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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A couple years back I wrote an article for this very column covering how you could leverage many different languages in your Xamarin apps. In it, I included an F# portable class library that was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IBM has teamed with Xamarin in an effort to make it easier for C# developers to integrate back-end systems like databases with mobile apps. The growing popularity of smartphones has put pressure on IT ...

SAP has joined forces with Xamarin to make it easier for developers to integrate their apps with the company’s Mobile Platform. Xamarin’s platform lets developers use C# to build native applications ...

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 ...