App Builder by Infragistics vs. Xamarin

Xamarin

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
App Builder	Score 7.1 out of 10	N/A	App Builder - Design and Build Real Apps Fast The brand-new App Builder aims to provide design and development teams with a solution to help them deliver apps quickly and efficiently, without losing focus on UX. Users can start an app from scratch or choose from a library of pre-built app templates or responsive screen layouts and then customize with a toolbox of 60+ UI controls to kick-start the next digital product design. If a design already exists in Sketch or Adobe…	$1,295 per year per user
Xamarin	Score 6.9 out of 10	N/A	N/A	N/A

Pricing

App Builder by Infragistics

Xamarin

Editions & Modules

Ignite UI: $1,295
per year per user
Infragistics Professional: $1,295
per year per user
Infragistics Ultimate: $1,495
per year per user

Xamarin: Free

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
App Builder	Xamarin
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

This product is free to use for non-commercial, educational purposes for students in K-12 grades or University programs, and for educators to use in a classroom setting as examples/tools in their curriculum.

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Community Pulse
	App Builder by Infragistics	Xamarin
Top Pros	Pro Good design	Pro Visual studio Pro Cross platform Pro Native application
Top Cons	Minus Visual studio code Minus No support Minus Different views	Minus Native platform Minus Catch up Minus Drag and drop

Features

App Builder by Infragistics

Xamarin

Low-Code Development

Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Product A and Product B
	App Builder by Infragistics 6.4 3 Ratings 30% below category average	Xamarin - Ratings
Visual Modeling	7.12 Ratings	00 Ratings
Drag-and-drop Interfaces	7.83 Ratings	00 Ratings
Reusability	7.12 Ratings	00 Ratings
Platform Scalability	3.61 Ratings	00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	App Builder by Infragistics	Xamarin
Likelihood to Recommend	7.1 (5 ratings)	7.0 (12 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	5.5 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (4 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	App Builder by Infragistics	Xamarin
Likelihood to Recommend	Infragistics App Builder will be great where you have a small team with limited resources. Obviously this product is only good if you are starting a new project. I have used Radzen before which does almost the same thing using a database first approach, but it was a real pain as the application crashes a lot. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft If you are required to develop applications that are cross-platformed, Xamarin is a great tool to use. It will help save time and effort from your development team to be able to build applications seamlessly for android, IOS, Windows, and web on a single platform instead of requiring multiple tools to get the job done. Incentivized Duy Mai IT Project Leader Read full review
Pros	Infragistics Layout Theme and Styles Code Generation MV matt vaughn Angular Architect Read full review	Microsoft Xamarin allows you to write cross platform code. This allows companies to build apps more quickly by writing less code. Having code abstracted and reused across multiple platforms allows for more testing and less issues overall. The ability to use Visual Studio is a huge plus. Visual Studio is one of the best IDE's available and being able to write cross platforms apps while in a great IDE makes everything less painful. Xamarin is now free with a large company backing. This means that bugs on the platform get fixed more quickly and there is a large community of developers. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Infragistics Data interface (web services) Documentation Incentivized AC Alejandro Castrejon Consultant Read full review	Microsoft Forms - not 100% there. Still needs work but is production ready. iOS - sometimes errors can be hard to understand, if they even show up. Insights - Xamarin offers their own crash analytics software. However, it's not perfect and sometimes doesn't pick up crashes. Incentivized Jordan Max Software Developer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Infragistics No answers on this topic	Microsoft Xamarin has been great for developing different projects efficiently and effectively. It's nice to reuse the core business logic across different platforms so that there are less to maintain and little replications are needed. The biggest benefit is that C# programmers do not have to learn a different language to do mobile development. Incentivized Duy Mai IT Project Leader Read full review
Usability	Infragistics No answers on this topic	Microsoft If you are required to develop applications that are cross-platformed, Xamarin is a great tool to use. It will help save time and efforts from your development team to be able to build applications seamlessly for android, IOS, windows, and web on a single platform instead of requiring multiple tools to get the job done Incentivized Duy Mai IT Project Leader Read full review
Support Rating	Infragistics No answers on this topic	Microsoft I never had to contact support for any help. Most of the problems we ran into, we were able to identify and use peer support through blogs and other internet sources to resolve the problems. There are plenty of sources online which provide tutorials, discuss problems, etc. Example: StackOverflow Incentivized Duy Mai IT Project Leader Read full review
Implementation Rating	Infragistics No answers on this topic	Microsoft Just with any programming tasks, have a plan first. Design out the system, spend time to build it correctly the first time and have plenty of testing and user acceptance opportunities. Xamarin was easy to implement for a C# programmer. However, you need to do tutorials to realize the platform's capabilities. Incentivized Duy Mai IT Project Leader Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Infragistics They're different products. for grid design maybe Balsamiq is a bit better. Incentivized GB Giovanni Baldo Read full review	Microsoft Xamarin runs natively on MacOS, and the debugger and other integration and auto-complete tools are far better than Eclipse for C# .NET. It also carries much of the plugin/add-on capabilities that are so desirable on Atom. Eclipse is a better for generalized software development, provided a developer is comfortable switching between the IDE the command line for certain parts of their workflow, like building, package management, or debugging. But for C# .NET development on MacOS specifically, Xamarin is the best product I've used for the job. Incentivized David McCann Senior Software Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	Infragistics + Allowed for fast design and mock ups + Allowed for efficient asset delivery to development team + allows for revisions and updates; with code generation MV matt vaughn Angular Architect Read full review	Microsoft Saves development time and deliver fast. Allows inhouse developers build both Android and iOS application without switching languages. Allows use coding in C# in Visual studio IDE from which we can code in different languages. We don't need multiple IDEs installed Incentivized Florence Birgen IT Manager Read full review
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