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Does anyone know what kind of development for Android does VS offer? I guess it's not java, and I'm not familiar with options

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  With Visual Studio 2015 Preview you can target Android and edit-compile-debug regardless
  of your choice of programming models:

  JavaScript (or TypeScript) with Cordova, C++, or C# with Xamarin.

Thanks! I must've missed it

any famous apps done with cordova?

http://phonegap.com/app/feature/

Wikipedia's app used to be. Not sure if that's the app they still run across all the platforms though. https://github.com/wikimedia/WikipediaMobile

I wonder how much effort it would be to support C# as well, without Xamarin. Would they ever do that? Or would they prefer to not hurt Xamarin (or maybe Google/Apple) too much by offering their own C# crossplatform development?

I don't see what they would gain from a separate initiative when Xamarin has done all that work. They're "partnered", after all.

Xamarin. It is a good solution in order to make a small applications (let's say a showcase/order app for a small restaurant) on iOS and Android at the same time.

For more ambitious apps, IMO the overhead will never be worth it.

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