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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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, 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 ...

The mobile app development market is growing and rapidly evolving. Over 80 percent of the companies Lopez Research interviewed are building a strategy for scaling application development. Most ...

Xamarin, the cross-platform mobile app development company that's now a Microsoft unit, updated the tooling in its standalone IDE and its Visual Studio counterpart, along with platform-specific SDKs.

Microsoft has agreed to acquire Xamarin, a platform provider for mobile app development. Longtime partners, Microsoft has built Xamarin integration into Visual Studio, Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and ...

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 ...

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 ...