Has anyone used the new Visual Studio with Xamarin studio built in to build mobile apps? I was doing some research for my senior (we are thinking of going mobile), and wanted to see what the community thought of it. What do you guys think?

Not the 'new one's but my bachelor thesis was about cross platform development and I've written a lot about xamarin and xamarin forms. It's really nice but not as easy as one would think. Even if the sample app was a simple app I had to do quite a lot of platform specific code - on the other hand I think that could be because I wasn't that experienced with coding as I am now.