1. Developing Cross-Platform Applications with Visual Studio 2015
Sergii Baidachnyi
Principal Technical Evangelist
Microsoft Canada

2. App Development Strategies
Visual Studio
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App Development Strategies
Native platform technologies
Full access to device capabilities
Native performance
Highly customized per device
Limited access to device capabilities
Web performance
Device-independent
Easier management
Web technologies
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3. Developer tools Rich experiences Breadth of devices Desktop apps – WPF
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Developer tools
Win32
C++
Desktop apps – WPF
Universal Windows Apps
.NET
Visual C++ for cross-plat
Rich experiences
Breadth of devices
Visual Studio tools for
Apache Cordova
HTML
Browser-based applications
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4. Visual Studio 2015

5. Xamarin

6. .NET and Xamarin Shared client app C# logic
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.NET and Xamarin
Share app logic across platforms
Native apps for Windows, iOS and Android devices using .NET
Most productive and powerful platform for creating native applications
Maximize code reuse with Universal Projects & Portable Class Libraries
100% APIs exposed
Everything you can do in xCode or ADT you can do with Visual Studio z
C# + XIB
C# + AXML
C# + XAML
Native UI
Shared
client app C# logic
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7. Windows APIs Microsoft.Phone Windows.Storage Microsoft.Devices
Microsoft.Networking
Windows.Storage
Windows.Foundation
Microsoft.Devices
System.Net
System
System.IO
System.Linq
System.Xml
System.Data
System.Windows
System.Numerics
System.Core
System.ServiceModel

8. iOS – 100% API Coverage MapKit UIKit iBeacon CoreGraphics CoreMotion
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iOS – 100% API Coverage
MapKit
UIKit
iBeacon
CoreGraphics
CoreMotion
System.Net
System
System.IO
System.Linq
System.Xml
System.Data
System.Windows
System.Numerics
System.Core
System.ServiceModel
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9. Android – 100% API Coverage
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Android – 100% API Coverage
Text-to-speech
ActionBar
Printing Framework
Renderscript
NFC
System.Net
System
System.IO
System.Linq
System.Xml
System.Data
System.Windows
System.Numerics
System.Core
System.ServiceModel
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10. 4/22/2017
Anything you can do in Objective-C, Swift, or Java can be done in C# and Visual Studio with Xamarin.
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11. UI design Create UI with drag and drop simplicity
Target multiple screen sizes, resolutions, and OS platform and versions
Layouts saved in native resource formats
World’s best Android designer available in Visual Studio
4/22/2017
UI design
iOS app designer in Visual Studio
Android app designer in Visual Studio
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12. Native compilation, native performance
Xamarin.iOS does full Ahead Of Time (AOT) compilation to produce an ARM binary suitable for Apple’s App Store
Xamarin.Android takes advantage of
Just In Time (JIT) compilation on the Android device

13. Xamarin + Xamarin.Forms
Shared C# Backend
Shared UI Code
iOS C# UI
Windows C# UI
Android C# UI
Shared C# Backend
Traditional Xamarin Approach
With Xamarin.Forms:
More code-sharing, all native

14. Visual Studio Emulator for Android
Fast, x86 image built from AOSP
Runs on Hyper-V
Comes with Visual Studio
Speaks ADB
Native capabilities and sensors
Zoom, Rotation, Network, Location, Accelerometer, Battery,
SD Card, Camera, Audio playback, Keyboard Input, Configurations

15. Apache Cordova

16. <webview> Your JavaScript App
What is Cordova?
Native Wrapper
Open source framework
Hosted webview in iOS and Android platforms, WWAHost in Windows platform
Single, shared HTML, JavaScript, and CSS codebase deployed to all targets
<webview> Your JavaScript App

17. <webview> Your JavaScript App
What is Cordova?
Native Wrapper
Open source framework
Hosted webview in iOS and Android platforms, WWAHost in Windows platform
Single, shared HTML, JavaScript, and CSS codebase deployed to all targets
Plugins provide a common JavaScript API to access device capabilities
<webview> Your JavaScript App
Cordova Plugin JS API

18. Create Cordova Project
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How does Cordova work?
Cordova Project
HTML, CSS, JS
Assets
Platform code
Plugin code
Configuration
Visual Studio Project
HTML, CSS, JS, assets
Windows-specific runtime
Windows-specific plugin code
Windows-specific configuration
Native Windows App
Create Cordova Project
Build Cordova Project
XCode Project
HTML, CSS, JS, assets
iOS-specific runtime
iOS-specific plugin code
iOS-specific configuration
Native iOS
App
Android Project
HTML, CSS, JS, assets
Android-specific runtime
Android-specific plugin code
Android-specific configuration
Native Android App
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19. Tools for Apache Cordova
CSS | HTML
JavaScript | TypeScript
Hybrid-HTML apps
Natural path for web developers targeting devices
Black Box
Cordova tooling in Visual Studio
Productivity of Visual Studio for hybrid apps
Scale to complex Enterprise apps through optional TypeScript support
End-to-end development workflow included for Windows, iOS and Android
Flexibility to use any JavaScript framework

20. Cross-Platform in C++

21. Cross-platform mobile apps in C++
Easy installation
One C++ IDE for cross-platform dev
Share and reuse cross-platform code
State of the Art code-editing features
Powerful debugging experience
Fast emulation

22. C++ the common denominator
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C++ the common denominator
Benefits
Full native experience
Total access to the device as provided by the SDK
Code Reuse
Performance
Security
Windows
iOS
Android
C#, CX
ObjC, Swift
Java
C++
C++
C++
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23. C++ the common denominator
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C++ the common denominator
.appx
.apk
.ipa
Shared C++ backend is compiled as:
XAML
.appx
.apk
.ipa
C#, C++/Cx
Java
Dex / ART
ObjC Swift
Dynamic Link Library (.dll) Static Library (.lib)
Dynamic shared library (.so)
Static library (.a)
XML
Cocoa Touch C# Cx
Java
Pinvoke C++ Wrapper
Java/C++ JNI Wrappers
ObjC Wrapper
Shared C++ Backend
DropBox
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24. NDK Build, Make files, Gradle, Ant
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Development tools for C++ cross-platform
Compilers
Visual C++ Compiler
GCC
Clang/LLVM
Build Engine
MSBuild, Nmake
NDK Build, Make files, Gradle, Ant
Xcode Build
IDE(s)
Visual Studio
Eclipse CDT
Xcode
Host Platform
Windows 8/8.1/10
MacOS X, Linux, Windows
Mac OS X
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25. Challenges with C++ cross-platform mobile
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Challenges with C++ cross-platform mobile
Multiple installation experiences
Maintaining multiple build tools and build systems
Debugging experience is not ideal
Multiple C++ IDE(s)
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26. Visual Studio 2015 Visual Studio 2015 Easy installation
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Visual Studio 2015
Visual Studio 2015
Easy installation
One C++ IDE for your cross-platform needs
Share and reuse cross-platform code
State of the Art code-editing features
Powerful debugging experience
Fast emulation
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27. Introducing!, Visual C++ 2015 (iOS)
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Introducing!, Visual C (iOS)
Develop iOS applications using Visual C++
Easily edit, build and debug your iOS code
Share and reuse your cross-platform code
Productivity of Visual Studio now available for iOS
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28. Build 2015
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Xamarin and Visual C
Xamarin Android native (C/C++) users will now be able to:
Build Android native Libraries (.so and .a) using Visual Studio
Debug their Android native using a powerful debugging experience
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29. Unity

30. Visual Studio Tools for Unity
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Visual Studio Tools for Unity
Its Free
Use Visual Studio to edit & debug code
Integrates VS with Unity
Provides
Shader syntax highlighting
Code templates
Intellisense
Full debugging support
VSTU
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31. Diagnostics Visual Studio Graphics Debugger
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Diagnostics
Visual Studio Graphics Debugger
Now with full Unity support
Supports
Single or multi frame capture
Frame level debugging
Memory profiling
Visual Studio 2013 CTP5 and above
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