Microsoft’s Visual Studio Emulator for Android was launched only last November. It was the tech company’s attempt at getting developers working on Android apps from their own platform, but it ...

In the third beta release of Visual Studio 2017 15.7, which is now available for download, Microsoft has cut the time it takes to start the debugging process. Now, while an Android app is being ...

Microsoft’s accommodations for iOS and Android in “15” are not its first, however. The company previously has offered capabilities for Android and iOS in Visual Studio.

In Android, this is done by requesting permissions required in the application's AndroidManifest.xml file. Mono for Android simplifies the creation of this file, allowing you to choose permissions ...

Visual Studio Emulator for Android is a tool that allows Android developers to test and debug their apps from the desktop OS of their choosing. The software arrived on Windows last year, and is ...

When the ArrayAdapter is created, one of the built-in Android layouts is used. In this case, I'm using the SimpleListItem1 layout. Thankfully, Visual Studio’s intelliSense support provides access to ...

“As part of Visual Studio 2015, developers now get access to the Visual Studio Emulator for Android, a high-performance x86-based emulator for the Android platform that supports a variety of ...

Xamarin has been bringing .NET to iOS and Android developers for a number of years, including enabling iOS development from within Visual Studio. Microsoft, of course, has been doing the same for ...