Guthrie also reminds us that Microsoft actually has a longstanding partnership with Xamarin and has jointly built Xamarin integration into Visual Studio, Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and the Enterprise Mobility Suite. This enables developers to easily share common app code across their iOS, Android and Windows apps while still delivering fully native experiences for each of the platforms.” NET to build mobile apps, and to use C# to write to the full set of native APIs and mobile capabilities provided by each device platform.
Xamarin’s approach enables developers to take advantage of the productivity and power of. The official statement from Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie in his role as executive vice president of cloud and enterprise group is as follows, “In conjunction with Visual Studio, Xamarin provides a rich mobile development offering that enables developers to build mobile apps using C# and deliver fully native mobile app experiences to all major devices – including iOS, Android, and Windows.
