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Once Xamarin is installed you can see the Xamarin Templates inside the Project Menu. To Install Xamarin with Visual Studio, please follow the below steps. Launch the Visual Studio 2015 Installer and after some initialization, you should see the below screen. Please select “Customs” the type of installation.
At //build 2016 conference, Microsoft announced to include Xamarin into their existing offers and make the cross-platform solution free for everyone. Now as Xamarin is part of Visual Studio 2015, some things are changing for developers so let's take a look at what how the Xamarin ecosystem will transform.
IOS and Xamarin. Android are C# wrappers for the native libraries, so you're basically writing a native app but in C# and are able to share code between platforms using a portable class library or a . net standard library. Also it's totally free and backed by Microsoft.
Visual Studio for Mac has first-class support for Xamarin development on macOS, with everything you need to build, design, and test stunning, high-performance apps.
Updated March 31st, 2016:
We have announced that Visual Studio now includes Xamarin at no extra cost, including Community Edition, which is free for individual developers, open source projects, academic research, education, and small professional teams. There is no size restriction on the Community Edition and offers the same features as the Pro & Enterprise editions. Read more about the update here: https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-for-all/
Be sure to browse the store on how to download and get started: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing/ and there is a nice FAQ section: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/support/
Yes, Xamarin is now free in Visual Studio
I asked the same question to Xamarin support team, they replied with following:
You can develop an app with Xamarin for commercial usage - there is no extra charge! We only require you to comply with Visual Studio's licensing terms,
which means that in companies of less than 250 employees with less than $1million USD annual revenue, you may use Visual Studio completely free (including Xamarin) for up to 5 developers.
However after you pass those barriers, you would need a Visual Studio license (which includes Xamarin).
Refer the screenshot below.
Visual Studio 2015 does include Xamarin Starter edition https://xamarin.com/starter
Xamarin Starter is free and allows developers to build and publish simple apps with the following limitations:
Xamarin Starter installs automatically with Visual Studio 2015, and works with VS 2012, 2013, and 2015 (including Community Editions). When your app outgrows Starter, you will be offered the opportunity to upgrade to a paid subscription, which you can learn more about here: https://store.xamarin.com/
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