Mobile App Development | Visual Studio2024-09-24T12:50:22-07:00

Mobile app development

Build cloud-connected cross platform mobile apps and games for iOS, Android, and Windows

A single toolchain across mobile and cloud

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Native apps with .NET

Build cross-platform apps with .NET MAUI

Visual Studio is the premier IDE for building .NET MAUI apps, offering seamless integration that allows you to develop, debug, and deploy your applications from a single environment. With .NET MAUI, you can create apps that run on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows from a single codebase, simplifying cross-platform development. Leverage advanced debugging tools and Hot Reload to quickly identify issues and see changes in real-time, enhancing your productivity. Visual Studio’s comprehensive tooling and large community support make it the ideal choice for developing modern, high-quality .NET MAUI applications.

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Azure App Service

Mobile backend as a service

Azure App Service Mobile Apps is a platform as a service (PaaS) offering that brings a rich set of capabilities to mobile apps. You can incorporate any of its pieces to accelerate your mobile application development. Add data storage in the cloud, enterprise or social authentication, push notifications or offline sync, all while scaling to millions of devices.

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Native apps with C++

Cross-platform native development

Share, reuse, build, deploy, and debug your cross-platform C++ mobile code. Create projects from templates for Android Native-Activity applications, or create high-performance shared libraries to include in other solutions. You can also bring your existing C++ code to mobile platforms with minimal work. Use platform specific IntelliSense, validate code without building as you type, set breakpoints, watch variables, and deploy the application to devices (ARM, x86) and emulators alike.

Games with Unity

Cross-platform game development with Unity and Visual Studio

Build your 2D and 3D games with the unparalleled Unity engine in Visual Studio–create once and target over 17 platforms, including all mobile platforms. Debug Unity from Visual Studio with the world-class Visual Studio debugger to set breakpoints and evaluate variables and complex expressions, and leverage all the great features Visual Studio has to offer to boost your productivity.

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British Airways

British Airways delivers anywhere, anytime access to company news and updates to its 40K+ team members—on their device of choice.

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Hewlett Packard

Hewlett Packard uses Visual Studio tools for Apache Cordova to rapidly build modern user experiences across multiple mobile platforms.gos.

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