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Microsoft Evangelist Presentation
September 13, 2012
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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
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Over 170,000 developers building Consumer & Corporate apps & Games
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Popular Xamarin & MonoGame Games
Bastion Draw A Stickman Infinite Flight Monster Stack 2 Bye-Bye Brain Smashing Planets
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Guest Customer: Hitcents
Hitcents is a game developer & provides custom development services Guest Customer: Hitcents Draw A Stickman available for iOS and soon Android & Windows 8 View 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
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Family of mobile apps that lets users manage Windows Media Center PC from anywhere
Guest Customer: Ceton Available for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and soon Windows 8 View 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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Headline Your own sub headline OVERVIEW
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Achieve Broad Reach. Quickly.
Be on the devices your app end users expect Speed time-to-market with up to 90% code sharing
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Complete access to iOS & Android UI and APIs
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 – Flight simulation, very demanding from a performance perspective. 99% code re-use across Windows and iOS. TouchDraw – vector drawing app, very demanding from a performance perspective. Android release in 2 weeks. Total Android dev, 3.5 months with 75%+ code re-use. Planning a Windows 8 app after Android. Rdio - Rdio – consumer app, where the user experience makes or breaks the company Infinite Flight TouchDraw Rdio
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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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Headline Your own sub headline DEMO
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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook
Top Challenges: Native is a Must “The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native.” Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook Fast time-to-market Powerful IDE support Code sharing & re-use Xamarin is the only platform providing full native performance and features across device platforms
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Top Challenges: Heterogeneous Device World
Fast time-to-market Powerful IDE support Code sharing & re-use Through code sharing and re-use, Xamarin empowers developers to get to market quickly with iOS, Android and Windows apps
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Xamarin allows businesses to leverage existing teams, skills & tools
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
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Impact: Protect and Expand Your Developer Ecosystem
Stop .NET developer attrition to Objective-C Convert XNA developers to Windows 8 Entice iOS & Android developers Convert Silverlight & ASP.NET developers to mobile
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Microsoft Evangelist exclusive program: Generation X
Demo & Sample code. Give-away Licenses for Events Free Evangelist licenses Generation X Evangelist Hotline Collateral & assets
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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 Check your mail for our Microsoft Evangelist care package Call Nat if you need anything
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Headline Your own sub headline Thank You
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Headline Your own sub headline Additional Slide Assets
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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
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Xamarin for iOS Development
MonoTouch Design screens with Xcode (or hand-craft in C#) Advanced debugging on simulator and devices
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Xamarin Tools MonoDevelop IDE
Auto-complete, refactoring, debugging, simulator-integration Cross-platform solutions make code sharing easy iOS & Android on Mac Android on Windows
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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)
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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
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Xamarin Tools Visual Studio Plug-in
Android development with C# has first-class support Autocomplete, debugging, UI designer
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