Visual Studio is the tour de force of integrated development environments (IDEs). There is no doubt about that. You, as a developer, are able to be as versatile as you like by creating applications for a wide range of platforms. One of these platforms is mobile development. Developers are starting to create mobile applications, but don't want to use a different IDE. With Visual Studio, you don't have to. It will allow you to create Android and (now with Xamarin) iOS and Mac applications too.
This chapter will, therefore, take a look at the following concepts:
- Installing Xamarin and other required components on your Windows PC and Mac
- Creating a mobile application using Apache Cordova
- Creating an iOS application using Xamarin.Forms and Visual Studio for Mac