Visual Studio is the tour de force of integrated development environments (IDEs). There is no doubt about that. You as a developer are able to be as versatile as you like by creating applications for a wide range of platforms. One of these platforms is mobile development. Developers are starting to create mobile applications, but don't want to use a different IDE. With Visual Studio 2015, you don't have to. It will allow you to create Android and (now with Xamarin) iOS applications too. This chapter will therefore take a look at the following concepts:
Installing Xamarin and other required components
Creating an Android Visual Studio project using Apache Cordova
Creating an iOS application using Xamarin Forms