Mono splits from Novell/Attachmate to form basis of new company
Mono is an open source implementation of .NET, formerly sponsored by Novell, and its future following Novell’s acquisition by Attachmate has been the subject of speculation. Today Mono leader Miguel de...
View ArticleThe strategy behind Mono has shifted: ten years of open source .NET
Yesterday, SUSE and Xamarin announced, in effect, the transfer of all things Mono to Xamarin. The agreement grants Xamarin a broad, perpetual license to all intellectual property covering Mono,...
View ArticleXamarin brings C# to development of apps for the Mac App Store
Xamarin has released Xamarin Mac which adds Mac support to the existing iOS and Android compilers from the company: MonoTouch: apps for iPhone and iPad using the MonoDevelop IDE on the Mac Mono for...
View ArticleXamarin 2.0 and Xamarin Studio announced, build for OSX, iOS and Android with C#
Xamarin has announced significant updates to its developer platform. Xamarin is the company formed around 18 months ago, when Novell discontinued its investment in Mono, a cross-platform implementation...
View ArticleXamarin vs Titanium vs FireMonkey: should cross-platform tools abstract the GUI?
Cross-platform development is a big deal, and will continue to be so until a day comes when everyone uses the same platform. Android? HTML? WebKit? iOS? Windows? Maybe one day, but for now the world is...
View ArticleXamarin acquires LessPainful, announces Test Cloud for mobile apps
Xamarin, a company which provides tools for cross-platform development in C#, has announced its acquisition of LessPainful and the creation of cloud-based testing for mobile apps based on LessPainful’s...
View ArticleWhat does Xamarin’s success say about open source versus proprietary? Miguel...
Yesterday Xamarin, which offers tools for targeting iOS, Android and Mac with C#, announced a partnership with Microsoft, an announcement which I wrote up on The Register. It drew a few comments,...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 update 1: avoid the RC if you use C++
Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2013 Update 1 RC which I installed for a look. It has a “go-live” license, which means you can use it in production, and when the final version comes out you will...
View ArticleMicrosoft Build Sessions published: Windows Phone XAML and HTML/JS apps, new...
Developing for Windows Phone is now closer to developing for the Windows 8 runtime, according to information from Microsoft’s Build sessions, just published. Build is Microsoft’s developer conference...
View ArticleMicrosoft Build goes nuts over Xamarin’s C# and .NET for iOS and Android
Xamarin’s Miguel de Icaza was booked for a standard session room at Build, Microsoft’s developer conference in San Francisco, but the session was moved to the keynote room because of demand. I am not...
View ArticleHands on with Xamarin 3.0: a cross-platform breakthrough for Visual Studio
Today Xamarin announced version 3.0 of its cross-platform mobile development tools, which let you target Android and iOS with C# and .NET. I have been trying a late beta preview. In order to use...
View ArticleXamarin 3.0 brings iOS visual design to Visual Studio, cross-platform XAML,...
Xamarin has announced the third version of its cross-platform tools, which use C# and .NET to target multiple platforms, including iOS, Android and Mac OS X. Xamarin 3.0 is a big release. In summary:...
View ArticleApple’s Swift programming language: easy coding for OS X and iOS at last?
Apple has announced a new programming language, called Swift. (There was already a language called Swift, used for parallel scripting, but Apple links to the other Swift in case you land on the wrong...
View ArticleXamarin announces large round of funding, plans international expansion
It is a case of “right time, right place” for Xamarin, as it scoops up Windows developers who need either to transition to iOS and Android, or to add mobile support to existing applications. You can...
View ArticleTesting mobile apps: Xamarin goes live with Test Cloud for iOS and Android...
Testing a mobile app is challenging, thanks to operating system fragmentation combined with diversity of hardware. In April 2013 Xamarin acquired a company called LessPainful, specialists in functional...
View ArticleXamarin Evolve: developers enjoy the buzz around cross-platform coding with C#
“It’s like a Microsoft developer event back when they were good,” one exhibitor here at Xamarin Evolve in Atlanta told me, and I do see what he means. There is plenty of buzz, since Xamarin is just...
View ArticleXamarin Challenge shows bumps in Microsoft’s path to cross-platform mobile
Microsoft ran a Xamarin Challenge over on Paul Thurrott’s site. The idea was to demo how to build a cross-platform mobile app with Microsoft’s cross-platform mobile toolkit. The challenge was in three...
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Using the Xamarin WebView for programmatic display of HTML content
Xamarin Forms is a key framework for C# and .NET developers since it lets you target Android, iOS and to some extent Windows (UWP and therefore Windows 10 only) with maximum code reuse. I have a...
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