1. Cross Platform Development with Xamarin & Visual Studio 2013
Mark Arteaga | President | RedBit Development
Brian Sherwin | Technical Evangelist | Microsoft

2. Meet Mark Arteaga | ‏@MarkArteaga
RedBit
Xamarin Premier Partner & Microsoft Partner
Developer for 15+ years with focus mobile and backend systems
Worked with large enterprises, startups and software companies
Design & build internal enterprise and consumer facing software
Microsoft MVP for 11 years
Embedded Devices, Compact Framework, Windows Phone, Windows
Xamarin Certified Developer (almost )

3. Meet Brian Sherwin | @bsherwin
Technical Evangelist, Microsoft
Teach and Inspire developers on Microsoft development technologies
Azure, Windows and Kinect
Developer for 17 years on Microsoft Platform
Mobile development as far back as Windows CE
Web development for online banking, healthcare, energy and education

4. Course Topics Cross Platform Development with Xamarin & Visual Studio
01 | Intro to Xamarin using Visual Studio
02 | iOS Development with Xamarin & Visual Studio
03 | Android Development with Xamarin & Visual Studio
04 | Code Sharing Techniques & Xamarin.Forms
05 | UI Test Automation using Xamarin.UITest

5. Setting Expectations Target Audience
Developers Familiar with Visual Studio
C# Developers
Windows Developers
Suggested Prerequisites/Supporting Material
Windows
Mac OS
Windows 8.1
Visual Studio 2013 Update 2+
Xamarin 3.5+
Xamarin.iOS
Xamarin.Android
Android SDKs
Windows Phone 8.0 & 8.1 SDK
OS X
XCode
Android SDK
For more information and details on installing see Installing and Configuring Xamarin on Mac & Installing and Configuring Xamarin on Windows

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7. 02 | iOS Development with Xamarin & Visual Studio
Mark Arteaga | President | RedBit Development
Brian Sherwin | Technical Evangelist | Microsoft

8. Module Overview How Xamarin.iOS Works iOS App Lifecycle & Structure
Using UITableViews
Using Storyboards
Using MapKit

9. How Xamarin.iOS Works

10. What is Xamarin C#
Xamarin

11. Build + Execution Model
Features
Code runs as 100% native app
“Ahead of Time” (AOT) Compiling
Generic Classes from NSObject
Some Limitations
Dynamic Code Generation
Cannot use Reflection.Emit
No Remoting
More Info

12. iOS Runtime Model iOS App Native Code Mono Runtime .NET BCL
Native APIs
MapKit
UIViewController
HealthKit
Etc.

13. iOS Application Lifecycle & Structure

14. Not Running
Foreground
Inactive
Active
Background
Backgrounded
Suspended
Xamarin.iOS notifies us of all these states using various overrides in AppDelegate.cs

15. OnActivated(UIApplication)
AppDelegate.cs
State
Method
Not Running
OnActivated(UIApplication)
Active
OnResignActivation
Inactive
DidEnterBackground
Backgrounded
WillEnterForeground
Suspended
WillTerminate

16. Views AppDelegate.cs ViewController.cs Storyboard AppDelegate
UIViewController
Storyboard

17. Model-View-Controller (MVC)
Updates UI
Changes Model
View
Controller
User Sees Changes
Performs Action

18. Application Properties, Lifecycle & Structure – Heritage Properties

19. Using UITableView

20. UITableViewDataSource
Parts of a TableView
UITableViewSource
UITableViewDataSource
UITableViewDelegate
Data
UITableViewCell

21. Loading Data in TableView – Heritage Properties

22. Using Storyboard & Navigation

23. Storyboards & Segues

24. Navigating to a Details View – Heritage Properties

25. Using MapKit

26. iOS Maps - MapKit

27. // in ViewDidLoad you can do the following
var map = new MKMapView (UIScreen.MainScreen.Bounds);
View = map;

29. // add a pin – called Annotation
map.AddAnnotation (new MKPointAnnotation (){
Title=“My Pin",
Coordinate = new CLLocationCoordinate2D ( , )
});

30. Loading Data in Map View – Heritage Properties

31. Module Recap How Xamarin.iOS Works iOS App Lifecycle & Structure
Using UITableViews
Using Storyboards
Using MapKit