How to install Xamarin on a personal computer

This document describes how to install Xamarin on a students personal machine

Android Components:

  1. JDK 1.6: http://download.xamarin.com/Installer/MonoForAndroid/jdk-6u39-windows-i586.exe

  2. Android SDK: http://dl.google.com/android/installer_r21-windows.exe

  3. GTK#: http://download.xamarin.com/Installer/gtk-sharp-2.12.20.msi

  4. Xamarin Studio: http://download.xamarin.com/studio/Windows/XamarinStudio-4.0.msi

  5. Xamarin.Android for Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio: http://download.xamarin.com/MonoforAndroid/Windows/mono-android-4.6.00049.msi

Xamarin.iOS for Visual Studio: http://download.xamarin.com/MonoTouchforVisualStudio/Windows/mtvs-1.0.897.0.msi

You can skip steps 3 and 4 if you don't need/want to use Xamarin Studio and use VisualStudio (2010/2012 Professional or better) instead. In that case you must have VS installed before proceeding with step 5.