1. Microsoft 2016
1/26/ :19 PM
BRK3114
Create cross-platform mobile apps with Xamarin that connect to Office Services (BRK3114)
Fabian G. Williams
Sr. Technical Specialist / K2
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2. About the Speaker
Fabian Williams, MCSD, MCDBa, MCSE Sr. Technical Specialist K2
@FabianWilliams linkedin.com/in/fabiangwilliams

3. Objectives
Discover how Xamarin gets you from Zero to Hero for the Mobile Platform
Understand the API available to you for Office 365 and what it provides
How to build a truly Cross-Platform Mobile experience with Xamarin.Forms
Develop a Business Use Case (or two, or three)
Peeking into Visual Studio.. The Go-To IDE for building Xamarin Solutions
Deconstruct a Real World AMS solution with Xamarin.Forms
Build together an Mobile App for iOS, Droid & Windows consuming Office Services

4. Technology Covered in 1 Hour
Xamarin Fundamentals
Graph API
Visual Studio Mobile Development
Xamarin.Forms C#
Git ALM
Each of these technologies can be a topic of their own but we are going to explore each of them as a complete solution. I am not expecting us to become experts on all these in the one hour “BUT” I have created (1) Public GitHub Repo with all my Code (2) Videos snippets of the work here on YouTube (3) Blog Posts explaining the more difficult or impactful topics.

5. Don’t U worry bout a ting Mon!
For this Session “BRK3114”
Detailed Xamarin / Azure / Office Services / Mobile Blog–
My overall GitHub Repo –
A Gist Recipe on how to set up Windows Azure MS with Xamaring.Forms–

6. Session Flow Xamarin 101 Overview Graph API Overview
Xamarin.Forms & Business Case Overview
Project Deconstruction and Build Anew
aka. DEMO Time
Testing in
iOS, Android
Windows UWP
& Gotchas /Best Practices
Questions
Comments
Answers

7. Old School
Build App Multiple Times
Swift

8. Coming of Age
Lowest Common
Denominator

9. Where we are now! Xamarin Leads the way!
Native With
Code Sharing

10. Windows API’s

11. iOS API’s & with Xamarin >> 100 % Coverage

12. Droid API’s & with Xamarin >> 100 % Coverage
Anything you can do in Objective-C, Swift, or Java can be done in C# with Xamarin using Visual Studio

13. Session Flow Xamarin 101 Overview Graph API Overview
Xamarin.Forms & Business Case Overview
Project Deconstruction and Build Anew
aka. DEMO Time
Testing in
iOS, Android
Windows UWP
& Gotchas /Best Practices
Questions
Comments
Answers

14. Integrating with Office 365

15. What do you get with the Graph?
Single endpoint for:
Accessing data
/me, /users, /groups, /messages, /drive, ….
Traversing data
/drive/<id>/lastmodifiedByUser
Accessing insights
/insights/trending
Work/School and Personal

16. One “Graph” to rule them all
One endpoint to access it:
Operation
Service endpoint
GET my profile
GET my files
GET my photo
GET my mail
GET my calendar
GET my manager
GET last user to modify file foo.txt
GET users in my organization
GET group conversations
GET people related to me
GET my tasks
GET my notes
GET files trending around me

17. Get hands dirty with some Postman
1/26/ :19 PM
Get hands dirty with some Postman
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18. Building Apps using the Microsoft Graph
Gateway to data and insights in Office365
Easy traversal of objects and rich relationships
Web Standards, Open Platform
Secure data access
OAuth2.0
OpenID Connect
REST
JSON

19. Session Flow Xamarin 101 Overview Graph API Overview
Xamarin.Forms & Business Case Overview
Project Deconstruction and Build Anew
aka. DEMO Time
Testing in
iOS, Android
Windows UWP
& Gotchas /Best Practices
Questions
Comments
Answers

20. Xamarin + Xamarin.Forms => Goodness //
With Xamarin.Forms:
more code-sharing, native controls
Traditional Xamarin approach
Shared UI Code

21. Why Xamarin.Forms
Quickly and easily build native user interfaces using shared code
Xamarin.Forms elements map to native controls and behaviors
Mix-and-match Xamarin.Forms with native APIs
Shared UI Code

22. What do you get with Xamarin.Forms
40+ Pages, Layouts, and Controls
Build from code behind or XAML
Two-way Data Binding
Navigation
Animation API
Dependency Service
Messaging Center

23. Views (Controls) ActivityIndicator BoxView Button DatePicker Editor
Entry
Image
Label
ListView
Map
OpenGLView
Picker
ProgressBar
SearchBar
Slider
Stepper
TableView
TimePicker
WebView
EntryCell
ImageCell
SwitchCell
TextCell
ViewCell
+ MORE!!

24. Layouts
Stack
Absolute
Relative
Grid
ContentView
ScrollView
Frame

25. Pages
Content
MasterDetail
Navigation
Tabbed
Carousel

26. Session Flow Xamarin 101 Overview Graph API Overview
Xamarin.Forms & Business Case Overview
Project Deconstruction and Build Anew
aka. DEMO Time
Testing in
iOS, Android
Windows UWP
& Gotchas /Best Practices
Questions
Comments
Answers

27. Demo Fabian G. Williams Microsoft 2016 1/26/2018 11:19 PM
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28. Session Flow Xamarin 101 Overview Graph API Overview
Xamarin.Forms & Business Case Overview
Project Deconstruction and Build Anew
aka. DEMO Time
Testing in
iOS, Android
Windows UWP
& Gotchas /Best Practices
Questions
Comments
Answers

29. Session Flow Xamarin 101 Overview Graph API Overview
Xamarin.Forms & Business Case Overview
Project Deconstruction and Build Anew
aka. DEMO Time
Testing in
iOS, Android
Windows UWP
& Gotchas /Best Practices
Questions
Comments
Answers

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