Scribd
Upload
64 views

Setting Up Your App Solution: Gill Cleeren

The document discusses setting up an app solution using Xamarin, including an overview of Xamarin and Xamarin.iOS, advantages and disadvantages of Xamarin, and how to set up a solution with code sharing between platforms using portable class libraries and shared projects.

Uploaded by

Jhon Kevin
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
64 views

Setting Up Your App Solution: Gill Cleeren

The document discusses setting up an app solution using Xamarin, including an overview of Xamarin and Xamarin.iOS, advantages and disadvantages of Xamarin, and how to set up a solution with code sharing between platforms using portable class libraries and shared projects.

Uploaded by

Jhon Kevin
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 28

Setting Up Your App Solution

Gill Cleeren
@gillcleeren
An overview of the Xamarin platform
Outline Xamarin and Xamarin.iOS
Setting up the solution
An Overview of the Xamarin Platform
Before We Knew About Xamarin…

© Gina Sanders / Dollar Photo Club


Or We Could Use the
Lowest Common Denominator…

HTML

JS

CSS

© amphotolt / Dollar Photo Club


Xamarin Allows Us to Target
All Major Mobile Platforms using C# and .NET

© georgejmclittle / Dollar Photo Club


Advantages of Xamarin

Leverage your .NET Native user


and C# knowledge interface

Native performance Code sharing


With Xamarin, we get the

NO-COMPROMISE
approach!
© gukodo / Dollar Photo Club
Disadvantages of Xamarin

Not a Shared UI
Learning curve
platform

Hardware
Price
requirements
The Xamarin Family

Xamarin.iOS Xamarin.Android Xamarin Forms


Xamarin and Xamarin.iOS
Available APIs in Xamarin.iOS
CoreGraphics
HealthKit
UIKit

HomeKit
MapKit

C#
System System.Linq

System.Xml System.Net

System.IO
© bramgino / Dollar Photo Club
How Xamarin Works on iOS

Mono Runtime +
ARM (app) code
.NET BCL

MapKit, Touch…

iOS
Your Choice of IDEs

Visual Studio Xamarin Studio


App
Deployment Goes Through the App Store

© sveta / Dollar Photo Club


Demo: Xamarin Studio
Demo: Visual Studio
Setting up the Solution
Code Sharing

Xamarin.iOS app Xamarin.Android app Windows Phone app

UI App layer UI App layer UI App layer

Shareable code

Service access layer Business layer

Models

Data layer Data access layer


%
Average amount of code we can share
in a cross-platform solution with Xamarin
PCL (Portable Class Library)

Library shared Lowest common Extendable to other


across platforms denominator platforms
Creating a PCL
Using a PCL
Configuring a PCL
Shared Project

Code is copied to Precompiler Similar to “old”


referencing project statements Universal Projects
Demo
Setting up the solution

© Kzenon/ Dollar Photo Club


Summary

Xamarin.iOS allows us to build fully native


iOS applications
Architecture often based on PCLs

You might also like