11 Facts About Xamarin Studio

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Xamarin Studio is a Microsoft-owned San Francisco-based software company founded in May 2011 by the engineers that created Mono, Xamarin Studio.

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Name Xamarin comes from the name of the Tamarin monkey, replacing the leading T with an X This is in line with the naming theme used ever since Ximian was started.

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3.

The release included two main components: Xamarin Studio, a re-branding of its open-source IDE Monodevelop; and integration with Visual Studio, Microsoft's IDE for the.

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4.

NET Framework, allowing Visual Xamarin Studio to be used for creating applications for Android, iOS and Windows.

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5.

Xamarin Studio company produces an open source software platform by the same name, and Xamarin Studio 2.

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6.

Xamarin Studio released a component store to integrate backend systems, 3rd party libraries, cloud services and UI controls directly into mobile apps.

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7.

Xamarin supplies add-ins to Microsoft Visual Studio that allows developers to build Android, iOS, and Windows apps within the IDE using code completion and IntelliSense.

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8.

Xamarin for Visual Studio has extensions that provide support for the building, deploying, and debugging of apps on a simulator or a device.

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At the time of its release in February 2013, Xamarin Studio was a standalone IDE for mobile app development on Windows and macOS, as part of Xamarin 2.

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10.

On Windows Xamarin Studio is deprecated and was replaced with Xamarin for Visual Studio.

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On macOS Xamarin Studio is still in development, but was rebranded in 2016 as Visual Studio for Mac.

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