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 ...

In an earlier column on Xamarin Forms app customizing, I looked at how realistic it is to create a Xamarin Forms (XF) application and how close it can tie to the platform. How close does an XF ...

Microsoft today announced it was open sourcing the technology behind its newly acquired Xamarin cross-platform mobile app development software, along with making Xamarin freely available in Visual ...

With the recent technological advancements in the Mobile sphere these days, we can use a phone to do almost anything. The major mobile market share is held by Google’s Android. Followed by Apple’s iOS ...

In less than a month Microsoft will end support for .NET’s first major cross-platform UI tool, Xamarin Forms. Instead of developers having to build separate UIs for Windows, iOS, and Android, Xamarin ...

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 ...

In its continuing push towards making its tools available across platforms, Microsoft announced Thursday that it will give Windows developers using .NET the native ability inside Visual Studio to ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2000, Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference was all about setting the scene for .NET, introducing many of the technologies we’ve used for the past two decades. Twenty years on, it’s fair ...