Mac users can sign-up to be notified when it's available from the Visual Studio website. Microsoft has already made the open-source version of Visual Studio Code available on GitHub for developers.

While the fresh new Visual Studio 2015 isn't as cross-platform as that, it does include support for other platforms in the mobile category, namely Android and iOS.

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.

Kotlin Gains in Popularity (source: Stack Overflow Trends) With Visual Studio, Android development is primarily done with C# via Xamarin, or with JavaScript via Cordova. The VS approach emphasizes ...

When Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 for Windows arrives, Android developers will have less of a wait to see the results of their code changes.

Total scores were: Xcode - 22; Visual Studio - 21; and Android Studio - 13. "Apple's Xcode beats Android on all measures on which it was evaluated," Strategy Analytics said in a news release.