Introduction

If you have not heard about Xamarin, we encourage you to do a Google search for this tool. Traditionally, developers needed to use Xcode or NetBeans to create iOS and Android applications. The challenge for developers was that it meant learning a new programming language. If you, for example, created an application that you wanted to deploy to iOS, Android, and Windows, you needed to know Objective-C or Swift, Java, and a .NET language.

This also created additional challenges for development, because it meant having to maintain multiple code bases. If a change was to be made in the Windows version of the application, it also had to be made to the iOS and Android code base. Sometimes companies would manage different development teams for each platform. You can imagine the complications involved in managing a change across multiple teams on multiple platforms. This is especially true if you are dealing with a large code base.

Xamarin solves this problem by allowing .NET developers...