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ArchitectureTools

Intro to Xamarin

Application types

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Supporting the platforms

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Expensive to staff multiple platform‐specific teams

Expensive to maintain multiple code bases

Slows innovation

Hybrid approach

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Poor user experience– API coverage– Performance

High abandonment rates

Wasted investment

Xamarin Approach

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Traditional Xamarin.Forms

Xamarin

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Xamarin exposes 100% of the native APIs for iOS, Android and Windows

Native Performance

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Xamarin.iOS does full ARM instructions compilation to produce an ARM binary for Apple’s App Store.

Xamarin.Android takes advantage of Just In Time (JIT) compilation on the Android device.

Native APIs Support

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Same day support:iOS 7, iOS 7.1, iOS 8, iOS 9, iOS 10, iOS 11, iOS 12

Also:• Google Glass• Android Wear• Android TV• Others…

Actual Apps in Xamarin

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Tools and Projects

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Visual Studio and Windows

Projects

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Toolbox and XAML

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Xamarin.Forms

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Pages

Layouts

ViewsActivityIndicator, BoxView, Button,DatePicker, Editor, Entry, Image, Label, ListView, Picker, ProgressBar,SearchBar, Slider, Stepper, Switch,TableView, TimePicker, WebView

CellsEntryCell, SwitchCell, TextCell, ImageCell

Docs

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Documentation

http://developer.xamarin.comorhttps://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin