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In this article, we'll talk about Xamarin, a C# .NET tool enabling development of cross-platform mobile applications. We'll focus on the missing part: the reuse of native libraries. What is Xamarin? Xamarin is not only a product but also a company. The product addresses a common issue, the unified cross-platform development. Xamarin allows to create native applications on iOS, Android and Windows Phone platforms. Its upside lies in the reuse of code, reducing the time to market. Xamarin also provides its own development environment, Xamarin…

Android applications are commonly used to process very sensitive data. It is the developer's responsibility to make sure that the information prompted by the user cannot be intercepted easily by a malicious people. The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) [9,10] tries to enumerate the potential security issues of a mobile application. Some of them are the system architect's responsibility (such as issues related to weak server sides control), some are the back end developper responsibility (issues related to authentification checks) and finally, some are…

When it comes to mobile applications, quality analysis is often overlooked. At first glance these short development bursts don't fit the usual canvas that comes with thorough monitoring, alerts and whatnots. What if this was just a misconception? What if the cost of setting up a proper automated quality tracking environment was actually really low? This article follows a presentation we held at soft-shake last October.