Although currently JetBrains Rider does not provide a designer or a previewer for Xamarin forms, you can still benefit from code analysis, coding assistance, and debugging features in C, VB.NET, and other languages, as well as from general IDE features, such as the integrated VCS client.

If other tools that Xamarin relies on (for example, Android SDK, Android Emulator) are configured properly, you will be able to build and run your Xamarin application right from the JetBrains Rider IDE.

Xamarin SDK To develop Xamarin Applications you need to have a Xamarin SDK on your machine.

Xamarin Android Emulator Mac And For

There are two different Xamarin SDKs for iOSMac and for Android.

Xamarin SDK consists of two parts: Assemblies with.NET types for the target platform.

For example, a.NET type to represent the base OSX NSObject.

Using these assemblies, IDE and compiler resolve and build user code.

Tools that transform.NET projects into native applications, which can be deployed and executed on the emulator or a physical device.

Xamarin Android Emulator Apk Packages For

For example, using these tools.apk packages for Android are built.

JetBrains Xamarin SDK JetBrains Rider can use different Xamarin SDKs, for example the one from Visual Studio.

However, if you do not have Visual Studio on your machine, you can use JetBrains Xamarin SDK prepared and packed by the JetBrains Rider team.

JetBrains Xamarin SDK is a custom build of Xamarin GitHub sources with some improvements and additional code.

Currently JetBrains Xamarin SDK lacks some features compared to Visual Studio Xamarin SDK, but it is in the process of constant improvement.

JetBrains Xamarin SDK is available for Windows and macOS: There are two JetBrains Xamarin SDK builds available on Windows targeting the following platforms: Apple platform (iOS, Mac, tvOS, watchOS) JetBrains Xamarin SDK for iOS development provides a limited feature set on Windows.

For example, currently it does not support connecting to a remote Mac and perform full builddeploy.

JetBrains Xamarin SDK for Apple platforms on Windows ships as a.zip file ( 60Mb) and installs into the JetBrains MsBuild directory: LOCALAPPDATAJetBrainsBuildTools.

Android JetBrains Xamarin SDK for Android development provides a solid feature set.

JetBrains Xamarin SDK for Android platforms on Windows ships as a.zip file ( 700Mb) and installs into the JetBrains MsBuild directory: LOCALAPPDATAJetBrainsBuildTools.

JetBrains Xamarin SDK for iOS development on macOS ships as a.dmg file ( 700Mb) and installs into: LibraryFrameworksXamarin.iOS.framework LibraryFrameworksXamarin.Mac.framework LibraryFrameworksMono.frameworkExternal Android JetBrains Xamarin SDK for Android development provides a solid feature set.

JetBrains Xamarin SDK for Android development on macOS ships as a.dmg file ( 700Mb) and installs into: LibraryFrameworksXamarin.Android.framework LibraryFrameworksMono.frameworkExternal Before you start Xamarin aims to be executed on a variety of different platforms and therefore Xamarin development relies on several different tools for building and running your applications.

On Windows, you can develop Xamarin applications for any platform, but local build and rundebug is limited to Android devices and emulators.

If you use Visual Studio Xamarin SDK, you will be able to build and run your application on iOS and macOS.

To do so, configure a Mac agent accessible on the network, and then connect to it ( Tools iOS Xamarin Mac Agent ).