Course BUILD 2016 is leaving very important news for Windows users, something that has not happened for years. If at the beginning of the event we opened with the news of the integration of Ubuntu in Windows 10, now we find out that Visual Studio users will have full access to Xamarin tools.
Xamarin is a young company that recently bought Microsoft and they promise to create cross-platform applications from a single code, something interesting for transfer apps from Windows Phone to Android or iOS. This same purchase is what made Microsoft's individual projects for the transfer of apps stop and I think it was not for less.
According to the news, Visual Studio users will have access to Xamarin tools through IDE plugins, so the developer will only have to write the app in C # and then through the add-ins create a code to save java or Objective-C relationsLet's go to the problems that every developer has when moving from one ecosystem to another.
Xamarin will be free for C # users
Unfortunately we do not know all the details of these tools, that is, the manufacturing process, which functions it supports and which does not, etc ... But we do know that Xamarin works and will be free for Visual Studio users.
Personally, I think this is great news that will make it possible for many apps to be present in any ecosystem, but now it is necessary to convince developers of that, that is, to use these tools and create apps for Windows Phone, iOS and Android, something that It is the most expensive and for which I think it will not be successful. The developer needs more attractive to do that extra work and although Microsoft is on the right track I think it is not enough What do you think?