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Build outstanding apps for all platforms

Create mobile experiences that users love – in a fraction of the cost or time. Compared to platform-specific development, Microsoft helps you get 291% ROI over three years and pay back your investment in just one month.*

*Based on the Forrester Consulting study: The Total Economic Impact (TEI) Xamarin for Visual Studio.

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GET TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGY TO HELP YOUR BUSINESS GROW

Accelerate time-to-market

Maximize your existing resources. Use one team, one IDE, and one codebase for all apps.

Out-mobile the competition

Get turnkey cloud services that easily integrate with your business and scale on demand.

Innovate and iterate quickly

Streamline your mobile development cycles with open, flexible DevOps tools.

DevOps lifecycle

Learn how DevOps processes help you overcome common challenges and deliver high quality apps for all scenarios

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Plan and track

Mobile development is complex with multiple branches, UI designs, features, test scripts, crash reports, and user behavior data.

Visibility and team communication are critical; your team needs one place of truth, allowing anyone to see, comment on, and resolve in-flight work items.

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Develop

Deliver fully native apps for all platforms at the speed your business demands, using your existing C# skills, teams, and code.

Automating your build processes gives you the rapid time-to-market you need to create dozens of apps for all scenarios – customers, employees, and suppliers – and stay competitive.

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Test

Automatically test apps on thousands of real devices, shipping apps that look, feel, and behave like users expect.

Test early, often, and in real-world scenarios to identify problems early, reduce re-work, and make every release a high-quality release.

Distribute to internal and external beta testers to get real user feedback and metrics before releasing to a large user base.

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Release

Create repeatable, reliable, and automatic deployment processes and track simultaneous releases all the way to production.

Free your team to focus on building new features, not manual workflows.

Solve issues, push app updates out quickly, and focus on innovation.

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Monitor and learn

Make every sprint better than your last, using real user and app behavior to prioritize new features.

Deliver more value to your users, prioritizing new features based on real user and app behavior.

Make data-driven decisions to out-mobile your competition.

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Plan and track

Mobile development is complex with multiple branches, UI designs, features, test scripts, crash reports, and user behavior data.

Visibility and team communication are critical; your team needs one place of truth, allowing anyone to see, comment on, and resolve in-flight work items.

Develop

Deliver fully native apps for all platforms at the speed your business demands, using your existing C# skills, teams, and code.

Automating your build processes gives you the rapid time-to-market you need to create dozens of apps for all scenarios – customers, employees, and suppliers – and stay competitive.

Test

Automatically test apps on thousands of real devices, shipping apps that look, feel, and behave like users expect.

Test early, often, and in real-world scenarios to identify problems early, reduce re-work, and make every release a high-quality release.

Distribute to internal and external beta testers to get real user feedback and metrics before releasing to a large user base.

Release

Create repeatable, reliable, and automatic deployment processes and track simultaneous releases all the way to production.

Free your team to focus on building new features, not manual workflows.

Solve issues, push app updates out quickly, and focus on innovation.

Monitor and learn

Make every sprint better than your last, using real user and app behavior to prioritize new features.

Deliver more value to your users, prioritizing new features based on real user and app behavior.

Make data-driven decisions to out-mobile your competition.

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Deliver better apps, faster

Get new apps into users’ hands rapidly and exceed business expectations with efficient, automated mobile development processes and frictionless release cycles.

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Connect to a secured cloud that meets you where you are

Reduce your infrastructure costs and add must-have mobile features to your apps with Microsoft Azure, whether you host data on-premises or in the cloud.

Add functionality in minutes, quickly incorporate trending technology, and get the real-time analytics you need to make informed business decisions.

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Total economic impact of Xamarin for Visual Studio

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Building a successful enterprise mobile strategy: analysis and advice from Gartner and Microsoft

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