1. Introducing Xamarin 2.0 Introducing Xamarin 2.0 Michael Hutchinson
@mjhutchinson

2. What is Xamarin? C# and .NET for Android, iOS and Mac
Full native APIs – no compromise
Share code across Android, iOS, Mac, Windows Phone, Windows RT, Windows
Only platform that allows sharing code across these platforms while keeping native performance and UX

3. What’s New in 2.0? Xamarin Studio iOS for Visual Studio
The best IDE for mobile development
iOS for Visual Studio
Develop iOS apps from VS on Windows
Component Store
Drop-in components to build apps faster

4. What’s New in 2.0? New Pricing New Names Developer Center
An edition for every developer
New Names
Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.Mac
Developer Center
Massively revamped documentation website
World class tutorials and guides

5. Xamarin Studio

6. Xamarin Studio Streamlined development experience
Responsive, beautiful user interface
Unified global search

7. Xamarin Studio
Fast, smooth C# code navigation, completion and refactoring
Git and subversion integration
Powerful debugger
Available on Windows and Mac

8. iOS for Visual Studio

9. iOS for Visual Studio You asked for it, we delivered!
Write, build, deploy and debug iOS apps from Visual Studio
Take advantage of existing skills and extensions, for example TFS and ReSharper
Develop for iOS, Android, Windows Phone from a single solution

10. iOS for Visual Studio Connects to Mac over network
Seamlessly transfers compiled C# to Mac for native build, sign
Launch and debug on simulator or device

11. Component Store

12. Component Store Paid and free components
Add Components to your app directly from within XS or VS
Submit your own!

13. Developer Center

14. New Pricing

15. Xamarin Editions Free Starter Edition Indie Edition Business Edition
32kb of user IL, cannot link native code
Indie Edition
Unrestricted size and native linking
Business Edition
Visual Studio, WCF, support
Enterprise
App kickoff, priority support, free components
Trial
30 day trial of Business Edition

16. Xamarin Studio Tour and Demo

17. What’s coming? F# Support Portable Class Libraries Mono 3.0 runtime
Create iOS and Android apps with your favorite functional language
Portable Class Libraries
Build libraries that can be used from multiple frameworks, e.g. .NET 4, Xamarin.iOS, WP7
Mono 3.0 runtime
C# 5 with async support
Upgraded GC and class libraries
And more!

18. C# 5 Async
async Task<List<Customer>> GetCustomers (string url) { var client = new HttpClient (); try { string text = await client.GetStringAsync (url); } catch (Exception ex) { throw new FailedToFetchCustomersException (ex); } List<Customer> list = await ParseCustomerList (text); return list ?? new List<Customer> ();

20. Questions?