2. Your hosts
Nat Friedman Miguel de Icaza James Montemagno
CEO and Co-Founder CTO and Co-Founder Developer Evangelist
nat@xamarin.com
@natfriedman
miguel@xamarin.com
@migueldeicaza
james.montemagno@xamarin.com
@jamesmontemagno
3.
4. Make it fast, easy and fun
to create great mobile apps
Our Mission
5. Explosive Growth
Over 600,000 registered developers
32,000 new developers per month
Customers in 120 countries
Visionary in the Gartner Magic
Quadrant
# of developers
17. Anything you can do in Objective-C or Java
can be done in C# with Xamarin using Visual Studio
18. Unrivaled Mobile Development Training
Live unlimited mobile development training from mobile experts,
in your time-zone, on your schedule and as often as you'd like
20. Major Elements of Xamarin 3
1. Xamarin Designer for iOS
2. Xamarin Studio & Visual Studio Enhancements
1. Easy code sharing
2. Xamarin.Forms
21. Xamarin Designer for iOS
Fully integrated into Xamarin
Studio & Visual Studio
iOS 6 & 7 Storyboard support
Intuitive event handling
Support for auto-layout
Live preview of custom controls
23. NuGet Package Manager
NuGet support combined with the Xamarin Component Store gives Xamarin
developers the most comprehensive ecosystem of libraries at their fingertips
26. Shared Projects
The easiest way to
share code
Eliminates the hassle
of file-linking
Easier to collaborate
with other Xamarin
Studio and
Visual Studio users
30. Xamarin.Forms
Quickly and easily build native
user interfaces using shared code
Xamarin.Forms elements map to
native controls and behaviors
Mix-and-match Xamarin.Forms
with native APIs
Shared App Logic
Shared UI Code
38. Q & A
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More discussion at:
forums.xamarin.com
@XamarinHQ
#Xamarin3
Editor's Notes
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Expensive to staff multiple platform-specific teams
Expensive to maintain multiple code bases
Slows innovation
Poor user experience
– API coverage
– Performance
High abandonment rates
Wasted investment
As you will see in our demos with Xamarin.Forms that 75% shared code can go even higher.
Fully native apps written in C#
Share on average 75% source code across platforms
C# + .NET Runtime
Native UI
Native Performance