The Xamarin 3 overview webinar explains and demos the Xamarin iOS Designer, Xamarin.Forms, and some major IDE enhancements.

1. C# on 2.6 billion devices
@XamarinHQ
#Xamarin3

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

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

6. Enterprise Customers in all Verticals & Use Cases

7. Automatically test your app on
hundreds of mobile devices
Create native iOS, Android, Mac and
Windows apps in Visual Studio and
C#

8. What is native?

9. The Anatomy of a Native App
Xamarin apps look and feel native because they are native
Native User Interfaces Native API Access Native Performance

10. Architecting
Mobile Apps

11. The Silo Approach
Build App
Multiple Times

12. The Write-Once-Run-Anywhere Approach
Lowest Common
Denominator

13. Xamarin’s Unique Approach
Native With
Code Sharing

14. Windows APIs

15. iOS APIs | 100% Coverage

16. Android APIs | 100% Coverage

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

19. What’s new in
Xamarin 3

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

22. Xamarin Studio: Beautiful new look

23. NuGet Package Manager
NuGet support combined with the Xamarin Component Store gives Xamarin
developers the most comprehensive ecosystem of libraries at their fingertips

24. Xamarin Designer for iOS in Xamarin Studio

25. First Class F# Support

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

27. Demo

28. Portable Class Libraries

29. Xamarin.Forms
Native UI
C#
Native UI
C#
Native UI
C#
Shared C# App Logic Shared C# App LogicShared App Logic
Shared App Logic
Shared UI
Code
iOS
UI Code
Android
UI Code
Windows
UI Code
in C#
With Xamarin.Forms:
more code-sharing, native controls
Shared App LogicShared App Logic
iOS
UI
Android
UI
Windows
UI
Shared UI Code
Traditional Xamarin approach

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

31. Pages
Content MasterDetail Navigation Tabbed Carousel

32. Layouts
Stack Absolute Relative Grid ContentView ScrollView Frame

33. Controls
ActivityIndicator BoxView Button DatePicker Editor
Entry Image Label ListView Map
OpenGLView Picker ProgressBar SearchBar Slider
Stepper TableView TimePicker WebView EntryCell
ImageCell SwitchCell TextCell ViewCell

34. Demo

35. Xamarin 3 Recap
 Xamarin Designer for iOS
 Major IDE Enhancements
 Improved Code Sharing
 Xamarin.Forms
 So much more!

36. Key Attendees
xamarin.com/evolve

37. Key Attendees

38. Q & A
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