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 ...

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 ...

When it comes time to debug your Xamarin Android apps, you have several options. You can debug your application in an emulator or on your own smartphone. Your phone can be connected to your computer ...

Microsoft's Xamarin team announced the availability of Xamarin.Android 9.0 (P) Preview, letting Visual Studio developers target the next big update to Google's Android mobile OS. MessagingStyle and ...

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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 ...

Microsoft acquired the cross-platform iOS, Android and OS X development service Xamarin last month, and the new acquisition is already at the center of attention at Microsoft’s annual Build developer ...

Microsoft has signed an agreement to acquire Xamarin, a cross-platform mobile software development specialist. The move is designed to help bolster Microsoft’s ‘Universal Windows Platform’ (UWP) ...

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 ...

At long last, Microsoft has bought Xamarin, This company's claim to fame is that with its Mono project, it's open-sourced a great deal of Microsoft's .NET Framework and C# language for Linux and more ...