{"id":6940,"date":"2012-12-12T18:07:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T17:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=6940"},"modified":"2012-12-12T18:07:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T17:07:56","slug":"xamarin-brings-c-to-development-of-apps-for-the-mac-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/6940-xamarin-brings-c-to-development-of-apps-for-the-mac-app-store.html","title":{"rendered":"Xamarin brings C# to development of apps for the Mac App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xamarin has released <a href=\"http:\/\/xamarin.com\/mac\" target=\"_blank\">Xamarin Mac<\/a> which adds Mac support to the existing iOS and Android compilers from the company:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MonoTouch: apps for iPhone and iPad using the MonoDevelop IDE on the Mac<\/li>\n<li>Mono for Android: apps for Android using either Visual Studio or MonoDevelop<\/li>\n<li>Xamarin.Mac: apps for Mac OS X using MonoDevelop on the Mac<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The major platforms missing from the above are Windows and Linux (unless you count Android), even though Mono began as a Linux implementation of Microsoft\u2019s .NET platform. <\/p>\n<p>Xamarin says that a Windows version is not necessary since you can use Microsoft\u2019s tools to code in C# for Windows desktop and Windows phone.<\/p>\n<p>You can also get Mono for Windows, Mac and Linux from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.go-mono.com\/mono-downloads\/download.html\" target=\"_blank\">old Mono project site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why would you bother with paid-for Xamarin.Mac when you can get Mono for Mac as a free download? There is even a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mono-project.com\/MonoMacPackager\" target=\"_blank\">Mac packager<\/a> which lets you create a standalone package for your Mono app. A good question, but I guess the answer is the benefit of Xamarin-specific libraries and support from the company. Xamarin has also done the work to ensure that you can distribute your app via the Mac App Store.<\/p>\n<p>Xamarin.Mac costs $399 for personal use, or $999 for an enterprise license which allows internal as well as app store distribution. A one year, one seat license with priority support costs $2,499.<\/p>\n<p>Xamarin knows how to charge then, and in the end that may be a key reason why the project is working, whereas Mono struggled as an open source project that never had the resources it deserved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mono-project.com\/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mono-project.com\/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">The Mono Project<\/a><\/a> site now says that it is \u201csponsored by Xamarin\u201d so open source developers are getting some benefit from the commercial offshoot.<\/p>\n<p>Xamarin is important for the C# language, since it represents a viable implementation which is independent of Microsoft. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xamarin has released Xamarin Mac which adds Mac support to the existing iOS and Android compilers from the company: MonoTouch: apps for iPhone and iPad using the MonoDevelop IDE on the Mac Mono for Android: apps for Android using either Visual Studio or MonoDevelop Xamarin.Mac: apps for Mac OS X using MonoDevelop on the Mac &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/6940-xamarin-brings-c-to-development-of-apps-for-the-mac-app-store.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Xamarin brings C# to development of apps for the Mac App Store<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,26,55,56,57,80],"tags":[143,236,499,565,586,599,607,1044],"class_list":["post-6940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-development","category-microsoft","category-mobile","category-mono","category-software-development","tag-android","tag-c","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-microsoft","tag-mobile","tag-mono","tag-xamarin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}