xamarin.forms introduction
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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