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Visual Studio certainly is an option for Android, iOS and OSX development, when combined with Xamarin. I even think this is the best crossplatform mobile toolse

Visual Studio certainly is an option for Android, iOS and OSX development, when combined with Xamarin. I even think this is the best crossplatform mobile toolset that currently exitst and others think so too [1]. If you think the Android SDK is very good, have you ever started the emulator and tried to debug an app? It's horrendously slow and buggy, if it works at all. iOS and especially WP are so much faster and easier to develop for. [1] http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/xamarin-3-enterprise-edition-reviewed/240168321?pgno=2 http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/xamarin-3-enterprise-edition-re...

rbanffy 12y ago
> If you think the Android SDK is very good, have you ever started the emulator and tried to debug an app? It's horrendously slow and buggy, if it works at all. It really depends. The iOS emulator runs x86 code. The Android emulators are full hardware emulators, but, if you choose to run your software on x86-based virtual hardware, it'll use your CPUs virtualization facilities to run faster than most handsets (which may not be the best idea considering actual hardware is much slower)