Cross Platform C# Polyglot Apps for iOS, Android and Beyond Did you know you can combine C#, F#, Visual Basic, Razor, HTML and JavaScript within a single app? By Greg Shackles 12/01/2014 Get Code ...

Xamarin is a cross platform tool for building Android and iOS apps using Visual Studio (VS). It can potentially save you vast amounts of time by allowing you to build an app with a single code ...

He demonstrated how Xamarin enables Visual Studio developers to create cross-platform apps for iOS, Android and Windows, while sharing significant amounts of code.

The open source Visual Studio Code has become the No. 1 option for many developers, with a vast extension library that effectively turns the lightweight, cross-platform editor into a full-fledged ...

According to that same Stack Overflow survey cited by Microsoft, 56.6 percent of mobile developers are actually using Android Studio, compared to 36.6 percent who are using Visual Studio Code.

Almost ironically, what Visual Studio 2015 doesn't support, at least for now, is the Windows 10 Universal App Platform (UAP). Of course, that's not exactly surprising.

Microsoft’s accommodations for iOS and Android in “15” are not its first, however. The company previously has offered capabilities for Android and iOS in Visual Studio.