Mobile development with Xamarin

An experience review of Sprettur trying to develop our first* mobile app

About Sprettur

Lots of .NET/Java experience

What is Xamarin

• The story of Mono
• The birth of Xamarin

Who is using Xamarin

Why Xamarin

• .Net languages on multiple platforms
  • automatic memory management (missing in Obj-C)
  • LINQ, generics, etc.
  • async/await
• Visual Studio
• Use a lot of the libraries you love from .NET
• Cross-platform code re-use
• Day one compatibility
• Native code on each platform
• No common UI framework*

Xamarin fyrir Android

• Umhverfi
  • Windows 8
  • Visual Studio + ReSharper
  • Git á Windows
  • Restsharp
• Samhæfni
  • Auðvelt að nota Android API
  • Stuðningur við Java

Xamarin fyrir Android

• Undir húddinu
  • Android forrit nota JIT compiler
  • Xamarin forrit eru native og nota hann líka

Xamarin fyrir Android

• Documentation
  • http://docs.xamarin.com/guides/android/
  • http://developer.android.com/reference/packages.html
  • http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/ArrayAdapter.html
• UI hönnun
  • Skjástærðir
  • WYSIWYG
• Vinnuflæði
• Demó

Xamarin for iOS

• Environment
• Compatibility
• Documentation
• Books
• UI design
• Workflow
• Demo

Why not Xamarin

• price
• app size
• no Xcode/Eclipse

Thank you

@pshomov and gudmundur.pall@Facebook