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Build xPlat Client Apps
PhoneGap vs Xamarin
Joe Homnick
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Agenda
The three big mobile platforms
Native development tools
Native development concepts
Xamarin: C# on 3 billion devices
Xamarin tools and workflow
PhoneGap and other HTML5 hybrids
PhoneGap tools and workflow
Pros and cons and when to use what
Mobile Platforms
iOS
Android
• Storyboards
• Objective C
• Xcode
• XML-based UI
• Java
• Eclipse/Android
Studio/IntelliJ IDEA
Windows
Phone/Windows
8
• XAML-based UI
• C#, VB, C++,
JavaScript
• Visual Studio
Earlier, 4%
OS Versions
iOS 6, 22%
Windows
Phone 7.x,
30%
iOS 7, 74%
Froyo (2.2),
1.60%
Windows
Phone 8,
70%
KitKat (4.4),
1.10%
Gingerbread
(2.3.x), 24.10%
Honeycomb
(3.x), 0.10%
ICS (4.0.x),
18.60%
JellyBean (4.14.3), 54.50%
Mobile Market Share
IDC: World-Wide Smartphone Shipments (Millions of Units)
Quarter
Android[
iOS
BlackBerry
OS
Windows
Phone
Other
Total
2013 Q4[
226.1
51.0
1.7
8.8
2.0
289.6
Mobile Browse Usage
iOS Basic Concepts
Foundation/UIKit
View controllers
Storyboards and segues
Table views
Android Basic Concepts
Android SDK
Activities
Intents
ListViews and adapters
Windows Runtime Basic Concepts
.NET Framework
Pages
Navigation
ListViews and binding
Xamarin
Founded in 2011 by Novell ex-employees
Based on the Mono project – launched on 2001
Brings the .NET Framework to Linux and OS X
Xamarin took it to the next step: all major
platforms – iOS, Android, Linux, OS X
Officially partnered with Microsoft
Over 460,000 developers live, 20,000 paying
customers, 120 consulting partners
Used by more than 20% of Fortune 500 companies
Why Xamarin?
Reuse your company’s current development
investment
Keep using Visual Studio (or Xamarin Studio)
Same-day support for all new API’s
100% platform API coverage
All latest C# goodness – LINQ, async\await, TPL
Average of 75% code sharing!
Scan your code for conformance:
scan.xamarin.com
Xamarin Application Architecture
PhoneGap
PhoneGap is an open source mobile
development framework
Developed by Nitobi Software
Purchased by Adobe
Renamed to Cordova after the shift to Adobe
Enables building mobile device applications
using the Web technology stack –
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Hybrid Apps
A PhoneGap application is considered hybrid
They are neither truly native, nor purely web-based
All layout rendering is done via the Web View
Supports 7 platforms
What Is PhoneGap All About?
Getting Started with PhoneGap
Set up your development environment
PC, Mac
Xcode, Eclipse, Visual Studio
SDKs, JDKs, plug-ins
Same as for Native Development
Adobe® PhoneGap™ Build – upload
your HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript assets to a
cloud service which does the work of compiling
for you
Summary
Native development tools and concepts
The Xamarin promise
PhoneGap and HTML5 apps