Now you can just click that download button, and get the new integration for 2015!

Launching any of those two templates will create a project that is like an introduction to the product and links to download it (similar to what the Azure templates do when you don’t have Azure SDK installed): The experience basically is that now in VS 2015 you have two new templates for Android and iOS:

That’s borne out by the upcoming release of Visual Studio, which will make it easier to add Xamarin tools to support iOS and Android development alongside Windows apps.”Īs a testament of our close collaboration with Microsoft, we shipped same-day support for Android Native C++ projects in VS 2015, as well as deep integration with Microsoft’s Hyper-V based Android Emulator. “We’re going to continue partnering deeply with Xamarin,” Somasegar says. “This doesn’t mean the work on cross-platform client-side. Microsoft is working on the initiative with the Mono community and the startup Xamarin, which de Icaza co-founded.” NET and make it possible to use Microsoft’s developer technologies to make software for - you guessed it - Mac, Linux, Android and iOS. Somasegar made the comments in an interview discussing the company’s plan to open-source. “Soma” Somasegar, the corporate vice president in charge of Microsoft’s Developer Division. “Miguel is still the man!” said an enthusiastic S. NET turnaround, Microsoft wants to create ‘one big family’ with open-source community “We are working very closely with the Xamarin guys on this.” “We will announce this and then take the next few months working with the Mono community,” Somasegar told me.

“Unsurprisingly, the company plans to work with the Xamarin-sponsored Mono community, which already produces a cross-platform open source. By now you probably got the blurb of last week’s Microsoft announcements:

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