Building apps for Android with Visual Studio

are you an Android developer or are you looking to build your first Android app this might surprise you but Microsoft has a bunch of tools and services that make an Android developers life a little bit easier whether you want to build the app using javascript and web standards c-sharp or even c++ and java i'm amanda silver and I'll show you how Visual Studio can make you a more productive Android developer visual Studios easy setup gets your dev box ready fast its pre-installed with many project templates so you can get started building your app it has integrated support for debugging across devices and emulators we even have a visual studio emulator for Android which is fast and can be used with other IDs like Android studio or eclipse visual studio team services supports continuous integration and deployment for Android apps no matter how you've written them and you can use hockey app for your post-production needs like distributing betas analyzing crass reports and getting feedback from your customers let me show you how visual studio gets you going fast by setting up everything you need for Android development once setup you can see that visual studio provides you with a variety of templates to get going if you want to build your app using web standards you can use the Apache Cordova app templates to iterate quickly using workflow that's familiar to web developers if you want to build your app using c-sharp the xamarin extension for visual studio provides you with the variety of project templates and even support for Android wear you also get great intellisense for Android you also get the world's best Android designer if you're building using C++ you can build an app using OpenGL a native activity or just a shared library if you're building using C++ Visual Studio has one of the fastest debuggers out there new in the latest update we even allow you to step into code for Android written in Java building your app with JavaScript C sharp or C++ allows you to have maximal code sharing which makes it easier to build with a common code base when you're also targeting iOS no matter which programming language you use you'll find the Visual Studio emulator for Android super useful because it's x86 based it's really fast to get started it supports multi-touch which is amazing when you're developing on a touch enabled dev box like the surface book with Windows 10 the emulator is even available standalone and can be used from Android studio or eclipse today we're announcing that it's coming soon to the Mac visual studio team services allow you to build for Android using Gradle and you can use hockey app now a part of visual studio team services to deploy your app and gain insights into how it's performing in the wild things like feedback and crash analytics even into Java code no matter how you're building your Android app visual studio can make your team more productive and your life as a dev a little easier check out other videos that go deeper into some of the topics I discussed follow us on Twitter to stay current as we enable new functionality for mobile development and watch the vs blog for best practices testimonials and tips and tricks