What is xamarine?

Question

I've read that it's helpful for building applications for Android using C# but can you briefly explain how this works ?

Answer 1

It's kinda like building a desktop app in windows forms.
You drag and place buttons etc... and write your code. When you compile on your PC it will start a simulation of an android phone, and here your program will open. Takes a little time to start up.

Hopefully this answers your question.

Answer 2

Xamarin studio is a powerful platform to build native Android and iOS apps using C#. It has different libraries that include app graphic user interface templates, buttons, tabs etc. and codes that converts C# code into native Android or iOS app code. Previously Xamarin was called Mono and it was helped to write code in OSX and Linux.