The talk of the tech world is now
circling round the two companies Microsoft and Xamarin. It is all about the new
tie-up between the two. To make things easier for developers, Xamarin and
Microsoft are moving up to the integration work to create apps for iOS as well
as Android with the help of C#. The two companies announced on 13th
of November that there is a marketing collaboration between both the companies
and the sales is going tighter right now.
Xamarin is being supported as an
add-in by Visual Studio. The new partnership between Xamarin and Microsoft will
further lead to better changes, and the integration will be moving on to a
better level. The new release by Xamarin is a full integration with the
Portable class library projects of Microsoft in IOS as well as Android Apps.
The above PCL support was developed with the help of Microsoft.
The course that is recently launched
by Microsoft and Xamarin known as Xamarin University training course is about
to be given free for the subscribers of MSDN. This will be commencing from
January 2014. The subscribers of MSDN will be availing this new trial as well
as paid options for the subscribers of Xamarin. This will be provided for teams
as well as individuals according to the deal.
As per the information provided by
Xamarin’s CEO and cofounder Nat Friedman, it has around 400,000 developers to
their credit. Each day, this number is increased with an addition of 1000
developers. It is also a known fact that the majority of applications that are
developed with the help of Xamarin are used as business or enterprise
applications.
For many years, Xamarin founders were
also a part of the Microsoft’s program, Visual Studio Industry Partner,
Microsoft authorities had kept themselves away from Xamarin. The reason to this
attitude is that Microsoft was not sure whether Xamarin needed an extended
support for Visual studio, especially for the platforms that were non-Microsoft.
When the restrictions were removed by Microsoft, Xamarin was able to extend Visual
studio for the purpose of supporting non-Microsoft platforms.
Xamarin has made use of C# as the
language used for the purpose of mobile development. This language is one of
the easiest languages used by mobile developers of all times for the purpose of
developing applications for platforms like Android, iOS and Windows 8.
According to Freidman, Xamarin has
been working independently. But these days, they are in partnership with
Microsoft, and the partnership is now stronger than ever. The terms of the deal
are yet to be disclosed. As per the information, there was little exchange of
money between these two companies.
As per Freidman, the deal is a
beginning of the strong partnership with the Titan Microsoft. He also stated
that this partnership can turn out to be a path full of new opportunities for
the company Xamarin. This could also provide support for cross platform
development for other major products of Microsoft like SharePoint and Office.
Carrie miller is an employee of Zealous System which specializing in web
application development services. He spends his leisure time by writing
on topics based on improving business through technology, thus making your work
easier. The tie-up between Microsoft and Xamarin is described in this article.