xamarin.forms introduction

Introduction into Xamarin.FormsAndres Castro

My Background• Graduated 2013 from Kennesaw State University

• Have been a C# ASP.NET Developer for the past year

• Transitioning to mobile development

• Little Android Experience

• No iOS/Window Phone Development Experience

Presentation Goals• To show how easy someone with little to no mobile

development experience can begin writing apps with

Xamarin.Forms.

• To show how you can convert old single platform

applications into cross platform apps that have a newer

look and feel.

What is Xamarin.Forms?Xamarin.Forms is a cross-platform, natively-backed UI toolkit

abstraction that allows developers to easily create user

interfaces that can be shared across Android, iOS, and

Windows Phone.

It essentially removes the need for a developer to have to

learn the UI tools for every device.

Available Pages

Available Layouts

Available Controls

Getting Started

Project Structure

PCL

Android

iOS

Lets take a look at the code…

Lessons Learned• Always keep your Xamarin up to date

– If a guide you are following is not working, check the

dates on it and make sure you are on the same version

as they are.

• Data binding is your friend