Microsoft and Xamarin are stepping up their integration work to make it easier for developers to write apps for iOS and Android devices using C#. On November 13, the pair announced there's now tighter ...

App developers, take heed: There’s a way to create apps for both iOS and Android simultaneously. Dive into the Xamarin Cross Platform Development Bundle, and you’ll master an efficient tool devoted to ...

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Xamarin, a mobile application development startup that has grown very chummy with Microsoft, said Thursday it raised a $54 million Series C round. San Francisco-based Xamarin lets developers build ...

Lots of decisions go into creating cross-platform apps. Without Xamarin.Forms, the decision process is almost too unwieldy. Here's how it can simplify your mobile development. Over the past several ...

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 ...

There are many potential options when it comes to building cross-platform applications. They offer varying level of code reuse and usually an inverse level of device capabilities. The tools offered by ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Microsoft has signed an agreement to acquire Xamarin, a ...

Microsoft is discontinuing Project Astoria, an effort announced last year to bring Google Android mobile apps to its Universal Windows Apps fold. Instead, the company is encouraging developers to look ...