Microsoft’s Visual Studio Emulator for Android was launched only last November. It was the tech company’s attempt at getting developers working on Android apps from their own platform, but it ...

The Visual Studio Emulator for Android is a tool within the full Visual Studio 2015 suite, which Microsoft brought to Mac users for the first time back in April.

Visual Studio Emulator for Android is a tool that allows Android developers to test and debug their apps from the desktop OS of their choosing. The software arrived on Windows last year, and is ...

Total scores were: Xcode - 22; Visual Studio - 21; and Android Studio - 13. "Apple's Xcode beats Android on all measures on which it was evaluated," Strategy Analytics said in a news release.

Microsoft’s accommodations for iOS and Android in “15” are not its first, however. The company previously has offered capabilities for Android and iOS in Visual Studio.

Almost ironically, what Visual Studio 2015 doesn't support, at least for now, is the Windows 10 Universal App Platform (UAP). Of course, that's not exactly surprising.

Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 was also released today, marking five updates of varying sizes to the development tool. Some of these updates have been little more than bug fixes.

In the third beta release of Visual Studio 2017 15.7, which is now available for download, Microsoft has cut the time it takes to start the debugging process. Now, while an Android app is being ...