Xamarin 3 Announced

 Xamarin Designer for iOS

Allows you to design UIs quickly, add event handlers, auto-layout feature, and live previews of custom controls. Get instant look and feel of your app on the design surface. Xamarin Designer for iOS is integrated into Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio.

 

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2. Xamarin.Forms

Build native UIs for iOS, Android and Windows Phone from a single, shared C# codebase with this new library. Native user interfaces can be built using over more than 40 cross-platform controls and layouts.

 

Read more about Xamarin.Forms here >>

3. Major IDE enhancements

• New welcome screen, new icons, improved support for retina display, and many more.
• iOS and Android extensions combined into a single Visual Studio extension which improves the build and debugging experience.
• Take advantage of the many NuGet packages which are now shipping with Xamarin 3.
• Integrated .NET Base Class Libraries (BCL)
• Build iOS and Android apps using the increasingly-popular F# functional programming language.

4. Improved code sharing

 

• Xamarin developers can now share code across in either Xamarin Studio or Visual Studio.
• Xamarin 3 can both produce and consume PCLs from both Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio.

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