Unless you’ve been living on a planet far, far, away from the galactic trade routes, you know there are only two practical choices of programming languages — Java and Objective-C — for developing ...

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 ...

Flutter, Google's new mobile UI framework for creating native mobile apps, is already being targeted for Xamarin development in an open source project on GitHub championed by a handful of developers.

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 ...

Mobile app development frameworks like Ionic and Xamarin are very popular. Both aim to speed up, simplify, and open up app development to a broader group of programmers. The major difference between ...

Following years of rumors, Microsoft has acquired Xamarin, a company that aids cross-platform development of mobile applications. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. “With today’s acquisition ...

It’s possible to look back six years or so to see the roots of today in the open sourcing of .NET and the creation of the .NET Foundation. The platform needed an independent body to shepherd it ...

Although it was just this week released as a beta, the open source Flutter framework for cross-platform mobile app development is drawing comparisons with Microsoft's Xamarin in the developer ...

Well, damn, I was looking to get back into hobby programming, maybe write a small RPG. I was leaning toward C#, but also wanted to dabble in iOS development. Choices ...

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 ...