Xamarin is, at the same time, the name of a company that Microsoft acquired in February 2016 and the name of a suite of products and services Microsoft offers to developers to build native mobile applications for Android, iOS, and the Universal Windows Platform using C# and the Microsoft developer tools.
This chapter introduces Xamarin by discussing how it fits into the mobile-first , cloud-first vision at Microsoft and by listing the available products and services, with a brief explanation of what you can do with each.
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