Is Xamarin free in Visual Studio 2015?

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 … Read more

What is the difference between Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin Native? [closed]

Xamarin.Forms Pros Create one UI for all platforms Use basic components that are available on all platforms (like Buttons, Textfields, Spinners etc.) No need to learn all the native UI frameworks Fast cross platform development process Custom native renderers give you the ability to adjust the appearance and feeling of controls Cons It’s still a … Read more

Add bottom border line to UI TextField view in SwiftUI / Swift / Objective-C / Xamarin

I am creating custom textField to make it reusable component for SwiftUI SwiftUI struct CustomTextField: View { var placeHolder: String @Binding var value: String var lineColor: Color var width: CGFloat var body: some View { VStack { TextField(self.placeHolder, text: $value) .padding() .font(.title) Rectangle().frame(height: self.width) .padding(.horizontal, 20).foregroundColor(self.lineColor) } } } Usage: @Binding var userName: String @Binding … Read more

What is the difference between Xamarin.Form’s LayoutOptions, especially Fill and Expand?

Short answer Start, Center, End and Fill define the view’s alignment within its space. Expand defines whether it occupies more space if available. Theory The structure LayoutOptions controls two distinct behaviors: Alignment: How is the view aligned within the parent view? Start: For vertical alignment the view is moved to the top. For horizontal alignment … Read more

Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE] even if app appears to not be installed

I’ve seen this several times. Usually, it’s due to having a signed release version on my phone, then trying to deploy the debug version on top. It gets stuck in an invalid state where it’s not fully uninstalled. The solution that works for me is to open a command prompt and type: adb uninstall my.package.id … Read more

Xamarin 2.0 vs Appcelerator Titanium vs PhoneGap [duplicate]

Overview As reported by Tim Anderson Cross-platform development is a big deal, and will continue to be so until a day comes when everyone uses the same platform. Android? HTML? WebKit? iOS? Windows? Xamarin? Titanum? PhoneGap? Corona? ecc. Sometimes I hear it said that there are essentially two approaches to cross-platform mobile apps. You can … Read more

What’s the difference between .NET Core, .NET Framework, and Xamarin?

You should use .NET Core, instead of .NET Framework or Xamarin, in the following 6 typical scenarios according to the documentation here. 1. Cross-Platform needs Clearly, if your goal is to have an application (web/service) that should be able to run across platforms (Windows, Linux and MacOS), the best choice in the .NET ecosystem is … Read more