Chapter 2. Hello, Platforms!
If you are familiar with developing applications using Visual Studio on Windows, then using Xamarin Studio should be very straightforward. Xamarin uses the same concept of a solution containing one or more projects, and it has created several new project types for iOS and Android applications. There are also several project templates to jump-start your development of common applications.
Xamarin Studio supports several out-of-the-box project types, including standard .NET
class libraries and console applications. You cannot natively develop Windows applications on a Mac with Xamarin Studio, but you can certainly develop the shared code portion of your application in Xamarin Studio. We'll focus on sharing code in the ...
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