Xamarin is furthering its mission to make C# the mobile-development language of choice by allowing iOS coders to use Microsoft's Visual Studio.

Xamarin, the service that helps developers write cross-platform apps in C# for iOS, Android, OS X and Windows, launched version 2.0 of its platform today.

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 ...

Xamarin, which currently serves more than 600,000 developers, lets .NET programmers create new apps for Android and iOS using C#, without learning a new language.

New additions include the Mac agent for native iOS app development within the Visual Studio IDE, as well as a beta of Xamarin Insights and updates to Xamarin Forms and Xamarin Test Cloud.

Xamarin 2.0 will help us build even better apps, faster.” With the massive rise in mobile devices and apps, cross platform development tools are enjoying a golden age.

The iOS and Android variants are called Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android, respectively. There's also a Xamarin.Mac for producing apps for the Mac App Store.

Microsoft has released a new tool called Xamarin Live Player that lets PC users test and debug iOS apps without using a Mac. Submitting apps to the App Store still requires Xcode which only runs ...

Microsoft published guidance for iOS mobile developers using Xamarin.Forms to avoid potential App Store rejection caused by the deprecation of Apple's UIWebView component.

Microsoft and cross-platform mobile-app development vendor Xamarin are tightening their technical and marketing ties under a new partnership deal.