Microsoft Evangelist
Presentation
September 13, 2012
Shared Goal: Drive Developer Success with Mobile
Protect & Grow the Microsoft
Developer Ecosystem
Drive rich apps with native
experiences
Make it fast, easy and fun
for developers
Over 170,000 developers building
Consumer & Corporate apps & Games
Popular Xamarin & MonoGame Games
Bastion
Draw A Stickman
Infinite Flight
Monster Stack 2
Bye-Bye Brain
Smashing Planets
Guest Customer: Hitcents
Hitcents is a game
developer & provides
custom development
services
Draw A Stickman
available for iOS and
soon Android &
Windows 8
View video @ xamarin.com/generationX
“Xamarin made it possible for us to get Draw A Stickman
developed for Windows 8. We saved thousands of
engineering hours and months of development time. “
Chris Mills, President, Hitcents
Guest Customer: Ceton
Family of mobile apps
that lets users
manage Windows
Media Center PC
from anywhere
Available for iOS,
Android, Windows
Phone and soon
Windows 8
View video @ xamarin.com/generationX
“We were able to achieve over 65% code re-use across
iOS, Android and Windows platforms. We are excited to
bring our apps to Windows 8 thanks to Xamarin.”
- James Montemagno, Mobile Lead, Ceton
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OVERVIEW
Achieve Broad Reach. Quickly.
Be on the devices your app end users expect
Speed time-to-market with up to 90% code sharing
Native UI, Features and Performance. No Compromises.
Complete access to iOS & Android UI and APIs
Native binary, not interpreted, for responsive, fluid performance
under the most demanding app scenarios
Infinite Flight
TouchDraw
Rdio
Rich IDE Support
Point and Click UI generation
Code completion to explore iOS and Android APIs
Powerful debugging on device or simulator
Use Visual Studio or our own cross-platform IDE
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DEMO
Top Challenges: Native is a Must
Fast time-to-market
- Powerful IDE support
- Code sharing & re-use
“The biggest mistake we
made as a company was
betting too much on
HTML5 as opposed to
native.”
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO,
Facebook
Xamarin is the only platform providing full
native performance and features across device
platforms
Top Challenges: Heterogeneous Device World
Fast time-to-market
- Through
Powerful IDE
support
code
- Code sharing & re-use
sharing and re-use,
Xamarin empowers
developers to get
to market quickly
with iOS, Android
and Windows apps
Top Challenges: Native developers are scarce & expensive
Xamarin allows
businesses to
leverage existing
teams, skills &
tools
“Xamarin’s platform enabled our engineering team to become
native mobile developers almost overnight, eliminating the
expense of hiring scarce, expensive platform-specific
developers.”
David Fuller, Vice President of Software R&D
April &July, 2012 Freelancer.com, Q-Q growth
Impact: Protect and Expand Your Developer Ecosystem
Stop .NET
developer
attrition to
Objective-C
Entice iOS
& Android
developers
Convert XNA
developers
to Windows 8
Convert
Silverlight
& ASP.NET
developers
to mobile
Microsoft Evangelist exclusive program: Generation X
Free
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licenses
www.xamarin.com/generationX
Give-away
Licenses
for Events
Calls to Action
✔ Fire up Xamarin to see how fast, easy and fun it is to build great apps
✔ Play with Xamarin apps on your devices
✔ Identify app publishers that need this solution
✔ Work with us to make them successful
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✔ Call Nat if you need anything
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Thank You
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Additional Slide Assets
Xamarin for iOS Development
MonoTouch
•Write for iPhone, iPad and iPod using C#
•Brilliant performance: apps
compiled to native binaries
•Complete access to Apple’s
APIs and UI controls
•Complete .NET framework
Xamarin for iOS Development
MonoTouch
• Design screens with Xcode
(or hand-craft in C#)
• Advanced debugging on
simulator and devices
Xamarin Tools
MonoDevelop IDE
• Auto-complete, refactoring, debugging, simulator-integration
• Cross-platform solutions make code sharing easy
iOS & Android on Mac
Android on Windows
Xamarin for Android Development
Mono for Android
•Write for Android using C#
•Complete access to Android’s APIs and UI controls
•Complete .NET framework
•Develop on Windows inside Visual Studio
(or Windows & Mac with MonoDevelop)
Xamarin for Android Development
Android Designer
• Drag and drop
• Target screen-size,
orientation, Android
versions & more
• Saves standard
Android XML
• Right inside Visual
Studio and MonoDevelop
Xamarin Tools
Visual Studio Plug-in
• Android development with C# has first-class support
• Autocomplete, debugging, UI designer