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Integrated environment for building not only native Android but iOS and Windows apps too.

Create blank files, custom file types, templates, whole batches, and reusable folder setups exactly where you are working on macOS.

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Based on our record, Xamarin.Android seems to be more popular. It has been mentioned 6 times since March 2021.
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| Company | — | Startup from the United States · 1 - 9 employees · 2026 |
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CreateFiles+ adds the file creation workflow macOS should have had all along. Create a new file exactly where you are working, without opening TextEdit, saving-as, using Terminal, or dragging template files around. Use Finder right-click menus where macOS allows them, or fall back to the Finder...
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As answered by people managing Xamarin.Android and CreateFiles+.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
Xcode and Swift
CreateFiles+'s answer:
macOS should have created this feature out of the box but does not exist. Windows users have had this feature for over a decade. I created this to remove that gap for macOS users.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
I am not familiar with any competitors doing this today.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
Power Users, Developers, Productivity focused users, students, teachers, creators.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
Its brand new so that is yet to be determined.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
I have struggled with not having this capability in Finder for years and decided I would fix the problem for me and then see if other users would want the same solution.
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Take a look at https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/mobile. It will allow you to write Android apps in C# in Visual Studio. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
> It's not hardware. So now are kernel extensions also “applications”? > VSCode is an app that needs the .NET runtime, in order to run the code you write in e.g. C#. You could not possibly be more wrong. VSCode is written in Typescript.... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago
Ah, so C# (and .NET) does have its answer to Qt, point taken. Source: over 4 years ago
Tracking CreateFiles+ since Jun 2026.
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