LTH07 Building an App for Android with Xamarin

03/13/2014

8:00am - 9:15am

Level: Intermediate

Nick Landry

Senior Technical Evangelist

Microsoft

In this session you'll learn how to build an Android client app that makes use of the same business logic as a WinRT (Windows 8) client app, as well as leveraging the same back-end services in the same way as WinRT.

Android is a popular development target for modern apps, providing usability on phones and tablets. Xamarin is a powerful toolset that allows developers to write native Android (and iOS) apps using C#. The one area where Android is unique is in the UI design and implementation, but even there Xamarin allows the code controlling the UI to be written in C#. In this session you'll learn how to build an Android client app that makes use of the same business logic as a WinRT (Windows 8) client app, as well as leveraging the same back-end services in the same way as WinRT.