I have installed Visual Studio 2015 Professional and would like to know how/what should I download from the Xamarin website to integrate into VS 2015 Pro to develop Android apps with Xamarin.
Just download the universal installer from their website
During Visual Studio installation, you have the option to select C#/.NET(Xamarin) under Cross-Platform Development.
You can Modify/Repair the Visual Studio install and select Xamarin and any other components (e.g. Android SDK if it was not selected previously, although they can also be installed separately) and update the installation. Install details/reference here
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Visual Studio can have multiple Extension SDKs which are used to ease the development.
Is Xamarin SDK belongs to one of those Extension SDKs of Visual Studio
IDE?
Xamarin SDK is an open-source framework to develop mobile application. And it is bundled as a free tool within Microsoft Visual Studio's integrated development environment.
To answer your question, Yes Xamarin SDK is a part of SDKs in Visual Studio.
Visual Studio use the NuGet Package Manager to Install and manage packages(Like the Xamarin SDK and other Extension SDKs you mentioned in your question).
Those packages are added to your project and you can use them to develop your project.
Xamarin is installed by default if you create a Xamarin.forms project in Visual-Studio.
Xamarin is shipped as a Visual Studio Workload. Although this documentation page doesn't show the individual SDK packages, they are included in the component: Component.Xamarin.
i.e. Xamarin.Android.Sdk / Xamarin.VisualStudio.Apple.Sdk / etc
If you installed Visual Studio 2019 and watched the installer, you'd see the names of these packages as they progress!
Otherwise you can just go into Visual Studio and click on Help -> About Visual Studio and see all of the various packages!
I have installed VS 2015 Professional installed in my system and want to install VS Emulator for Android as I need it for Xamarin Android development but the setup doesn't seem to have an option for it(below screenshots). Can someone suggest how I can go about with this?
The Visual Studio Emulator for Android is installed with Visual Studio 2015 when you select Visual C++ for Cross Platform Development features.
If you update your VS 2015 to Update 3, you can also see the option Microsoft Visual Studio Emulator for Android:
The emulator can be launched from within Visual Studio 2015 from
Apache Cordova projects
C++ Native Activity (Android) projects
Xamarin Android projects
For Android development, you also need to install the Android SDK. And it is also suggested to create your own emulator with google service, for the emulator installed with VS, Hyper-V should be enabled, and for self-created emulator with Google service, Hyper-V should be disabled. Please refer to Windows Installation and Visual Studio Android Emulator to configure your environment for Xamarin Android development.
I am using visual studio 2015 , i need to install xamarin components for android in visual studio offline manually.
How to do this manually (offline installation) ?
can anyone please share the offline components links
You can check this link for Xamarin Android Manual Installation. It includes the steps required to manually install Xamarin.Android
I am trying to install xamarin tools in visual studio 2012 but whenever i go to this link below
Xamarin Download Link
It comes with xamarin tools for visual studio 2015 . Had microsoft stopped xamarin modile development tools integration in visual studio 2012.
As you can read here they do still support 2012 https://www.xamarin.com/faq
You can try downloading it here https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/dcd5b7bd-48f0-4245-80b6-002d22ea6eee
You can also acces the extension installation from within VS 2012. I believe it will be under tools Menu and then extensions and updates
I have just downloaded and installed Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition to start developing Android application using C#. But no option is present there for developing android / ios apps using C#.
Can anyone suggest me how could I download and install android SDK for Visual studio 2013 community edition and start working on it ?
I think you can use this link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn771552.aspx#NET