The next version of Android, Android M, will include native visual voicemail support in the dialer, rather than requiring each carrier to build its own visual voicemail app.

Support for Android will be a part of Visual Studio 2015, available now as a Preview release (download link). The toolchain supports the Clang compiler and LLVM optimizations.

Here’s an interesting one. Microsoft has created a Visual Studio Emulator for Android, and it’s a free download, which can be used separately from Visual Studio itself.

Visual Studio 2015 goes even more cross-platform with Clang, Android emulator The next version of Visual Studio will be able to target more platforms than ever.

Visual Studio 2015 launches, with Android, iOS, and even Apple Watch support .NET 4.6 is also out now.

A skunkworks project by Xamarin, the developers of Mono for Android and Mono Touch, machine-translated millions of lines of Java in Android to C#.

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 will include enhancements that allow Android developers to test their apps in less time.

New research from Strategy Analytics compared the mobile developer environments from Apple, Google and Microsoft, finding that Android Studio ranks far behind the Xcode and Visual Studio IDEs.