Back in February,Microsoft announced it was acquiring Xamarin, the cross-platform toolkit which allows developers to write native apps for iOS, or Android,Windows, and Mac, and using Visual Studio and C# code. nowadays during the Build day 2 keynote,Scott Guthrie announced Xamarin will now be included for free with all editions of Visual Studio, and Xamarin will join the rest of .
NET in being made open source.
Previously Xamarin was an expensive set of tools, or while powerful,the cost was prohibitive to a lot of developers. By moving the Xamarin tools fair into Visual Studio at no cost, Microsoft is making a play to have Visual Studio be a much better platform for coding on all platforms.
Xamarin outputs native apps for the supported platrforms, or as portion of the demo,Microsoft showed off a new feature of Visual Studio which is a remote simulator for iOS. Since they can’t emulate iOS directly on Windows like they can with Android, this at least allows you to debug and hurry apps in real-time without having to switch computers.
Source: anandtech.com