Along with all the goodies available to coders in the brand-new Visual Studio 2019 GA release are some improvements to the mobile development experience with Xamarin tooling. The updates focus on ...

Xamarin mobile developers using Visual Studio gained some functionality common to other IDEs as XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms was introduced with the new Visual Studio 2019 v16.4 release.

From the ebook: Visual Studio 2019 became generally on April 3rd, bringing with it a slew of new features aimed at making developers more productive.

That includes Visual Studio Enterprise, Professional and even free Community Edition users. For Mac Users, Xamarin is making a free app available.

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 has released Visual Studio 2019 16.4, the newest version of its full integrated developer environment (IDE) that was launched in April.

Microsoft, which acquired mobile app development startup Xamarin last month, is now making its technology available for free to developers in the Visual Studio toolkit.

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.

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.