Android and UWP development using Xamarin forms – Course Site

This course will get you started with xamarin development in a very straightforward way – meaning it will not take a lot of your time. The course focuses on things that are commonly used, things that are essential in xamarin forms development. Explanations are provided in detail and after you are done with the course you will be familiar with xamarin forms enough to explore any additional features.

Xamarin is a Microsoft-owned San Francisco-based software company founded in May 2011 by the engineers that created Mono, Xamarin.Android (formerly Mono for Android) and Xamarin.iOS (formerly MonoTouch), which are cross-platform implementations of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) and Common Language Specifications (often called Microsoft .NET).

The Xamarin company produces an open-source software platform by the same name, and Xamarin 2.0 was released in February 2013. Xamarin extends the .NET developer platform with tools and libraries specifically for building apps for Android, iOS, tvOS, watchOS, macOS, and Windows primarily with C# in Visual Studio. Developers can re-use their existing C# code, and share significant code across device platforms. Several well-known companies including, and have used the platform to create their apps.

Xamarin integrates with Visual Studio, Microsoft’s IDE for the .NET Framework, and subsequently is available for use by macOS users through Visual Studio for Mac. Xamarin also released a component store to integrate backend systems, 3rd party libraries, cloud services, and UI controls directly into mobile apps.