There are many potential options when it comes to building cross-platform applications. They offer varying level of code reuse and usually an inverse level of device capabilities. The tools offered by ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft bought Xamarin, the popular C#-and-.NET-on-iOS-and-Android, last month. At its Build developer conference today, the company announced the first big step for its new ...

Xamarin today unveiled version 4 of its cross-platform development suite, featuring a new Xamarin Mac Agent that lets developers build iOS apps completely from within the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE.

Cross-platform tools maker Xamarin is solidifying ties with its new parent company, Microsoft, while tackling app development for Apple iOS and Google Android with a series of technology rollouts ...

Xamarin is making C# development one step easier for iOS developers, enabling them to build applications in C# using Visual Studio. On February 20, Xamarin announced immediate availability of Xamarin ...

This week, Microsoft released a new preview build of the iOS Simulator for Xamarin on Visual Studio. Announced at Microsoft's Build 2016 developer conference, the iOS Simulator in Visual Studio allows ...

Xamarin, the mobile application development startup Microsoft was eyeing as an acquisition target a few months ago, is continuing to become more strategically important to Microsoft developers by ...

A few days ahead of the Windows 10 launch, Microsoft has released the latest version of its development environment. Over the last few years, Microsoft has been making Visual Studio into a tool for ...

One of the hardest challenges of mobile development is how to minimize the cost of building the same application for multiple platforms. Nick shows how to use Xamarin.Forms to develop a cross-platform ...

Microsoft recently brought out Xamarin, software based on letting people create programs using C# and .NET operating systems which can then be ported to both iOS and Android. This meant that using the ...