Talk given at DublinAltNet on MonoMobile with a slant towards how it compares to HTML 5 solutions

1. MonoMobile
Cross-platform mobile dev
Jérémie Laval Alan McGovern
@jeremie_laval @amcgovern
Xamarin Hacker Xamarin Hacker

2. Who we are
• Young startup (June 2011)
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e p g h Mo o ra le.
n i .
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y rv i t o h Mo i wol
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Mot: r gs i s om b e eeo e fc
t bi ml t o i d vlp r ae
o n e l

3. What we do
MonoTouch Mono for Android
xamarin.com/monotouch xamarin.com/monoforandroid

4. How you may know us
Apps
Rdio mobile client gMusic iCircuit
Games
Infinite flight Unity3D Engine Soulcraft

5. What's cross-
platform anyway?

6. History repeats itself

7. Wait, what if we used...

8. HTML 5 is teh hype

9. ( Hype friendly reminder
with Gartner hype cycle
)

10. Traditional HTML 5 solution
• An application skeleton with a WebView
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b ib sd n o t o i pa om
t l t
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11. Traditional HTML 5 solution
• An application skeleton with a WebView
•
We k -ae o m s m b e l fr
b ib sd n o t o i pa om
t l t
•
H ML5/ S / aaci -ae
T C S Jvsr t b sd
p
•
T nai e tni s o d v e P
e tt e xe s n fr ei A I
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= A one-for-all-platform type of solution

12. Doesn't it ring a bell?
“Code once deploy everywhere”?
(“code once, debug everywhere”)

13. Doesn't it ring a bell?
“Code once deploy everywhere”?
(“code once, debug everywhere”)
Yup, Java

14. Doesn't it ring a bell?
“Code once deploy everywhere”?
(“code once, debug everywhere”)
Yup, Java
Today we all code in Java right?

15. Wait, it's actually worse
A mobile platform is infinitely
less streamlined than a desktop
!= Operating systems
!= Hardware
!= Input
!= User experience
!= API
!= Services
!= Dedicated programming languages

16. Fast pace anyone?
HTML 5 / CSS / JS is about being standard
Mobile is fundamentally non-standard

17. Fast pace anyone?
HTML 5 / CSS / JS is about being standard
Mobile is fundamentally non-standard
MonoTouch supports new iOS version in days
The HTML 5 specification isn't even final

18. Not even talking about
Debugging experience

19. Or
Browser discrepancy

20. In fairness
HTML5-based solution are fine for app with
existing HTML-based content

21. In fairness
HTML5-based solution are fine for app with
existing HTML-based content
( Although we also have WebView! )

22. At Xamarin

23. Our vision
• We think all-in-one solutions are flawed

24. Our vision
• We think all-in-one solutions are flawed
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25. Our vision
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26. Our vision (graphed)

27. What our xplat looks like
http://blog.xamarin.com/2012/02/24/mwc_2012/

28. XPlat libraries
Xamarin Mobile API

29. Other x-plat libraries
• MonoCross - http://code.google.com/p/monocross/
• Vernacular - https://github.com/rdio/vernacular
• MonoGame - http://monogame.codeplex.com/
• SQLite-net - https://github.com/praeclarum/sqlite-net
• ...