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1. Getting Started using
Mono for Android
Building Android Applications in C#
May 17, 2012
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2. Agenda
Introduction to Mono for Android
Mike Bluestein
Technical Writer
Xamarin Documentation Team
mike.bluestein@xamarin.com
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3. Introduction
This session will cover the following:
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4. Introduction
This session will cover the following:
Overview of Mono for Android
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5. Introduction
This session will cover the following:
Overview of Mono for Android
Building a Simple App
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6. Introduction
This session will cover the following:
Overview of Mono for Android
Building a Simple App
Using the UI Designer
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7. Introduction
This session will cover the following:
Overview of Mono for Android
Building a Simple App
Using the UI Designer
Creating a Multi-screen App
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8. Introduction
This session will cover the following:
Overview of Mono for Android
Building a Simple App
Using the UI Designer
Creating a Multi-screen App
System Provided Features
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9. Introduction
This session will cover the following:
Overview of Mono for Android
Building a Simple App
Using the UI Designer
Creating a Multi-screen App
System Provided Features
x86 Emulator Support
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10. What is Mono for
Android?

11. What is Mono for
Android?
• Platform that allows developing native
Android applications using C#

12. What is Mono for
Android?
• Platform that allows developing native
Android applications using C#
• Bindings to the Android Java SDK

13. What is Mono for
Android?
• Platform that allows developing native
Android applications using C#
• Bindings to the Android Java SDK
• Mono.Android.dll

14. What is Mono for
Android?
• Platform that allows developing native
Android applications using C#
• Bindings to the Android Java SDK
• Mono.Android.dll
• Enables code reuse to other .NET
environments such as iOS (via MonoTouch)
and Windows Phone

15. OS Support

16. OS Support
• OSX

17. OS Support
• OSX
• MonoDevelop

18. OS Support
• OSX
• MonoDevelop
• Windows

19. OS Support
• OSX
• MonoDevelop
• Windows
• Visual Studio 2010 Pro or above

20. OS Support
• OSX
• MonoDevelop
• Windows
• Visual Studio 2010 Pro or above
• MonoDevelop

21. Unified Installer
• Installs Mono for Android and all its
prerequisites

22. Simple Example

23. How does it work?

24. How does it work?
• Resource.designer.cs is generated for
Android resources

25. How does it work?
• Resource.designer.cs is generated for
Android resources
• Images, Strings, etc

26. How does it work?
• Resource.designer.cs is generated for
Android resources
• Images, Strings, etc
• Code compiled to .NET assembly

27. How does it work?
• Resource.designer.cs is generated for
Android resources
• Images, Strings, etc
• Code compiled to .NET assembly
• Android callable wrappers are generated
and Android package is created

28. UI Designer

29. UI Designer

30. UI Designer
• Available on both OSX and Windows

31. UI Designer
• Available on both OSX and Windows
• Visually construct view hierarchies

32. UI Designer
• Available on both OSX and Windows
• Visually construct view hierarchies
• Generates Android XML

33. UI Designer
• Available on both OSX and Windows
• Visually construct view hierarchies
• Generates Android XML
• Resource support

34. UI Designer
• Available on both OSX and Windows
• Visually construct view hierarchies
• Generates Android XML
• Resource support
• Themes

35. UI Designer
• Available on both OSX and Windows
• Visually construct view hierarchies
• Generates Android XML
• Resource support
• Themes
• Various device profiles

36. UI Designer
• Available on both OSX and Windows
• Visually construct view hierarchies
• Generates Android XML
• Resource support
• Themes
• Various device profiles
• Alternate views, conflict resolution

37. Android SDK

38. Android SDK
• Intents

39. Android SDK
• Intents
• Activities

40. Android SDK
• Intents
• Activities
• Services

41. Android SDK
• Intents
• Activities
• Services
• Content Providers

42. Android SDK
• Intents
• Activities
• Services
• Content Providers
• Fragments

43. Android SDK
• Intents
• Activities
• Services
• Content Providers
• Fragments
• Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.x)

44. Android SDK
• Intents
• Activities
• Services
• Content Providers
• Fragments
• Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.x)
• etc...

45. Multi-Screen Example

46. Existing Java Libraries
• Mono for Android ships with bindings for
Android SDK (in Mono.Android.dll)
• Third party Java libraries can also be used
• Java Binding Library project

47. x86 Emulator
• Available for Android
2.3.3 (API Level 10)
• Faster
• Startup
• Build, deploy, debug

48. References
Getting Started Series
http://docs.xamarin.com/android/getting_started
Tutorials
http://docs.xamarin.com/android/tutorials
Mono for Android Recipes
http://docs.xamarin.com/android/Recipes
Professional Android Programming with
Mono for Android and .NET/C#
Wallace B. McClure, Nathan Blevins, John
J. Croft IV, Jonathan Dick, Chris Hardy
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