An introduction to using Xamarin with C# for building cross-platform mobile apps. A fully featured and surprisingly pleasant alternative to Android Studio!

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It's interesting to look at the needs of various segments of developers. When I first start looking at an environment, the first thing I need to understand is the UI. I'm not magically born with some ...

Microsoft is discontinuing Project Astoria, an effort announced last year to bring Google Android mobile apps to its Universal Windows Apps fold. Instead, the company is encouraging developers to look ...

While Xamarin does not intend to develop XobotOS further, it is, like Android, open source, published under the Apache license.

Xamarin's development lead offers insights into the Android 5 Lollipop update and how the speed with which Android releases spin out affects their own releases.

Xamarin is furthering its mission to make C# the mobile-development language of choice by allowing iOS coders to use Microsoft's Visual Studio.

Microsoft will buy Xamarin, maker of .NET tooling that can build apps for iOS, Android, and OS X, for an undisclosed sum. When Microsoft first launched .NET in the early 2000s, it promised a cross ...

Microsoft has set up a new landing page aimed at developers who use Windows and work with cross-platform developer tools such as Node.js, React, Java, Kotlin, Python, Xamarin, and Android Studio ...

GUI frameworks for .NET – Part 3: Android, iOS, macOS and .NET MAUI This part of the series is about Microsoft's .NET interfaces that also run on platforms other than Windows, in particular .NET ...