AWS Adds Xamarin to Cross-Platform Mobile Development Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android receive the most attention from cross-platform mobile development professionals. However, the Microsoft.NET Framework is receiving a lot of publicity lately with the release of Windows 10 today and its Universal Apps approach. Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), yesterday announced a new software developer kit (SDK), for Xamarin. This C#-based tooling allows developers to target all three platforms using one code base. Xamarin uses Microsoft’s C# language. It also provides cross-platform capabilities via a plugin. Jeff Barr, an AWS executive, said yesterday that mobile developers can use the company’s new SDK with Visual Studio as well as the Xamarin plugin. Or they can use it separately with the standalone Xamarin Studio IDE. [Click on the image to see a larger view.] Coding with the Xamarin IDE (source AWS) “We want developers to be able to use the programming language they choose to build AWS-powered apps that run on many different devices and in a variety of environments,” Barr stated. Developers can access AWS services like:

Amazon Cognito — Identity management.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) — Object storage
Amazon DynamoDB — NoSQL Database
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), mobile push notifications
Amazon Mobile Analytics — Track app usage and other metrics.

Jon Dick, Xamarin exec, wrote yesterday that AWS and Xamarin take out the hassle of adding complex back-ends to your apps. This gives you a flexible, scalable, way to go mobile. Dick explained that you can use Amazon Cognito Cloud Sync, which synchronizes app states between devices, and Amazon S3 for cloud storage to access critical documents and content. AWS also offers guidance on how to use the new SDK. This includes instructions on how it can be installed and how to hook up with AWS services. The Xamarin SDK now supports C# in addition to JavaScript, JavaScript, Java. Node.js PHP, Python, Ruby, and Ruby. AWS recently added Unity support to iOS, Android, and.NET. This is used for game development.

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