Presentation prepared for BarCamp Nashville 2013 about building Xamarin Android apps that can interact with iBeacons. #bcn13 #bcn13droid

1. R2 - Where Are You?
Droid Beacons with Xamarin
Chris Riesgo
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2. Chris Riesgo /
@chrisriesgo
Senior Software Developer /
@LeanKit
mobile, web, xamarin.android, .net, homebrewer
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3. What are beacons?
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4. What are beacons?
● Micro location
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5. What are beacons?
● Micro location
● UUID Broadcast
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6. What are beacons?
● Micro location
● UUID Broadcast
● Extremely low energy usage
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7. Android → iBeacons
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8. Android → iBeacons
● Radius Networks
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9. Android → iBeacons
● Radius Networks
● Android iBeacon Service
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10. Android → iBeacons
● Radius Networks
● Android iBeacon Service
● Xamarin - i can haz? :(
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11. Xamarin
MonoDevelop → Xamarin Studio (IDE)
MonoDroid
→ Xamarin.Android (Android)
MonoTouch
→ Xamarin.iOS (iOS/Mac)
C# → Native
Cross-platform
Droid Beacons with Xamarin
Mono
Shared code
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12. Xamarin.Android → iBeacons
● Xamarin Bindings (C# Wrappers)
Droid Beacons with Xamarin
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13. Xamarin.Android → iBeacons
● Xamarin Bindings (C# Wrappers)
● Reuse existing Java libraries (.jar)
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14. Xamarin.Android → iBeacons
Droid Beacons with Xamarin
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15. Xamarin.Android → iBeacons
● Xamarin Bindings (C# Wrappers)
● Reuse existing Java libraries (.jar)
Xamarin Android iBeacon Service
Droid Beacons with Xamarin
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16. DEMO
“R2 - Where Are You?”
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17. Q&A
Droid Beacons with Xamarin
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18. Chris Riesgo /
@chrisriesgo
about.me/chrisriesgo
github.com/chrisriesgo
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