There are two schools of thought when it comes to mobile application development. The first says that only by developing on the native mobile platforms can an application be created which leverages ...

If you develop in C#, you can now build apps for iPhone and iPad … and hundreds of millions of Android smartphones and tablets. And you can do it all right on your PC in your favorite development ...

Also new in this version is the Xamarin Studio, a new integrated development environment (IDE) that, as Xamarin CEO Nat Friedman writes in today’s announcement, “is tightly integrated with the iOS and ...

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 ...

There's no doubt iOS development is hot right now, with all the iPhone 8/iPhone X hoopla, the new iOS 11 recently shipping with cutting-edge features and so on. But there's that pesky Mac thing. Apple ...

Your Xamarin Forms App needs one more little tweak, and that's to make it device-specific, so users don't freak out. Unlike the Apple tweak, the Android tweak takes a bit of work. Last time, I looked ...

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 ...

Xamarin has announced Test Cloud, an automated service that lets mobile developers test their apps on hundreds of mobile devices. Getting an application to work properly on multiple mobile devices is ...

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 ...

It’s been a few years since Microsoft first made it clear that the old “Windows-only” days were behind it. Microsoft continues to push Windows 10, but it’s also putting serious resources behind ...

Microsoft is in the final stages of negotiations that could lead to either an acquisition or major investment in Xamarin, a mobile startup whose tools make it possible to code iOS and Android apps ...