1. Mobile Development w/ MONO By: Chad W. Stoker (MCTS, MCP, MCAD) President & Chief Technology Officer Bryan E. Paslay (MCTS, MCP) Senior Consultant

2. Intro to Mono for Android MONO explained ◦What is the CLR? ◦F#, VB.NET, Iron Python, COBOL.NET, C# Android explained ◦OS ◦Default coding language ◦Default IDE MONO for Android ◦Visual Studio ◦Emulators ◦Deployment

3. Android Versions 2.3 and Below ◦Gingerbread (Phone OS) 3.x ◦Homeycomb ◦Tablet 4.x ◦Ice Cream Sandwich ◦Basically 3.x applied to phones As of Nov 2011 98% of devices are 2.3 and below ◦86% are 2.3 and 2.2 Use API levels 9 and 10 cover Version 2.3

4. Benefits of Mono for Android Base Class Library ◦Easy and familiar for.Net developers ◦Language features like Lambdas, Events, LINQ, etc… VS2010 Not daunting for.Net developers to get started

5. MONO Solution Structure Android Manifest Debug settings Folder structures in projects ◦Resources  Drawable  Layout  Values ◦Assets ◦Views (code-behind) ◦Adding Folders and how they are represented

6. Activity What is an Activity ◦Basically it is a screen ◦It is not an application ◦Should do a single function ◦Can navigate between activities in the same app or different apps using Intents

7. Activity Life Cycle

8. Hello World (MONO Android style) Demonstrate Activity1.cs Show how the entry-point to any App works. Show how to add ‘View’ controls to an existing view. Show how to update the Resource.id enumeration list Discuss the emulator and debugging

9. Learning about basics in Mono How to add additional “Views” (Layout.axml) How to add and navigate to additional Activities ◦Actually launching an Intent Understand how/why Views can be synonymous with the term “Control”. How to work with application-level constants.

10. Activities and Intents What is an Intent ◦Way apps leverage other apps functionality ◦Pass Intent Filter and Android OS looks for an intent that meet the need ◦Can Pass Extras and Get back data Launching an “intent” ◦Texting somebody from an app ◦Emailing ◦Taking a picture

11. Android Preferences What is a Preference? Preference Types ◦CheckBox ◦Ringtone – build in selector for ease of use ◦EditText ◦List ◦Switch ◦Dialog ◦Category – visual divider ◦Screen Create a Preference

12. Android Menus Types of Menus ◦Options ◦Context ◦Sub Create a Option Menu

13. Android Dialogs Types Of Dialogs ◦Alert ◦Progress ◦Custom ◦Data and Time Picker Create Alert Dialog

14. Implementing List Views List views described List Adapters explained ◦Data-binding

15. SQLite interface Create SQLite DB Insert / Query data Set Up Linq to SQLite Bind Data From Database Sqlite-net

16. Deploying APK’s to phones Project Properties and MONO tabs The importance of the “signed” versus “un-signed” APK’s. Walking through the installation process http://xamarin.com/monoforandroid