I've signed up for a business trial, I've installed Xamarin Studio on Windows. It doesn't even come with the ability to build an iOS solution and run it on an emulator.
Ok. So I try to build the stuff I downloaded in Visual Studio 2015 and it absolutely does not work out of the box. This is the sample app we are talking about. The API version in the core lib is 10. So I'm messing with configuration properties.
Then I hear that even if I get this thing building in VS, the WYSIWYG gui editor part of Xamarin only works on a Mac. Are you guys serious.
At this point I am so far from cross platform development that I am ready to toss this whole thing and use Cordova. What, if anything, am I missing?