Xamarin is now free and integrates completely with Visual Studio

In its day 2 keynote speech at Microsoft Annual Build 2016, Microsoft announced that Xamarin will now be in every edition of Visual Studio for no extra cost. Scott Guthrie, executive vice president at Microsoft announced that Xamarin cross platform solution will now be integrated into Visual Studio as well as in Visual Studio Community Edition. The Visual Studio Community Edition is free for education and academic research, open source projects, individual developers and small professional teams. Apparently developers can now use C# and F# to develop and publish native apps for Android devices as well as the devices running on iOS from Visual Studio directly. Also, there will be no limitations of app size. Furthermore, a new free Xamarin Studio Community Edition is created for developers on the Mac which is available as Visual Studio Professional or Enterprise subscription.