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Xamarin 3 Breaks New Ground in Native Mobile App DevelopmentSAN FRANCISCO --(Business Wire)-- Xamarin, the company that empowers more than 600,000 developers to build fully native mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows, today announced the availability of Xamarin 3. This release brings a groundbreaking new alternative to Apple's Xcode Interface Builder for designing iOS apps in Xamarin. In addition, Xamarin 3 provides developers with the world's first mobile API for building app UI for iOS, Android and Windows Phone (News - Alert) using shared code that delivers fully native apps with no compromise to the user experience. Enterprise mobility, BYOD and the proliferation of smart devices create compound challenges for developers. Businesses are mobilizing operations at a rapid pace; according to analyst firm Gartner (News - Alert), the ratio of projects focused on mobile vs. PC app development is expected to reach a ratio of 4:1 by 2015. With high expectations for mobile user experiences and growing momentum for emerging device form factors, like Google (News - Alert) Glass, Android Wear and Amazon Fire TV, it is becoming increasingly difficult for developers to deliver on every demand. Xamarin solves these challenges by unifying native mobile development for iOS, Android and development in C#, the language used by an estimated six million developers worldwide. The introduction of Xamarin 3 accelerates native mobile app development, vastly improving the mobile app design process, and providing more code-sharing possibilities than any other solution in the market, while still delivering apps with completely native UI, behavior and performance fidelity. Xamarin achieves this while allowing businesses to leverage existing in-house developer skills, code and tools, such as Visual Studio, to build native mobile apps that share source code across device platforms, essentially transforming existing teams into mobile developers virtually overnight. "Mobile is an increasingly strategic channel for us to engage with our readers," said Ian Rosen, Vice President and General Manager, MarketWatch and SmartMoney at Dow Jones. "Xamarin made it possible for our team to build an app much more quickly than we otherwise could have." Xamarin 3 Features: Xamarin 3 builds on the company's unique approach to native development in C# with the following new features.
For additional information on Xamarin 3, benefits and pricing visit: blog.xamarin.com where you can also sign up for an Introduction to Xamarin 3 webinar. About Xamarin Xamarin is the new standard for enterprise mobile development. No other platform enables businesses to reach 2.6 billion iOS, Android, Mac and Windows devices with 100 percent fully native apps from a single, shared code base. Xamarin is used by over 600,000 developers from more than 100 Fortune 500 companies to accelerate the creation of mission-critical consumer and enterprise apps. Xamarin's global customer base in 120 countries includes Dow Jones, Bosch, McKesson, Halliburton, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cognizant (News - Alert), GitHub, Rdio and WebMD. Xamarin is a Visionary in Gartner's 2013 Magic Quadrant report for Mobile Application Development Platforms. For more information, please visit: xamarin.com or follow us @xamarinhq.
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