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 ...

It's interesting to look at the needs of various segments of developers. When I first start looking at an environment, the first thing I need to understand is the UI. I'm not magically born with some ...

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Portable Class Libraries create a single DLL that can be used across platforms, making code sharing easier. Learn how to use them by building a weather app with a portable core. In the past, sharing ...

A company has substantially ported Google's Java-based Android software to use C# and the .NET framework, a move that could be the first step towards creating an Android-like operating system that ...

The latest GUI framework from Microsoft has the unwieldy name .NET Multi-Platform App UI – or MAUI for short. However, .NET MAUI is not completely new, but a refactoring and further development of the ...

Microsoft will buy Xamarin, maker of .NET tooling that can build apps for iOS, Android, and OS X, for an undisclosed sum. When Microsoft first launched .NET in the early 2000s, it promised a ...