Is Xamarin free in Visual Studio 2015

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Currently I explore the Visual Studio 2015 RC and realized that Xamarin Studio is integrated into Visual Studio and its installer  My Question is  Is Xamarin from now on free in Visual Studio

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Updated March 31st  2016   We have announced that Visual Studio now includes Xamarin at no extra cost  including Community Edition  which is free for individual developers  open source  projects  academic research  education  and small professional teams  There is no size restriction on the Community Edition and offers the same features as the Pro  amp  Enterprise editions  Read more about the update here  https   blog xamarin com xamarin-for-all   Be sure to browse the store on how to download and get started  https   visualstudio microsoft com vs pricing  and there is a nice FAQ section  https   visualstudio microsoft com vs support

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If you go to the visualstudio com Visual Studio 2015 RC cross-platform and mobile apps page  then read and scroll to the bottom  it appears that Microsoft is including Xamarin  and upon installing it you do have  as James said  the Xamarin Starter edition  In 2015 RC go to Tools  Xamarin Account to see your Xamarin license  I do not know the limitations  or any expiration date  of this Starter Xamarin Account   Still  I don t know about you  but the Visual Studio 2015 RC  Community  edition I installed expires in less than 180 days   Check the Help menu  go to  About      and click on your license status to check    Let s say Xamarin Starter edition is free  but Visual Studio 2015  Community  has an expiration date  So the bigger question might be whether Visual Studio 2015  Community  will be free     Without Xamarin though  Microsoft is offering C   tools for cross-platform development  but scroll down to the bottom of the page and you might be surprised or confused at the download link description

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Xamarin is now owned by Microsoft So it completely free to use on Windows and mac as well

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Visual Studio 2015 does include Xamarin Starter edition https   xamarin com starter  Xamarin Starter is free and allows developers to build and publish simple apps with the following limitations    Contain no more than 128k of compiled user code  IL  Do NOT call out to native third party libraries  i e   developers may not P Invoke into C C   Objective-C Java  Built using Xamarin iOS   Xamarin Android  NOT Xamarin Forms    Xamarin Starter installs automatically with Visual Studio 2015  and works with VS 2012  2013  and 2015  including Community Editions    When your app outgrows Starter  you will be offered the opportunity to upgrade to a paid subscription  which you can learn more about here  https   store xamarin com

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Seems like now it s free for small teams and students  according to Scott Hanselman post https   twitter com shanselman status 715568774418595840 https   visualstudio microsoft com vs pricing   Visual Studio Community FREE A free  full-featured and extensible IDE for Windows users to create Android and iOS apps with Xamarin  as well as Windows apps  web apps  and cloud services   Students OSS development Small teams   and Xamarin Studio Community FREE  A free  full-featured IDE for Mac users to create Android and iOS apps using Xamarin   Students OSS development Small teams

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Visual studio community edition is bundled with xamarin and which is free as well

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No  it only contains a free 30 day trial  But I think there would be a package if you buy Visual Studio   Xamarin

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Yes  Microsoft announced that xamrin is now free with VS15 and other latest versions

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I asked the same question to Xamarin support team  they replied with following   You can develop an app with Xamarin for commercial usage - there is no extra charge   We only require you to comply with Visual Studio s licensing terms    which means that in companies of less than 250 employees with less than  1million USD annual revenue  you may use Visual Studio completely free  including Xamarin  for up to 5 developers   However after you pass those barriers  you would need a Visual Studio license  which includes Xamarin      Refer the screenshot below

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Yes  Xamarin is now free in Visual Studio

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