Piece of Advice Reading time: 16 minutes.Considering Other Options: Xamarin vs Hybrid Development vs Native iOS/Android vs Other Cross-Platform Frameworks.Switching from Android Studio or Xcode to Visual Studio.Θ Compatibility Issues with Third-Party Libraries and Tools.ΘXamarin.Forms Will Soon Cease to Exist.Θ Xamarin Talent Pool and Community Constraints.Θ High Cost for Professional and Enterprise Use.Θ Limited Access to Open Source Libraries.Θ Slightly Delayed Support for the Latest Platform Updates.⊕ Xamarin support of TVs, wearables, and IoT.⊕ Building apps for Macs with Xamarin.Mac Tool.⊕ Xamarin.Forms: a framework for creating native UI layouts.⊕ Open Source Technology with Strong Corporate Support.⊕ One Technology Stack to Code for All Platforms.Interestingly, the majority of apps built using Xamarin are line-of-business/enterprise apps, according to Xamarin officials. In However, Xamarin officials think C# is the ideal mobile-development language and the one that's easiest for mobile devs of all stripes to use to write iOS, Android and Windows 8 apps. While the Xamarin team has ribbed Microsoft about Redmond's rekindled C++ (and newfound JavaScript/HTML5) love, they still believe Microsoft "is doing an incredible amount of work around the. As a result, Xamarin was free to build the Xamarin.iOS for Visual Studio product that is the cornerstone of today's Xamarin 2.0 platform. Microsoft removed restrictions four or five years ago that prevented VSIP partners from extending Visual Studio for non-Microsoft platforms.
Xamarin's founders have been members of Microsoft's Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program since Friedman and cofounder Miguel de Icaza were at Novell. "Now developers can build native (C#) applications on four platforms: Windows, iOS, Mac OS and Android. "This is the first time anyone has made it possible to build iOS applications using Visual Studio," Friedman said. A key priority during that time was to build parity between Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio.
Xamarin has been beta testing the new IDE for about nine months, said Nat Friedman, CEO and cofounder of Xamarin. The 2.0 release also includes Xamarin.iOS for Visual Studio - a plug-in that allows iOS developers to write native C# apps using Microsoft's Visual Studio suite. On February 20, Xamarin announced immediate availability of Xamarin 2.0, which includes Xamarin Studio, a new integrated development environment (IDE) and the Xamarin Component Store. Xamarin is making C# development one step easier for iOS developers, enabling them to build applications in C# using Visual Studio.
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