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Xamarin Cross-Platform App Maker Now Free

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Xamarin is a cross-platform (iOS, Android, & Windows) mobile application development suite using C#; it runs on both Windows and OSX.

Microsoft bought Xamarin in February and have made it free for the majority of it's users and open sourced some major components. Xamarin used to run anywhere from $70 as a student through to $1000+ as a business.

From the blog -
"Xamarin will be in every edition of Visual Studio, including the widely-available Visual Studio Community Edition, which is free for individual developers, open source projects, academic research, education, and small professional teams. Develop and publish native apps for iOS and Android with C# or F# from directly within Visual Studio with no limits on app size.

For developers on the Mac, Xamarin Studio is now available as a benefit of your Visual Studio Professional or Enterprise subscription. Developers can use the newly-created Xamarin Studio Community Edition for free."

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  • +11

    finally it's free xD

  • +5

    Was waiting for this since Microsoft acquired Xamarin in late Feb!

  • +1

    That's amazing news!! Excited.

    • +1

      /gif Excited

    • -1

      /gif happy

  • -1

    /gif gif

    • /giffy wipe wipe

  • Does it mean I can use it on a Windows PC instead of buying an Mac for Swift?

    • /gif Windows

    • +1

      You still need a mac if you want to compile to iOS.

      • The big advantage is that you can develop on a Windows PC. When you're ready to release to the Apple App store, you only need the least expensive Mac (that supports Xcode and Lion and an Intel CPU) to compile to iOS. You could get it second hand, or before those royalty checks have come in, beg borrow or steal time on someone else's computer.

  • /gif bargain

  • This is a product to watch.

    /gif free microsoft ie

  • Will give this a crack, and looking to develop own apps. Just got into buildfire and it's doing the job thus far (welcome any comments from those who have used it).

  • +1

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  • +2

    Also mono is now re-licenced as MIT:

    http://www.mono-project.com/news/2016/03/31/mono-relicensed-…

    Plus all their proprietary extensions will be opened sourced as well.

  • As C# developer I wanted to learn to develop for iOS, but couldn't find the courage (and the time) to do so. Also I just started learning F#.

    Well, here we go!

  • I've used Xamarin to develop an Android app, it works well.

    • Which app?

      • +1

        A booking app - for a university project.

  • So I download the installer and will install into Visual Studio Professional?

    • +1

      Community Edition

  • Interesting that a multi-platform development suite wouldn't support Linux after so many years.

  • Are there any android development software with the visual basic languange?

    • +1

      There is this one. It's not free, but for dev software (which hasn't been acquired by MS), it's fairly cheap:

      https://www.b4x.com/b4a.html

  • /gif developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers

    • +1

      Dance, monkey boy! Dance!

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