In System Preferences, click on “Sharing”. On the Mac Machine, select “System Preferences”. You can refer to and create basic Xamarin.iOS or Xamarin.Form application.Īfter creation, Visual Studio will prompt you to prepare your Mac to be the Xamarin build host, using the below 3 steps. I have explained about basic Xamarin.Form application creation in my previous article. It greatly helps if your machines are physically near to each other, because when you build and run on Windows, the iOS Simulator will load on your Mac.
A Mac running OS X El Capitan (10.11) or higher.
You cannot use the Xamarin plug-in in Visual Studio Express editions. You can install the following software from Windows and Mac machines. Please read below where I have explained about software requirements and steps. But, an iOS app cannot be created without Apple Compiler, and it cannot be deployed without Apple certificate and code-signing tools.
Xamarin and Microsoft are giving very great solutions for creating and debugging iOS applications. In this article, I will explain what are the ways to debug and build Xamarin.iOS applications on Windows machines. You can create, build, and debug iOS applications in Windows machines, using Visual Studio. Xamarin is great technology for cross-platform mobile application development.
