. AOT -> Link -> Binary
MonoTouch uses Ahead-Of-Time compilation to produce
a single statically compiled ARM binary
AOT compilation pre-generates the native code that the
JIT would normally generate from IL
Links this together with the JIT-less runtime into a single
native binary that can be signed

10. API
Complete coverage of
Apple iOS SDK
Close to .NET4 client
profile (minus Windows
specific frameworks)
Super set of windows
phone 7 .NET API
Binding API for Obj-C
controls

11. Memory Management
Retain - Garbage
Release Collector

12. IDE

13. Xcode Integration

14. Debugger

15. Simulator

16. Settings

17. Demo
Shake Maps

18. Sharing Code
Cross platform C# on iOS, Android, Windows, Windows Phone

19. Multi-Platform Architecture

20. Pub-Sub with
TinyMessenger
TinyMessenger
Business Layer UI Layer
Publisher Subscriber

21. Cross Platform

22. MonoTouch.Dialog

23. MonoCross MVC

24. Getting Started
xamarin.com/monotouch

25. And Best Docs ever

26. Credits
Thanks to Xamarin and the Mono team
for an awesome product
Also thanks to MonoTouch evangelists for images

27. Questions