Xamarin is now integrated with Microsoft's mega-popular Visual Studio, the software that developers use to write yet more software. What's more, that integration is totally free, even for developers using the free Visual Studio Community edition.
Business Insider - March 31, 2016
Developers got a dose of good news today at the company’s Build conference: Microsoft isn’t raising prices. In fact, just the opposite: It’s making Xamarin’s platform free for all users of Microsoft’s popular Visual Studio coding tool, including those who use the free “community” edition of the product.
Wired - March 31, 2016
Microsoft announced during today’s keynote that the core Xamarin tools are now available as part of the free Visual Studio Community edition, and Xamarin Studio for OS X is now available as a standalone community edition (MSDN subscribers will get it, too).
TechCrunch - March 31, 2016
This announcement means that every Visual Studio, from the free Community edition right up to the Enterprise edition, now has access to the Xamarin tooling so that developers can build applications for Android and iOS (though iOS development continues to need access to an OS X machine) using the .NET and C# tools they love.
Ars Technica - March 31, 2016
Microsoft has been branching out into other territories as mobile developers have flocked to Android and iOS. Microsoft has long partnered with Xamarin, but bringing the company in-house is a clear signal that the company is serious about cross-platform support.
Wired - February 24, 2016
It makes sense. In this competition, A.W.S. has an early lead and an outsize share of start-up developers. Google is vaunted for its low price and capabilities. Microsoft has the most corporate software in existing servers, and is trying to transfer those customers to the Azure cloud. To the extent Xamarin can help turn those into mobile apps, it helps with continuity.
The New York Times - February 24, 2016
The Xamarin acquisition gives Microsoft a stronger presence on devices beyond those that run Windows, including mobile devices, a crucial goal as Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella tries to enhance the company’s relevance to developers who have largely turned their attention to mobile platforms from Apple and Google, a division of Alphabet Inc
The Wall Street Journal - February 24, 2016
This acquisition will allow Microsoft to greatly improve its own set of a developer tools and help spur development of mobile and Universal apps for Windows 10 devices.
TechCrunch - February 24, 2016
Xamarin’s shtick is simple: Build an app once, and easily put it on iOS, Android, Windows, or whatever else with a minimum of gruntwork.
It means that when you load up a pretty fair number of the apps you use every day, from JetBlue to popular games like “Draw a Stickman” or “Bastion,” you’re actually loading up Xamarin, too.
Business Insider - December 18, 2015
The overall theme is clear: simplify the development experience and make life easier for developers who want to use all of Xamarin’s offerings.
TechCrunch - November 17, 2015
By buying RoboVM, Xamarin gets access to the tremendous Java developer market, which analyst firm IDC pegs at between 5 to 7 million programmers worldwide. It's the software development equivalent of flooring the gas pedal.
Business Insider - October 21, 2015
Now Xamarin has scored a big coup with the announcement of a partnership with an unlikely company: Oracle.
Business Insider - July 8, 2015
Xamarin, which provides a mobile development platform for enterprises, said it has partnered with Oracle in a move that gets it access to more companies. Oracle links up with Xamarin's developer community.
ZDNet - July 8, 2015
Xamarin’s Enterprise Mobility Management now has interoperability with IBM MobileFirst Protect to provide more comprehensive methods for securely delivering native iOS and Android apps. Developers write their apps in C#, and connect them to IBM MobileFirst’s data integration, notification, security, and analytics capabilities - all in C#, using IBM’s native libraries for iOS and Android.
App Developer Magazine - June 10, 2015
Xamarin and IBM today announced a new interoperability feature across the Xamarin cross-platform mobile development environment and IBM’s MobileFirst portfolio. It enables enterprise developers to build more secure mobile applications.
eWeek - May 27, 2015
In the past 12 months, Xamarin’s developer community has grown 98 percent and sales have more than doubled. Xamarin’s differentiation stems from its ability to build native and hybrid apps for iOS, Android, Mac and Windows using a single C# code base.
Forbes - April 29, 2015
Xamarin, the enterprise mobile development platform that makes it fast and easy to build, test and monitor apps, today announced it has reached 1 million unique developer downloads and achieved significant company growth in the last year.
BusinessWire - April 29, 2015
Now, students get free access to everything they need to become mobile app developers virtually overnight, creating native iOS and Android apps with Xamarin and Visual Studio.
ZDNet - April 7, 2015
The cross-platform developer tools service Xamarin today announced that it has hired Bryan Morris, the former VP of Finance at Ooyala and CFO of LiveRamp, as the first CFO in the company’s history.
TechCrunch - March 12, 2015
Xamarin, the mobile app development startup that's growing increasingly tight with Microsoft, has hired a longtime executive from the software giant to help take its business to the next level.
CRN - January 9, 2015
At the Connect() event in New York City, Xamarin extended their partnership with Microsoft and announced a new set of offers for developers. Xamarin enables cross-platform development.
Windows Central - November 13, 2014
Microsoft said it has worked with Xamarin to make it faster to install Xamarin in the coming Visual Studio release. Xamarin said it will add Visual Studio support in the free version of its product, called Xamarin Starter Edition, later this year.
CRN - November 12, 2014
Any student “enrolled in a degree or diploma-granting course of study” can get access to the entire Xamarin Indie program for free.
Computerworld - November 6, 2014
The growing popularity of smartphones has put pressure on IT departments to make enterprise systems available on mobile devices. What Xamarin lets them do is take advantage of C# know-how to build native applications for iOS, Android, Mac and Windows, and reuse code between them.
PCWorld - October 8, 2014
The highlights of the release are Xamarin’s own Android emulator, which is much faster than Google’s, the launch of Xamarin Insights, the company’s new app monitoring service, and an update to the Xamarin Test Cloud, which will significantly shorten test times and allow developers to see videos of how their apps run on various devices.
TechCrunch - October 8, 2014
Xamarin has announced the general availability of Test Cloud which offers over 1,000 real devices to help mobile developers test out apps.
App Developer Magazine - September 29, 2014
Xamarin is a fascinating vendor. Giving mobile developers the ability to quickly and easily create applications on iOS, Android, Mac and Windows devices in a fully native manner, but from a single code base, is kind of like the holy grail for developers.
Forbes - August 21, 2014
Mobile application developer Xamarin Inc . has nearly tripled its funding by taking another $54 million, which the company says it will use to make acquisitions and boost growth.
Dow Jones - August 21, 2014
Xamarin, the popular service for building cross-platform native applications, today announced that it has raised a $54 million Series C round led by a combination of new and existing investors. As far as we are aware, that’s the largest round ever raised by a mobile app development platform.
TechCrunch - August 21, 2014
Developer platform Xamarin, which powers apps like Rdio and Tom Hanks’ mega-popular typewriter app, today announced a massive $54.25 million to fuel its expansion into Europe.
VentureBeat - August 21, 2014
With this release, Xamarin goes from offering a useful, cross-platform C# technology solution to providing the best multi-platform, native mobile development solution, bar none.
Dr. Dobbs - May 28, 2014
Xamarin is striving to produce the best—and perhaps only—framework that can target the major mobile platforms while still not giving up the quality and performance expected of native apps [...] you'd be crazy to not use Xamarin 3.
Ars Technica - May 28, 2014
Smart developers will use a toolset like Xamarin to cut out the bulk of the development process and then build platform-specific application aspects on an individual basis.
Forbes - May 28, 2014
...you can also easily mix and match between using Xamarin.Forms and the native UI [APIs]. When the app is compiled, Xamarin will render the native code, and there is virtually no performance penalty for using this API abstraction layer.
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