Is Xamarin free in Visual Studio 2015?

Question

Currently I explore the Visual Studio 2015 RC and realized that Xamarin Studio is integrated into Visual Studio and its installer. My Question is: Is Xamarin from now on free in

Answer 1

Visual Studio 2015 does include Xamarin Starter edition https://xamarin.com/starter

Xamarin Starter is free and allows developers to build and publish simple apps with the following limitations:

• Contain no more than 128k of compiled user code (IL)
• Do NOT call out to native third party libraries (i.e., developers may not P/Invoke into C/C++/Objective-C/Java)
• Built using Xamarin.iOS / Xamarin.Android (NOT Xamarin.Forms)

Xamarin Starter installs automatically with Visual Studio 2015, and works with VS 2012, 2013, and 2015 (including Community Editions). When your app outgrows Starter, you will be offered the opportunity to upgrade to a paid subscription, which you can learn more about here: https://store.xamarin.com/