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I think at the moment we don't need to use Xamarin.

What I interpret from what DanCooper said, he plans to have a base WPF application running on Windows, and later adding web / mobile interfaces to it so you can talk to Ember Media Manager using your phone, but still having the windows application running on your PC.

We would only need WPF using C# with .NET to do that.

However, if we really needed Xamarin (for example, to build the mobile application using c#, and to have mac / linux versions, etc.), open source projects can apply for a free license: http://resources.xamarin.com/open-source...butor.html

Yes I Agree! Developing in Visual studio like we did before will be sufficient for Ember I think. I don't think its planned to develop an apk/Android application for Ember. I think what Dan meant was to create an API/JSON Interface of Ember that other projects (maybe then a small android application) can use to control Ember? But for that to work I guess Ember needs to be publish an Webservice?! I don't have any idea on how to do this

As for Ember 1.5: I have experience in XAML design since I created the GUI (creating style dictionary, usercontrols and such) of some applications based on VB.NET/WPF. I didn't develop/participate at the viewmodel design part though so it will be something new for me too! Like msavazzi said - XAML can be really hard to debug. Most XAML designer I know, develop XAMLs using a simple texteditor, that means no more click and drop like we can in Windows Forms projects (I tried with Xpression Blend but it's a mess for me, like WYSWYG Editors for HTML). But I will help since Ember is such a great project and learning developing in WPF will be rewarding