Microsoft is in the final stages of negotiations that could lead to either an acquisition or major investment in Xamarin, a mobile startup whose tools make it possible to code iOS and Android apps ...

There are two schools of thought when it comes to mobile application development. The first says that only by developing on the native mobile platforms can an application be created which leverages ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft today announced plans to acquire Xamarin, a San Francisco-based startup that lets developers build applications for a variety of different platforms using Microsoft’s C# programming language ...

Xamarin has long been one of the most popular tools for building cross-platform mobile applications and today, the company is taking a major step forward by launching version 3.0 of its service. The ...

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 ...

One of the difficulties in building a cross-platform mobile app is testing it against a battery of potential hardware configurations users might try to run it on. That’s why Xamarin is launching a new ...