

Other things the installer will download and install include the latest copy of the Android SDK as you’ll need that for testing with a device emulator. Net runtime and pause to download and install it if necessary. Upon launch, the setup program will check for the proper version of the. You’ll want to make sure you have a minimum of 1 GB of available disk space as the download requires over 600 MB, and those files will expand upon installation. While you don’t necessarily need to uninstall older versions of the Android SDK, the setup program will download and install another copy, so you might as well remove any old versions to save disk space. If you had a previous version of Mono Droid installed, you’ll need to remove it prior to starting the setup program. Start the process by downloading a small setup.exe file from the Xamarin site, which will determine the components you need to complete the installation. Xamarin has adopted the use of a comprehensive all-in-one installer to make the process easier. There’s also a new 3.0 release of MonoDevelop, the open-source integrated development environment (IDE) that runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.įor the purpose of this review we tested using both MonoDevelop and Visual Studio 2010 on 32- and 64-bit Windows 7.

Now you can drag and drop UI elements on a XAML design surface right in Visual Studio. The recent release of Mono for Android 4.2 brings with it new support for building a user interface (UI) in the form of the Xamarin Designer.
