In a previous post, we learned how to set up Xamarin and Visual Studio for Android development and covered one or two basics of how it works. We also looked at some basic code to allow us to count ...

Cross-platform development reduces the development and maintenance effort for mobile apps. Microsoft's acquisition of Xamarin benefits companies who operate mainly as a Microsoft "shop". Xamarin is ...

Your guide to all aspects of how Xamarin has implemented .NET 4.5/C# 5's support for asynch operations in Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android. One of the great things about the .NET Framework is that ...

Xamarin is a cross platform tool for building Android and iOS apps using Visual Studio (VS). It can potentially save you vast amounts of time by allowing you to build an app with a single code base ...

Jonathan Pryor, a Xamarin.Android Development Lead, was kind enough to take some time out of a busy weekend to answer a few questions regarding Xamarin.Android and the company's support for the new ...

Xamarin has been bringing .NET to iOS and Android developers for a number of years, including enabling iOS development from within Visual Studio. Microsoft, of course, has been doing the same for ...

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Xamarin, the C#-centric cross-platform app development service, is hosting its second annual Evolve developer conference today. The company is using this occasion to release a large number of updates ...

With the recent technological advancements in the Mobile sphere these days, we can use a phone to do almost anything. The major mobile market share is held by Google’s Android. Followed by Apple’s iOS ...

Xamarin 2 opened up Visual Studio to support the development of iOS and Android apps using the C# language and .NET library when it arrived on the scene last year. Today, Xamarin has released Xamarin ...

Xamarin, which allows C# and .NET developers to built native Android and iOS apps, is now bundled with all versions of Visual Studio. Yes, that includes the free Community Edition — and Microsoft ...

After years of “will they, won’t they” speculation, Microsoft has finally announced it will purchase Xamarin, the company that brought native Android and iOS development into Visual Studio. The ...