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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.
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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 Draw A Stickman Bastion Monster Stack 2 Infinite Flight 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
Headline Your own sub headline 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
Headline Your own sub headline DEMO
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
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
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 Demo & Sample code. Give-away Licenses for Events • www.xamarin.com/generationX Free Evangelist licenses Evangelist Hotline Collateral & assets Generation X
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
Headline Your own sub headline Thank You
Headline Your own sub headline 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’sAPIs 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 MacAndroid 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