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Support for Android CMake projects in Visual Studio

December 15, 2015 Dec 15, 2015 12/15/15
Ion Todirel
CMake is a cross-platform project generator that enables reuse of shared C++ code across multiple IDE and project systems. We made a change to CMake to support our Android toolchain in Visual Studio. With this change, you can take your existing CMake project targetting Android, and with minimal modifications, you can have it open in Visual ...

Java debugging and language support in Visual Studio for Android

November 6, 2015 Nov 6, 2015 11/6/15
Marian Luparu
As part of our continued efforts to make Visual Studio a productive environment for developing mobile applications we’re pleased to announce that Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 RC adds support for debugging your Java source files that are part of your Android projects and (with the help of an extension) get IntelliSense and Browsing ...

Developing cross-platform iOS applications using Visual Studio

June 4, 2015 Jun 4, 2015 06/4/15
Ankit Asthana
C++ is a popular high-level programming language available for all mobile devices running iOS, Android and or Windows. There are many factors driving the use of C++ for these mobile platforms ranging from code-reuse to run-time performance. Many platform defining applications available across these platforms such as Office, Skype, and Dropbox ...

Real World Cross-Platform Development with Visual Studio 2015: Synergex

May 7, 2015 May 7, 2015 05/7/15
Eric Battalio
The Visual C++ team welcomes opportunities to help partners, customers and the community (future customers) realize the benefits of Visual C++ and Visual Studio 2015. Recently, we have been fortunate to work with Synergex to go beyond debugging Windows code with Visual Studio: Now we’re focusing our efforts on moving our customers and ...

Developing Native-Activity (Android) applications

December 5, 2014 Dec 5, 2014 12/5/14
Ankit Asthana
Overview Visual Studio 2015 preview (download here) introduces the ability for developers to create Android Native Activity application as a part of the cross-platform mobile development. Android platform with Android Native Activity (API Level 9) introduced the capability to create pure C/C++ applications. While there is some hidden Java JNI...