As you edit your code, every time you stop typing for a few seconds, the current view gets updated and send to the phone you don’t have to reload or save – the code automatically gets compiled and sent to the phone where you can see how well it works.ĭespite the name, Live Player isn’t just for Xamarin.Forms apps (although that’s the focus for the first version which is available in preview it supports all the iOS and Android APIs. You pair the app with Visual Studio 2017 (from the 15.3 preview version on) or Visual Studio for Mac by photographing the QR code that appears on screen on the device you want to play code on, and then the IDE compiles the code you’re looking at to IL and sends that to the phone. At the Build conference Microsoft unveiled Xamarin Live Player, a mobile app that lets you see your code running live on an iOS or Android device, rather than using an emulator. Visual Studio already has an Android emulator that runs on Windows, and an iOS simulator for Windows, but that works by connecting to a Mac and opening the simulator there.
