Using Xamarin.Forms will decrease the amount of platform-specific code in your application compared to recreating your UI in each target platform. However, it won't eliminate it: You should assume ...

If you use Xamarin.Forms, the build process will generate a platform-specific UI for each of the iOS/Android/UWP projects. Using Xamarin.Forms will decrease the amount of platform-specific code in ...

In its continuing push towards making its tools available across platforms, Microsoft announced several integrations with the Xamarin development tools it acquired earlier this year.

Visual Studio users will receive access to the Xamarin toolset for free, while the Xamarin core is being open sourced and made part of .Net.

Launched two years ago, Xamarin says it already has 230,000 mobile developers using its software development tools, growing its developer community 300 percent in the last year alone, and adding ...