>to make a build for iOS for instance you have to hook up a Mac to your PC ditto Android and as Viv pointed out there are platform specific differences when building forms for instance - I naively thought Xamarin took care of all that stuff - thanks for your interest


For that one please blame Apple - Xamarin is just following Cupertino rules. That said, there were/are services doing the build in the cloud, if you trust them not to peek at/modify your sources