Microsoft said support for the Android emulator will be coming soon, but didn't give an exact timeframe. Mac users can sign-up to be notified when it's available from the Visual Studio website.

Investigating what kind of support the open source code editor has for Kotlin, recently named a first-class programming language for Android development.

Microsoft’s accommodations for iOS and Android in “15” are not its first, however. The company previously has offered capabilities for Android and iOS in Visual Studio.

Novell yesterday shipped the production version of its MonoDroid .NET application development tool for Android devices. Rebranded Mono for Android 1.0, the new release includes a Visual Studio 2010 ...

During Microsoft’s Connect 2015 event today live from New York, the company announced it is open-sourcing its Visual Studio Code program for developers and in the process bringing its Visual ...

Here’s an interesting one. Microsoft has created a Visual Studio Emulator for Android, and it’s a free download, which can be used separately from Visual Studio itself.