Android and iOS development in Microsoft's IDE now has first party support.



From ArsTechnica:

At its TechEd conference today, Microsoft announced the next step in its "mobile first, cloud first" strategy with a preview of Apache Cordova support in Visual Studio. Cordova is a toolkit for building apps for iOS, Android, and Windows using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With the Cordova integration, Visual Studio will directly support building apps for all of these platforms.

Visual Studio has previously supported third-party platforms when used with third-party products, such as Xamarin, which provides a .NET-based build environment for Android and iOS.

  Visual Studio goes cross platform with Cordova integration from Microsoft