Getting started with Xamarin

Xamarin is a San Francisco, California-based software company, which provides commercial software development tools, that leverage the Mono open source project in order to allow you to develop applications for Android, iOS, and Mac using C# and the .NET framework.

Xamarin brings a wide range of products to simplify the mobile application development in a cross-platform way. The following are some of the products offered by Xamarin:

• The Xamarin platform: Xamarin uses the open source implementation of the.NET framework called Mono. The Xamarin framework implementation includes its own compiler written in C# and the .NET libraries. The Xamarin platform includes the following products:

  • Xamarin.iOS: This is also known as MonoTouch. This is used for building native iOS applications using C# and .NET.

  • Xamarin.Android: This is also known as Mono for Android or formally known as MonoDroid. This is used for building native Android applications using C# and .NET.

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