Cross-platform mobile apps development
summary
Claims that Xamarin with C#/.NET plus Visual Studio lets one build Android iOS and Windows apps from one codebase and achieve 95% code sharing. Shows Xamarin.Forms UI translating to native widgets, MVVM architecture, Portable vs Shared projects, and native bindings for C++/Java. Demo runs identical app on Android and Windows, uploads photos to an Azure back-end with local SQLite sync and camera access. Notes need for a Mac to compile iOS and explains ahead‑of‑time and JIT compilation choices for native performance.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 2:06Why cross-platform development?
- 4:00Current Approaches
- 5:38Native Applications
- 7:09Development tools
- 9:47Tooling
- 11:00Visual Studio for Mac (preview)
- 12:24Native Compilation native performance
- 13:11How does Xamarin work?
- 14:22Platform Access with Xamarin
- 24:32Development Strategies
- 32:24Demo Architecture
- 33:33Foundation
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