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++.

Starting with Visual Studio version 15.8 Preview 1, developers can build or recompile their UWP and Win32 apps to run as native 64-bit ARM apps on always connected PCs.