Welcome to Map Suite™ from ThinkGeo, a complete family of GIS software development kits that will help you build cutting-edge mapping and spatially aware applications. Using Map Suite's intuitive APIs, programmers who write code in C# can create professional-grade Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software featuring interactive maps, spatial analysis, geoprocessing and location, and much more. Even developers inexperienced with GIS can add fully-functional maps to their projects in just moments.

In this article, we will discuss how to install Map Suite Android Edition or higher on your computer and prepare your development environment for creating Map Suite-powered projects.

• Microsoft Windows 7 or higher
• Visual Studio 2010 Professional or higher
• Xamarin’s plug-in for Visual Studio.
• .NET Framework 4.5 or higher
• Android 4.0.3 or higher
• Xamarin plug-in is not supported by Visual Studio Express editions.
• We can develop With Xamarin Studio on a Mac machine as well. Check following for the detail.

Map Suite requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 or newer.

• Download the .NET 4.5 web installer free from Microsoft

Installing Xamarin.Android

• Mac

  This article walks through the installation steps and configuration details required to install Xamarin.Android on OS X. By the end of this article, we will have a working Xamarin.Android installation integrated into Xamarin Studio, and we’ll be ready to start building our first Xamarin.Android application. click here.

• Windows

  This guide walks through the installation steps and configuration details required to install Xamarin.Android on Windows. By the end of this article, we will have a working Xamarin.Android installation integrated into Xamarin Studio and/or Microsoft Visual Studio, and we’ll be ready to start building our first Xamarin.Android application.click here.

• Development and Device Provisioning

  Set Up Device for Development

• Set Up Device for Development

  This article will discuss how to setup an Android device and connect it to a computer so that the device may be used to run and debug Xamarin.Android applications.click here.

• Xamarin Android Player

  This guide will discuss and introduce the Xamarin Android Player, a high performance Android simulator. click here.

If the Xamarin Android Player is not available, you may have to use the stock emulators from Google. The guides in this section will discuss how to do so.

Configure the Emulator This guide discusses how to configure the default Android emulator in Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio.

Accelerating the Android Emulator This guide discuses how to use HAXM to accelerate the Google Android Emulator.

Launch the ThinkGeo Product Center application to explore the exciting world of Map Suite GIS. Each Map Suite edition ships with code samples, kick-start templates, videos and more to help you start developing your first application quickly!

Next, we recommend that you take a look at our ThinkGeo Product Center article to learn how to find your way around the Product Center application.