April 7, 2016 at 15:08

Xamarin for everyone! And other announcements on the topic with Build 2016



    Hello!

    In this article, we present the long-awaited news and announcements about Xamarin from the last Build 2016 conference .

    As you may recall, in previous publications we already told you about Xamarin joining Microsoft. This momentous event was also highlighted at the opening of the annual Microsoft developer conference. If you missed Scott Guthrie's talk about the future of Visual Studio and Xamarin, the entry is available here .

    So, we will go through the main announcements and move on to the details:

    • Microsoft has made Xamarin cross-platform development tools available free of charge to all editions of Visual Studio , from the free community distributed to the most advanced product configuration in the Enterprise version.
    • Opening the Xamarin core - the Xamarin SDK as an open source project.
    • Convenient use of Xamarin services (Test Cloud, XamarinU, etc.) when building DevOps processes for developing mobile applications on the Microsoft platform.

    You can start using Xamarin now:

    For Visual Studio 2015 or Visual Studio 2013, just download the Xamarin installer for Windows . If this is your first time installing Visual Studio 2015, download the latest version of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 , which already includes Xamarin tools. Similarly, when you install Visual Studio “15” Preview , Xamarin tools will become available automatically.



    Details of announcements for Xamarin at Build 2016

    Xamarin in Open Source

    In addition to news about the open Xamarin SDK (runtime, libraries and command line tools), at the Build 2016 conference it was announced that the Mono project, which is the core of the Xamarin tools that has already been transferred to the .NET Foundation, is now re-released under the open licensed by MIT. We look forward to active cooperation with partners and community participation in the development of these projects.

    Finally, we announced that Unity, JetBrains, and Red Hat will join the .NET Foundation Technical Steering Group. What is a momentous moment for the entire .NET community.

    Together with Visual Studio, Xamarin technologies and tools are provided for free.

    This means that the free edition of Visual Studio CommunityNow includes a fully functional version of Xamarin tools so that developers can create cross-platform Android and iOS applications right in their favorite development environment. Paid editions of Visual Studio Professional and Enterprise are also provided with Xamarin tools at no additional cost.

    Xamarin Advanced Features in Visual Studio Enterprise

    New Visual Studio Enterprise subscribers get access to Xamarin’s advanced enterprise features and 25% discount on Xamarin Test Cloud at no additional cost to Xamarin.

    Xamarin Test Cloud tools also remain available as a standalone offer .

    Xamarin Studio Community and Visual Studio Subscriptions

    Xamarin Studio is a full-featured IDE that allows you to develop iOS, Android and Mac applications on the OS X operating system. We announced the creation of a community edition of the Xamarin Studio Community tool on Mac and the inclusion of Xamarin Studio Professional and Enterprise editions in subscriptions of paid versions of Visual Studio. Xamarin Studio Community is available for use under a license similar to Visual Studio Community. Xamarin Studio Community includes integrated native designers for iOS and Android, syntax highlighting for C # and F #, code navigation and refactoring. Download Xamarin Studio Community at the link .

    Visual Studio Professional and Enterprise subscribers, along with other subscription offers, can download and use Xamarin Studio for Mac's Professional and Enterprise editions on their MSDN portals or Visual Studio cloud subscription .

    Learn more about the differences in features on the Visual Studio Suggestion Comparison Page.

    Offers Xamarin University

    Xamarin University provides online training for mobile developers on Xamarin. Currently, Visual Studio Dev Essentials, a free offers program for developers, provides limited access to the Xamarin University course set. We announced the expansion of the proposed courses for program participants.

    Additionally, we offer more tutorials through subscriptions with Visual Studio Enterprise and Visual Studio Professional. These courses help mobile developers improve their existing skills to create better cross-platform applications.

    If you are a member of the Visual Studio Dev Essentials program or have a cloud subscription with Visual Studio, to access Xamarin University you can go through and, by logging in, access the link . If you are the owner of an MSDN subscription, you need to go to the portal .

    Xamarin University materials also remain available as a standalone offer.

    Xamarin Insights and HockeyApp

    The Xamarin Insights team and the Microsoft HockeyApp team will work together to provide an industry-leading solution for crash reporting, application distribution, and analytics. The combined team will focus on improving HockeyApp and continue to work on the features that developers are used to with Xamarin Insights and HockeyApp. Details on the link on the HockeyApp blog .

    That's all for today!

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