Overview of the pieces needed to continuously provide and SDK or API Client from a Swagger API specification, also showing tools for the .NET Platform. This Slide Deck is from a Lightning talk at Xamarin Meetup Munich from April 12, 2017

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Continuous SDK
Simplifying backend integration with an auto-
generated SDK
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Johannes Ebner // @Structed

2.  SDK – Software Development Kit
 You probably used one before 
 Basically an encapsulation of something „alien“ to your platform
 All dependencies satisfied
What is a SDK?
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3.  Far less implementation work
 Don‘t have to learn that many new things
 Do not have to cope with internal calling mechanisms
 Gist: Makes using external stuff easier!
Why use a SDK?
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4.  Creating an SDK is work-intensive
 And so is maintaining
 Automation is essential
Why Continuous
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5. Swagger - http://swagger.io/
OpenAPI Specification - https://www.openapis.org/
How?
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6. Swagger
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7. Creating a SDK
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8. Creating a SDK
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9. Creating a SDK
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10.  PCL Profile Level
 Return types sometimes not correct
 Building an automation pipeline
 Versioning
 NuGet packaging
Too Easy!
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Thank you!
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Johannes Ebner // @Structed