I am planing to develop the cross platform mobile application in iOS and android in Xamarin.
I have question related to pricing.
My development IDE will be Xamrine studio in mac system
I have few Question : https://store.xamarin.com/
Question 1 ) Can I develop my application by using Xamarin Studio Community FREE
Question 2) Xamarin Studio Community FREE is only for 30 Days or it is for Life Time?
Question 1 ) Can I develop my application by using Xamarin Studio Community FREE
Answer : Yes ,you can develop mobile application using Xamarin Studio Community Edition.
Question 2) Xamarin Studio Community FREE is only for 30 Days or it is for Life Time ?
Answer:Its free(i.e. its not 30 day trial version) for Students, open-source projects,and non-enterprise up to 5 users.
You have to carefully read the License Conditions for VS Community.
1.1 Says, you can use it, if you are an individual.
1.2 Provides the rules that apply to organizations, which includes some rescrictions.
Xamarin is free as of March 2015 and you can use it for free together with VS Community or Xamarin Studio, if the above conditions apply to you.
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I have installed Xamarin studio for mac today.
I have seen an ad for Visual Studio for Mac preview.
I do not understand what are the difference between those 2 products...
Thanks
Like #SushiHangover told, Xamarin Studio will be replaced by Visual Studio.
If you access the xamarin's page today (https://developer.xamarin.com/releases/studio/xamarin.studio_6.3/xamarin.studio_6.3/), you will se the alert:
Update for May 10, 2017: Xamarin Studio 6.3 is the final release of
Xamarin Studio. We recommend that developers now use Visual Studio on
both Windows and Mac. Visual Studio for Mac has all the features of
Xamarin Studio, adds cloud and web development, and contains
improvements for cross-platform mobile development.
and this one...
Visual Studio for Mac is replacing Xamarin Studio
Xamarin is a company that was founded in 2011 by engineers that created mono framework.
On early 2016 Xamarin and Microsoft announced that Microsoft signed a definitive agreement to acquire Xamarin. The acquisition value was something between $400 and $500 millions.
More information at wikipedia. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xamarin)
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We are in a process of doing R&D on Xamarin to convert our existing Windows Phone app to Cross-Platform. Now with the latest changes in Xamarin, we are trying to understand the licencing terms of Xamarin. We are working on Visual Studio 2013 Premium. So, do we get Xamarin for free as part of our Visual Studio 2013 and my company is also having MSDN Premium Subscription.
As per my knowledge Xamarin is free and part of VS 2015 and it is mentioned in lot of places also (https://www.xamarin.com/compare-visual-studio) but i got confused and got a doubt, Is there any dependency on what VS version we are using to get the free Xamarin Business Edition not the Indie (Starter Edition) licence ?
When i try to download the Xamarin it is downloading "vstoolsforxamarin", which is installing VS Community 2015. Kindly provide link to download Xamarin for VS 213.
I'm new to this Xamarin. So, please correct me if i'm wrong in any matter.
Appreciate your help.
Thanks in advance.
Kiran
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Here is a good news for you.
Xamarin for Everyone
You can Visit the Xamarin Store.
Build C# apps on Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac with Xamarin.(store)
Xamarin has also launched Contest: Get Answering on Stack Overflow
Because of this contest it is going to be easy for the new users to jump into Xamarin.
From Xamarin's blog regarding pricing
Visual Studio now includes Xamarin
As of today, we are including Xamarin in Visual Studio at no extra cost.
Xamarin will be in every edition of Visual Studio, including the
widely-available Visual Studio Community Edition, which is free for
individual developers, open source projects, academic research,
education, and small professional teams. Develop and publish native
apps for iOS and Android with C# or F# from directly within Visual
Studio with no limits on app size.
For developers on the Mac, Xamarin Studio is now available as a
benefit of your Visual Studio Professional or Enterprise subscription.
Developers can use the newly-created Xamarin Studio Community Edition
for free.
To begin developing iOS and Android apps with the full power of
Xamarin and C#, download Xamarin Studio or Xamarin for Visual Studio
today.
From Xamarin's FAQ regarding Visual Studio Compatibility
What are the minimum system requirements?
Xamarin requires the platform SDKs from Apple and Google to target iOS or Android, and our system requirements match theirs. To build for iOS, you'll need the latest iOS SDK (currently iOS 9.1), which ships with Xcode 7.1 and requires Mac OSX 10.10.5+ (Yosemite) or 10.11 (El Capitan). Our Visual Studio Extensions for iOS and Android support any non-Express editions of Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2013, and Visual Studio 2015 (Community, Professional, and Enterprise).
I have been out of .NET and normal software development world for half year (new job needs me to use MS Dynamics) and now looking to learn Android (for hobby). I have options to either learn Xamarin or just go native. I'm not sure which one would be better in long term. I'm more comfortable in C# than Java, but that's only because I did 5 years in C# and stopped Java after university. Going back to Java should just be a minor problem.
My concern now is the cost/licence limitation on Xamarin.
Can I learn Xamarin for free? I'm guessing this is a yes ever since Microsoft bought them, right?
Is there any limits on the size of codes, whatever for Xamarin that will force me to buy the licence?
Short question is: Is Xamarin totally free - starting from learning-development-publishing?
Note: The only limitation is there are some additional tools that are only available to Visual Studio Enterprise license holders, other than that, have fun coding.
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/features/xamarin-vs
Now with Xamarin
Deliver native Android, iOS, and Windows apps, with a single shared C# codebase
https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-for-all/
Visual Studio now includes Xamarin
As of today, we are including Xamarin in Visual Studio at no extra cost.
Xamarin will be in every edition of Visual Studio, including the widely-available Visual Studio Community Edition, which is free for individual developers, open source projects, academic research, education, and small professional teams. Develop and publish native apps for iOS and Android with C# or F# from directly within Visual Studio with no limits on app size.
For developers on the Mac, Xamarin Studio is now available as a benefit of your Visual Studio Professional or Enterprise subscription. Developers can use the newly-created Xamarin Studio Community Edition for free.
Download: http://aka.ms/xam1
You can learn about Xamarin for free with MVA courses, an edX course and Charles Petzold's book. Find these resources here:
MVA, edX, book
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I am new to Xamarin and I am thinking of developing an application both in iOS and Android using Xamarin.forms.
I have looked through the Xamarin licenses but I am unsure if the free or community license includes Xamarin.forms or will I need a paid license to use Xamarin.forms.
Xamarin.Forms is included in the community editions
Does this mean no more Starter Edition?
Yes. Visual Studio Community
and Xamarin Studio Community editions give many more developers the
ability to develop Xamarin apps without Starter’s limitations on size
or functionality.
Can Xamarin.Forms apps be built from any Visual
Studio edition, including Community?
Yes.
From Xamarin FAQ
Currently I explore the Visual Studio 2015 RC and realized that Xamarin Studio is integrated into Visual Studio and its installer. My Question is: Is Xamarin from now on free in Visual Studio?
Updated March 31st, 2016:
We have announced that Visual Studio now includes Xamarin at no extra cost, including Community Edition, which is free for individual developers, open source projects, academic research, education, and small professional teams. There is no size restriction on the Community Edition and offers the same features as the Pro & Enterprise editions. Read more about the update here: https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-for-all/
Be sure to browse the store on how to download and get started: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing/ and there is a nice FAQ section: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/support/
Yes, Xamarin is now free in Visual Studio
I asked the same question to Xamarin support team, they replied with following:
You can develop an app with Xamarin for commercial usage - there is no extra charge! We only require you to comply with Visual Studio's licensing terms,
which means that in companies of less than 250 employees with less than $1million USD annual revenue, you may use Visual Studio completely free (including Xamarin) for up to 5 developers.
However after you pass those barriers, you would need a Visual Studio license (which includes Xamarin).
Refer the screenshot below.
Visual Studio 2015 does include Xamarin Starter edition https://xamarin.com/starter
Xamarin Starter is free and allows developers to build and publish simple apps with the following limitations:
Contain no more than 128k of compiled user code (IL)
Do NOT call out to native third party libraries (i.e., developers may not P/Invoke into C/C++/Objective-C/Java)
Built using Xamarin.iOS / Xamarin.Android (NOT Xamarin.Forms)
Xamarin Starter installs automatically with Visual Studio 2015, and works with VS 2012, 2013, and 2015 (including Community Editions).
When your app outgrows Starter, you will be offered the opportunity to upgrade to a paid subscription, which you can learn more about here: https://store.xamarin.com/
Seems like now it's free for small teams and students, according to Scott Hanselman post https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/715568774418595840
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing/
Visual Studio Community
FREE
A free, full-featured and extensible IDE for Windows users to create
Android and iOS apps with Xamarin, as well as Windows apps, web apps,
and cloud services.
Students
OSS development
Small teams
and
Xamarin Studio Community
FREE
A free, full-featured IDE for Mac users to create Android and iOS apps
using Xamarin.
Students
OSS development
Small teams
If you go to the visualstudio.com Visual Studio 2015 RC cross-platform and mobile apps page, then read and scroll to the bottom, it appears that Microsoft is including Xamarin, and upon installing it you do have, as James said, the Xamarin Starter edition. In 2015 RC go to Tools, Xamarin Account to see your Xamarin license. I do not know the limitations, or any expiration date, of this Starter Xamarin Account.
Still, I don't know about you, but the Visual Studio 2015 RC "Community" edition I installed expires in less than 180 days. (Check the Help menu, go to "About...", and click on your license status to check.)
Let's say Xamarin Starter edition is free, but Visual Studio 2015 "Community" has an expiration date. So the bigger question might be whether Visual Studio 2015 "Community" will be free.
Without Xamarin though, Microsoft is offering C++ tools for cross-platform development, but scroll down to the bottom of the page and you might be surprised or confused at the download link description.
Visual studio community edition is bundled with xamarin and which is free as well.
No, it only contains a free 30 day trial. But I think there would be a package if you buy Visual Studio + Xamarin.
Xamarin is now owned by Microsoft So it completely free to use on Windows and mac as well.
Yes, Microsoft announced that xamrin is now free with VS15 and other latest versions.
Visual Studio is now including Xamarin also. You can download Xamarin Studio but this link
Make sure to get the Community Edition. it's Free to use