Need some help on xamarin Platform. I understand it can be used to develop Android-base and iOS-base App on Xamarin. I have the following questions:
For Android and iOS-based app develop on Xamarin, can the app run on Android-tablet ad iOS-tablet respectively? what I need to do for both tablets respectively?
If there are new controls for android and iOS, how Xamarin will update this for development?
1) Yes they can run on Android Tablet and iPad. Your code logic would remain the same but you would need to provide for the UI since the resolutions are different.
For iOS, Xamarin makes it simple by providing for a Universal template which allows you to provide different layouts for iPhone & iPad.
For Android, there is no template as such but the process remains the same just as you would for phones with different resolutions.
2) Assuming you are talking about the default controls, they will made available in the Xamarin framework via their regular update channels. First they are in Alpha, then in Beta and once the bugs have been ironed out, they are made available to Stable channel which can then be used in the production apps safely.
I would recommend you go through their docs which are quite good and explains this whole thing in quite detail. Xamarin Docs
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I am new to Xamarin development. And, currently I want to integrate the zendesk chat.
As per my RnD and after contacting Zendesk support center they are not supporting the xamarin yet.
Currently they have sdk for native android and ios respectively.
I need you expertize people's guidelines for the development regarding what scenario i should follow to achieve the same using xamarin.forms :
Integrate the both platforms native sdk's for xamarin in each platform and later call it from Xamarin.Forms by adding platform dependency using Device.OnPlatforms . ( I am not sure about this scenario, please suggest)
Create a jar/aar of Zendesk SDK and use it using binding library concept.( I am not sure it will be accessible into ios platform)
Kindly, suggest me the best approach for this.
Any sample reference for suggestions will be grateful.
Thanks in advance.
I think it's a mix of number 1 and number 2 (and a little extra).
You will need to create the Binding libraries for both iOS and Android. Xamarin has a good documentation of how to do this: Android/Java and IOS/Objective-C
Then you can go either with Xamarin Native (Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android projects) adding the binding to each project. Or you can go with Xamarin.Forms but this will require a little more work as you will need to create an interface of the methods you want to use from the SDKs (most likely all off them) and create the implementations for each platform.
Let's say your interface is called: ISendeskSdkService you will need at least two implementations: ISendeskSdkServiceiOS and ISendeskSdkServiceDroid. These implementations will be on the Platform project and they will be calling the binding libraries you just created and added to each of these projects.
You will be developing your app on top of your interface and which implementation to use will be set on the application load when you are configuring your IoC.
Hope this gives you an idea.
Onsen-ui 2.0 provides material and flat components. If we want to follow vendor design guidelines we should use material for android and flat for ios. How should I do without using full switch android or ios on my templates ?
With Onsen 2.0, they are enabling this exact feature. Onsen 2.0 will automatically detect the platform and switch between iOS and Material for you. Check out this blog post from yesterday that explains it all in detail: https://onsen.io/blog/what-is-material-design/
This is the relevant quote though from that link:
We have also gone one step further by adding automatic styles. What
this means is that an Onsen UI app will use the Material Design
components when running on the Android platform while it automatically
switches to the flat design when running on iOS.
I will be waiting for Beta 7 , Have you decided the date of release. Switch based on platform is going to be a fantastic feature.
I want to use these tools with Xamarin
Visioglobe 3d maps
Metaio SDK for Augmented reality
they are working well with native android and iOS apps.
And I would like to know if we can use these tools with Xamarin, Does xamarin support them?
And how to integrate a Xamarin app with them.
[DISCLAIMER] I'm an engineer at Visioglobe.
You've probably moved on already, but I'll reply anyway in case someone else is interested.
To this date, there is no indication, either way, that Visioglobe's VisioMove SDK will work with the Xamarin platform.
If you have already chosen Visioglobe for your application's map, then I would suggest strongly to use the traditional IDE's to reduce any risk of potential conflicts.
I have an existing application developed using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 C#. I just purchased Xamarin's Monotouch product which allows me to use their IDE MonoDev to create iPhone/iPad applications from scratch by coding C#. Right now I don't want to code a new application. I want take my existing C# application import the source into monodev/monotouch and have the result run on the iPhone/iPad. My existing C# application is designed for deployment on Android phones/tablets using Xamarin's Android product. It works great! I have begun wading into the Xamarin documentation, samples, tutorials etc. But I need to port the existing application to iPhone/iPad right now, right away. I really don't have the luxery to spend time learning from scratch. I've got to belive someone has already gone down this migration path. If you have can we talk, email, or do you know if there is a guide describing the specific steps to take to accomplish this?
TIA
Xamarin MonoTouch does not allow you to run any C# application and run it immediately on an iPhone. The UI layer is native, so the C# code that constructs the UI must use the Xamarin bindings onto the Apple UI APIs.
The 'standard' migration process is to create an empty MonoDevelop project then start adding your existing C# business logic files, resolving any compilation issues as they arise.
Anyone have the idea of which Javascript framework is much supported by the cross platform
for PhoneGap App development.
I search on the web and find the JQuery Mobile framework but it is not much compatible with the android it shows problem with UI while it is much supported by the iPhone.
There is any JSframwork supported by the all max platform?
Please Help..
I personally use DataZombie's fork of jQTouch - https://github.com/DataZombies/jQTouch
The transitions and scrolling all work fine on Android unlike some of the others.
Android doesn't have a built-in theme for Android the way it does for iOS, but I was able to put one together for my app fairly easily (it's just CSS and a few images). When it is more complete I will probably release it, but you should be able to do your own or use the jet one (that looks fairly Android-ish).
None of the frameworks really looks like a proper native Android app out of the box as far as I have been able to tell. Nearly all of them seem to have a very iOS-centric navigation system (back buttons in nab bars, etc) that just don't exist in native Android apps. One of the first things I did in my theme was to get rid of any back buttons thus relying on the hardware back button for backward navigation (more like what Android users expect).