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

In another nod to the winners of the mobile market share battle — Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS — Microsoft is improving its signature Visual Studio IDE with more functionality for ...

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.

Xamarin partnerships with Microsoft to let developers build iOS and Android applications in Visual Studio. Xamarin University teaches developers how to do that.

Total scores were: Xcode - 22; Visual Studio - 21; and Android Studio - 13. "Apple's Xcode beats Android on all measures on which it was evaluated," Strategy Analytics said in a news release.

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.

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.

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

Xamarin has integrated its cross-platform development tools with Microsoft’s Visual Studio Community 2013, allowing developers to build native Android and iOS apps for free. The integration ...

The Visual Studio Emulator for Android is a tool within the full Visual Studio 2015 suite, which Microsoft brought to Mac users for the first time back in April.

In addition to the Visual Studio extension, Icenium has a Windows-based tool called Graphite, and a completely browser-based version called Mist. Once compiled, the app is pushed out to the ...