- Let's open up your favorite browser.
- Type https://www.xamarin.com/download in the address bar and press Enter.
- You should see a screen similar to this:
- Now, fill in your details and press the Download VS for Mac Community button.
- This will download a file to the Downloads directory by default, named VisualStudioForMacInstaller__215259590.1517557727.dmg or something similar (the end numbers might change when you download it.)
- Double-click on that file.
- You should see a window similar to this:
- Double-click on the down arrow. In the next screen, choose the components to be installed:
- Click the Install button to install all the components. Make sure you have selected Android and iOS.
- After a successful installation, you should see this:
- Now, you can click Done to exit and start Visual Studio for Mac to launch the IDE:
Visual Studio for Mac