{"id":8108,"date":"2014-02-26T13:39:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T12:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=8108"},"modified":"2014-02-26T13:39:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T12:39:12","slug":"x-is-for-xamarin-one-company-that-is-pleased-to-see-nokia-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/8108-x-is-for-xamarin-one-company-that-is-pleased-to-see-nokia-x.html","title":{"rendered":"X is for Xamarin: One company that is pleased to see Nokia X"},"content":{"rendered":"

Xamarin<\/a>, which provides cross-platform development tools for targeting iOS and Android wtih C#, is not exhibiting here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but does have a presence for meetings, and I caught up with Joseph Hill who is Director of Developer Relations.<\/p>\n

Xamarin has just announced a joint SDK with SAP<\/a> along with some SAP-specific support in its cloud testing service; but Monday\u2019s announcement of Nokia X, Android smartphones from soon-to-be-Microsoft Nokia, was even bigger news from Hill\u2019s perspective.<\/p>\n

If you are a Windows Phone developer with apps written in C#, Xamarin gives you a way to port your code to Nokia X. Apparently Nokia itself has taken advantage of this to port Nokia Mix Radio, as described by Nokia\u2019s developers here<\/a>. Nokia also used MVVM Cross<\/a> in order to take cross-platform abstraction beyond what Xamarin itself gives them (Xamarin is deliberately restricted to non-visual code). <\/p>\n

Nokia states that it will do all future development using Microsoft\u2019s Portable Class Libraries, and is also refactoring existing code:<\/p>\n

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The final step in our journey towards the common architecture is to throw out the legacy code from the Windows Phone and Windows 8 apps so they\u2019re stripped back to existing PCL shared assemblies and then integrate them with our fully shared codebase. Now that the Nokia X has launched that\u2019s the next major goal we\u2019re striving towards and work begins now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I imagine that Xamarin could prove useful in some of Microsoft\u2019s other internal projects as it prepares for a world in which there is an official Microsoft Android platform.<\/p>\n

As an aside, it seems to me unlikely that Microsoft will do anything other than run with Nokia X after the acquisition. Microsoft is supporting Nokia X with Skype and OneDrive, which is an indication of its attitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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