[Taylorious]

It's boggled my mind why Microsoft hasn't tried to buy Xamarin sooner to do something like this. If they give the tools away for free and provide good documentation, samples, and support they could attract a lot of developers. Hell, they could even give some sort of financial incentive to attract developers too. It's annoying enough to have to develop for iOS and Android, if you could do both at the same time with less effort AND get Windows phone support... well that's just a huge win win all around.

[shaneofalltrad]

Are you kidding me? There are so many better ways to code on multiple devices, and adding another abstract to an already complex ever-changing environment is a mistake. The only "financial incentive" is to deter programmers by the cost of VS and the lack of flexibility by changing languages into MS products. (i.e. TypeScript)

[adamnemecek]

> There are so many better ways to code on multiple devices.

Such as?

[philtar]

Yeah I'm looking for a solution right now and would like to know the better alternatives that give me native apps.

[pjmlp]

Qt/C++ for one.

[mands]

Interesting. How does the Qt approach compare to Mono for mobile development?

I presume Qt apps use Qt's built-in UI rendering, with QML for any UI-logic. Slightly different to MVVM in Mono where you recreate native UI's on each platform, but also hopefully means you only need to create the UI once?

[pjmlp]

Yes, you can either use QML or C++.

http://qt.digia.com/qtmobile/?utm_campaign=qtprojectbanner

[sergiotapia]

lol

[pjmlp]

You LOL, I deliver applications. To each its own.