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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Xamarin Inc. this morning announced a third round of funding from several investors -- some current, some new -- that will go toward expanding the company's mobile application development tool ...

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 ...

Unless you’ve been living on a planet far, far, away from the galactic trade routes, you know there are only two practical choices of programming languages — Java and Objective-C — for developing ...

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 ...

One of the difficulties in building a cross-platform mobile app is testing it against a battery of potential hardware configurations users might try to run it on. That’s why Xamarin is launching a new ...