Sorry I know this is a few weeks old but I briefly tried VS 2015 Community today and saw the Xamarin stuff and got a little excited. After downloading the Xamarin stuff VS told me to (took a good while) I thought I was all set only to find out I need a Mac also. Then I remembered this thread...a little late. Dang! It would have been nice if VS warned me about needing a Mac before I went ahead and downloaded everything. :(
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > When I had a play with Xamarin a few months back, you had to have/buy a >> Mac as well, >> > > I bought a new iMac last Saturday morning in preparation for all of this > x-platform development. I know that the iOS build and deploy MUST take > place on a Mac, using some "convenient" network link I haven't tried yet. > > It's taken a few days of fiddling around to get used to the iOS look and > feel. It's beautiful software and hardware engineering, but a bit ... err > ... weird. There was a 2.3GB download of Xcode and other tools to install, > but it all went smoothly. I don't like the toolbar stuck at the top of the > screen all the time that changes according to which app has the focus, as > it means your app's UI is in two places at once. They sure love to bury > advanced stuff really deep away from suburban schmuck users -- *Greg K* >
