Microsoft’s Visual Studio Emulator for Android was launched only last November. It was the tech company’s attempt at getting developers working on Android apps from their own platform, but it proved ...

A few days ahead of the Windows 10 launch, Microsoft has released the latest version of its development environment. Over the last few years, Microsoft has been making Visual Studio into a tool for ...

Strategy Analytics ranks the mobile developer environments from Apple, Google, and Microsoft, with Visual Studio getting slightly outpointed by Xcode. Visual Studio fared well among IDEs in a recent ...

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New research from Strategy Analytics Inc. compared the mobile developer environments from Apple, Google and Microsoft, finding that Android Studio ranks far behind the Xcode and Visual Studio IDEs.

In another nod to the winners of the mobile market share battle — Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS — Microsoft is improving its signature Visual Studio IDE with more functionality for their phones and ...

Android developers who use Microsoft Visual Studio now have more choice. They can opt for Microsoft’s cross-platform toolset or use an Android development add-on recently released as open source.