Available in the market since 2011, Xamarim offers programming tools specially adapted for Android, iOS and Windows mobile applications. Now completely free for Visual Studio users and properly adapted to all your editions, from the Community version to the Enterprise.
Microsoft will also release the Xamarim Android, iOS and Mac (under MIT pre-license) source code in the coming months, which will feature API links, basic command-line tools, build tools, and all the functionality required for Development of mobile applications. Also the native UI cross-platform toolkit, Xamarim Forms, will be available with Visual Studio.
According to Microsoft, the new acquisition will allow developers to benefit from the productivity and power of .NET for the development of mobile applications.
Starting today, you will be able to develop and publish iOS and Android applications (with C# or F#) directly from Visual Studio without any size limitation!
With these changes, .NET becomes a native open source on every device: from the mobile phone to the desktop to the cloud, making C# programming easier.
At Double Design and Development we have already worked with Xamarim! What are you waiting to contact us ?!