To build along with this tutorial, you will need to have Java and Maven installed. You will also need the latest Visual Studio Code distribution for your system, if you don’t already have it.

You can build cross-platform mobile apps in Visual Studio 2015 for Android, iOS, and Windows with Xamarin and with Apache Cordova. You can also build them in cross-platform C++.

Developers can now use the latest Visual Studio preview to build native ARM64 apps for Windows 10 on ARM PCs.