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Xamarin is specifically for app and UI on Android/iOS/Windows Phone.

And Mac. You could write shared business logic in C# for your Windows, Mac, and mobile apps, with a combination of .NET and Xamarin, and still use C# for each native UI.

But it sounds like you are actually thinking of Xamarin.Forms, which allows sharing UI code on mobile platforms as well as UWP. You are correct that there is no Mac support for that.

Ah, makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.

They released Mac bindings for Xamarin Forms recently. Not a stretch to imagine unified UI for desktops.

Actually that's exactly what I imagined to happen. What would be so fundamentally different in desktop development compared to mobile UI development that would exclude it from Xamarin? I don't see it.

Are you quite sure? I don't think this is correct.

Xamarin.Mac provides C# bindings to Mac desktop APIs, and has nothing to do with Xamarin.Forms.

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