>Hi all, title says it, I'm currently contracting for a company that want) to put an app on a mobile device ( more tablet than phone ) and they have asked me to look into it, my immediate thought was Xamarin ( despite their licensing structure ) anyone here used / using it with Visual Studio ?

Haven't used it but looked at some of this : http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/-cross-platform-development-with-xamarin-visual-studio

Still needs quite a bit of platform specific code. Also seems to be a pain in that Xamarin forms do not support a XAML designer - throughout the demo he's using code to define layout....

Also, on the cost side I see there's a 20% reduction for MSDN subscribers...