An introduction to using Xamarin with C# for building cross-platform mobile apps. A fully featured and surprisingly pleasant alternative to Android Studio!

Xamarin has ported Android to C# in an effort to improve its own development tools and show that the OS doesn't have to be dependent on Java.

Xamarin is furthering its mission to make C# the mobile-development language of choice by allowing iOS coders to use Microsoft's Visual Studio.

This has lead to what they now call the XobotOS. Since Android uses Java heavily, this was no easy task, and Xamarin used automatic, machine-based translation of the Java code to C#.

A company called Xamarin has announced that it has ported the Java-based Android operating system over to C# and the .NET framework.

Xamarin, in an experiment, proves that .NET and C# could be used instead of Java for Android--to a better effect performance-wise--possibly enabling Google to sidestep patent issues.

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 ...