However, Xamarin Studio doesn't currently support building UWP apps, so for the remainder of this article I'll focus on Visual Studio. To get started building a UWP app using Xamarin.Forms (XForms), I ...

Xamarin also supports development on OS X using Xamarin Studio. This too is now available for free as a community edition for small teams, and is included in MSDN Subscriptions.

Microsoft this week released a third preview of the iOS Simulator for Xamarin on Visual Studio. The feature - announced at Build 2016 - allows developers to preview iOS apps on Windows.

Plus, in conjunction with Xamarin's C# compilers, Visual Studio 2015 developers are now capable of building native iOS, Android, and Windows apps over a single, shared codebase.

Xamarin, which Microsoft bought last month, is now a free part of Visual Studio. Now .NET and C# developers can make iOS, Android, and Windows apps all at once, using the free Community version of ...