Installing Xamarin and other required components
Xamarin can be installed during custom Visual Studio installation. For now, let's assume that Xamarin has not been installed and that you need to do that now, after you have installed Visual Studio.
Getting ready
One thing to be aware of if you want to target iOS is that you will need to use a Mac to build your iOS applications.
How to do it…
- In the Control Panel, click on Programs and Features. Right-click on your Visual Studio installation and click on Change:
- This will display the Visual Studio installer for you. Here you can modify your current Visual Studio installation by adding and removing components at will. Notice that we have selected C#/.NET (Xamarin v4.0.3) and HTML/JavaScript (Apache Cordova) Update 8.1 to install. If you have no interest in using Xamarin, then leave off the Xamarin component and just keep the Apache Cordova option selected. This will still allow you to create Android applications using Apache Cordova...