

Now I was thinking what to do, I don’t want to create the boring "Hello World!" demo so what I will be developing is a simple calculator which acts like a normal desk calculator. Like what I said above we will be using the free version so we will make this simple project by using Xamarin Studio. For now lets see what the free stuff can offer, I did a simple project which I will be discussing below and it looks very promising, I love it. It includes the Xamarin Studio which is great start for those who want to try out creating their first apps for Android, they also offer a Business license which lets you develop in Visual Studio so you can use that rich experience similar to developing Web Apps or Windows Apps, then they have this Enterprise which contains everything. Xamarin is offered in different licenses from free to enterprise levels but for not I will be using the starter version which is the free version. A couple of years after that I attended TechEd NZ 2013 and was introduced to this wonderful platform called Xamarin. I tried developing before in Android but I did not like the experience in using the available IDE, as its slow and resource hungry, so I gave up. If you love C# and want to create an Android application using that language then you have to thank Xamarin as they created this great Cross Platform development tool which enables developers to develop iOS and Android apps in C# language.
