It’s been a while since I last posted an article. I’ve been really busy with the technical training sessions I’ve been facilitating. Not only that, the craziest thing also happened to me just last week. My personal laptop, where I keep all of my important files, do all of my mobile development, etc., has succumbed to the ephemeral nature of its existence.

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In short, it’s broken. I still have three upcoming events and I need a machine to share my presentation and do the demos. Luckily, my company lend me a Mac. The “Problem” The thing is, this is the first time I’m going to use a Mac and I’m kind of not really happy using a Mac machine since I’ve been a solid PC master race member since birth.

So, yeah, this is new to me. Yes, I have no problems with showing my presentations to the audiences using Mac. What I was worried about is my development setup. How can I demo Xamarin Development? (I’m kind of underestimating the power of Mac:P) And yes, I knew that Visual Studio for Mac exists, but I wasn’t sure what else to setup other than that. I thought I needed to install different components, configure a couple of stuff, etc. But I was wrong.

All I needed to do was to launch Visual Studio Installer and install Visual Studio for Mac and that’s it! Download Visual Studio Installer for Mac First of all, what you need to do is to download the Visual Studio Installer by going to and click the Download Visual Studio for Mac button. It will download a disk image (.dmg) file of Visual Studio Installer.

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Launch the Visual Studio Installer Once done downloading the installer, you can launch it and you will see this application. You can just press the big install icon. It will check if some of the components are installed and load a couple of stuff and proceed to the next installation step. A popup will appear wherein you can read the license terms. You can just press continue. Getting Xcode (Optional) If you’re only developing an application for Android, you can skip this step. Though, most likely, you will.

So you need to install Xcode by clicking Get Xcode. We will not discuss how to install Xcode, we will focus on the Visual Studio installation. What would you like to install? This is the next step on your installation.

This will install the Visual Studio IDE + Which you can use to find memory leaks, resolve performance bottlenecks, and add polish to your apps before getting them out the door. The next two categories are the platforms and tools.

For the platforms, you have Xamarin Native development for Android and iOS (both include the Xamarin.Forms). You also have macOS development.

For tools, you have. All platforms and tools are initially checked, but you can excluded any of them. But, I would suggest to install all of them, because they’re all significant. Well, I guess you won’t be using macOS:P IDE, Platform and Tools Installation After selecting the platform and tools that you want to install, you can finally continue will the actual installation.