I like iPhone & Android But I Know C#Chris Love

Mobility Practice Lead, Tellago Inc.http://ProfessionalASPNET.com

http://Twitter.com/ChrisLove

Tellago

Tellago Studios

Mobility Practice

• Mobile Application Development• Enterprise Mobile Strategy

−Line of Business−Deployment−Security−Governance

Market Reality

• Google Activates > 400,000 a Day

• Apple Activates > 250,000 a Day

• MSFT Sold 1.5 Million 1st Qtr 2011

• Millions of .NET Developers Worldwide

MILLIONS!!!

Market Reality

http://on.mash.to/k38NZw

Don’t Forget Tablets

“The key thing for marketers is the combination of larger screens and the touch Web really shouldn’t be underestimated,” Mr. Elkin said. “There are much higher interaction rates for the Web and apps among smartphone owners, and on a bigger canvas we expect those deltas to go even higher.”

MobileMarketer.com

http://www.mobilemarketer.com/cms/news/research/7342.html

You Know .NET

• Feeling Out of Place?• iOS Native Applications Require Objective-C & a Mac• Android Uses Java

Why Care?

• Reach Large Consumer Market− Consumer Engagement− Online Commerce

• Personal Devices in the Enterprise− Line of Business

Options

• True Native Development• MonoTouch & MonoDroid• Hybrid Applications• HTML5 Web Applications

Good Architecture

Phones, Tablets & Desktop

Service/BLL/DAL

Learn Native Platforms

• A Learning Curve & Initial Time Investment

• Dedicated Hardware (Mac & Possible Android)

MonoDroid

http://mono-android.net/

Price $99 (student) - $3999 5 Seat Enterprise $399 Professional

http://mono-android.net/Store

MonoDroid

• Runs Side By Side with Dalvik Virtual Machine

• Executes .NET code• Native to the Device• Wraps Android

Communications with Proxies

MonoDroid

Professional Android Programming with Mono for Android and .NET/C# by Wallace B. McClure & Friends

http://t.co/lKhUbH1

MonoTouch

• iOS Framework using C#http://monotouch.net/

• iOS API Bindings• Xcode/Interface Builder Parser• Static (AOT) Compiler

− Produces Native iOS Application

• Price $99-3,999http://monotouch.net/Store

MonoTouch

• iOS based on Mac OS X – Unix• Objective-C• Readable by C# Developers

MonoTouch – System Reqs

• Simulator−Max OSX−Apple iPhone SDK−Mono for OSX−MonoTouch & MonoDevelope IDE• AppStore Membership

MonoTouch

• Professional iPhone Programming with MonoTouch and .NET/C# Wallace B. McClure & Friends

• http://t.co/l1if8Gx

Mono

• What is the Future?• Concern Over Apple’s App

Terms & Conditions• Attachemate Fired Team

http://bit.ly/lsHH51

XAMARIN

• To Build New .NET offerings for iOS & Android−http://bit.ly/jXZmXa• Available This Summer

−http://www.xamarin.com/

Hybrid Applications

• Allow You To Develop Using Web Technologies

• Produce Native Applications• Can Be A Native-Wrapped Web

App

• PhoneGap, AppCellerator, etc, Roll Your Own

Phone Gap

• Application Written Once Using Web Technologies• Abstracts Device

APIs to JavaScript• Deploy To Multiple

Platforms• Submit to App

Stores

Phone Gap

• Debugging Can be Tricky• Requires Native Development Environment• Relies on 3rd Party UI Libraries

Phone Gap

HTML CSS AJAX

PhoneGap

Native Application

Appcelerator

• Converts Web Pages to Multiplatform Applications

• Desktop &/OR Mobile• Monthly Subscription Fee

−$49+

HTML5 + AJAX

• Cross Platform• Uses Web Technologies• Currently Limited Device

Access• Difficult Debugging

You Can’T!!!

FT.COM DID

HTML5

• Semantic Markup• Offline Capabilities• CSS3 Rendering• AJAX Driving

Web Application Layers

HTML

CSS

Server-Side Muckity Muck

AJAX

Mobile Browsers

• Webkit Most Common SmartPhone• Opera Most Widely Used• IE Mobile Getting Better on WP7• FireFox is Almost Non-Existent

Browser Performance

• WebKit, Opera and Internet Explorer all contain GPU accelerated Rendering Engines• JavaScript Engines Now Highly

Tuned and Fast Compared to Recent History

jQuery Mobile

• A jQuery Based Mobile UI Library

• Standard Themes Based on iOS

• Browser Capability Rating

http://jquerymobile.com

Sencha Touch

• Mobile Library for Ext JS Libraryhttp://sencha.com

• Works with PhoneGap• Commercial Product $595+

JS Mobile Frameworks

• jQTouch – Extends jQuery for iPhone−Part of Sencha Labs−Free!

• baseJS - iPhone• XUI – Opera, WebKit• iUI• iWebKit• Webapp.Net

The Device APIs are Coming!

• Geolocation• Touch• Media Capture• Accelerometer• Contacts• Calendar• Notifications• Orientation

• Battery• Network• Permissions• File• Gallery• Messaging• Tasks• Ink

Enterprise Management

• Deployment• Security• Provisioning• Tracking

Enterprise Deployment

• Applehttp://www.apple.com/support/iphone/enterprise/

−Enterprise Developer Program• Android

−Various 3rd Party Solutions−Manual Installation

• Windows Phone−TBD

Enterprise Security

• Authentication• Authorization• Use of Social Signon• Active Directory Federation•What About Lost or Stolen Devices?

Enterprise Provisioning

• What Devices Can We Trust?• Who Has Devices We Trust?• What to Do When They Change

Devices?−Backup/Restore• What to Do When They Change

Positions or Leave Company?

Enterprise Tracking

• What are Employees Doing In an App?−Telemetry−Used to Drive Application Features &

Optimizations

How Do You Share Data?

• What Data Do You Send to a Client?• What Data Do You Allow to Be

Stored on the Client and How?• VM Ware Optimizing Data to Device

−Enterprise Mobility Framework

How To Choose

Native Mono Hybrid HTML5

App Store X X X

Control Deployment

Y Y Y X

Hardware Access

X X X

Use Existing .NET Knowledge

WP7 X X X

Rich UI X X X X

Time To Market

4 3 2 1

Questions

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