the three awesome tools by xamarin : workbooks|inspector|profiler

The three Awesome tools by Xamarin

- Udara Alwis -

Workbooks / Inspector / Profiler

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Le awesome tools by Xamarin

Xamarin Workbooks Xamarin ProfilerXamarin Inspector

Xamarin Workbooks

Why? Xamarin Workbooks?• Learning Xamarin or even dot net? • Teaching or demonstrating some code demo? • Experimenting code?

You need to deal with,• IDE – Visual Studio• Create documentation• Compilate and Run?• Switch between here and there?

Behold Xamarin Workbooks!• blend of documentation and code and live previewing

Perfect for • Experimentation,• Learning and Exploring• Creating guides and Teaching aids

Features

• Code Editing

• Rich Text Editing

• Add packages and libraries

• Compiler Diagnostics / Console Output

• Preview Results (Console/Android or iOS emulators)

• Save and Share

Code Editing

• code completion and • suggestions (intellisense)

• syntax coloring, • Inline live-diagnostics,• multi-line statement support.

Rich Text Editing• Full text customizations• Text styling• Complete documentation capabilities

Add Packages and Libraries• Import Libraries on the go• Nuget packages• Search and add

Compile and Runtime Diagnostics• Compiler errors• Runtime diagnostics• Reusable variables throughout the workbook

Live Preview/Rendering• Console• Android• iOS

• Mac• WPF

DEMO – Xamarin Workbooks

Xamarin Profiler

Why? Xamarin Profiler?• As developers, make sure smooth User Experience

• make sure app is fully optimized• memory usage / resource usage• tackle mysterious crashes• flow of resource usage• where improvements are needed• native profilers can not help your Xamarin dot net code

Behold Xamarin Profiler!A tool that seamlessly integrates with your Xamarin application, collects, displays information to analyze your application.

• find memory leaks• resolve performance bottlenecks• add polish to your apps before getting them out the door.

• Based on : Mono Log profiler (command line profiler)

Xamarin Profiler Key Features / Instruments• Allocations - for tracking memory• Time Profiler - for tracking performance• Cycles - for tracking memory cycles

Additional features• Call Tree - Browse functions in the order they are called

• Sampling – Which function is taking the most time.

• Memory Snapshots - How memory isused at different points in time.

DEMO – Xamarin Profiler

Xamarin Inspector

Why? Xamarin Inspector?• As a mobile developer• A beautiful pixel perfect design

• Optimizing your UI• Recompile and run your application every time

• Even for slightest changes• Big hassle for large scale apps• Navigate to the same screen redundantly

Behold Xamarin Inspector!• Debug and explore running applications• Modify the UI without re-compiling the code

• Awesome 3D exploded view ofthe view layers

Xamarin Inspector Key Features • REPL - Interact with thecode in real time

• Visual Inspector - Visually view andedit the UI hierarchy interactively

• Supports Xamarin.Forms

DEMO – Xamarin Inspector

…well that’s it!Now go build something cool with these awesome tools by Xamarin!

Good luck and enjoy!

Thank You!

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