Appium vs Xamarin

Appium

Appium is well suited for native, mobile web, and hybrid applications of android and iOS but it does not support Windows mobile applications.

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Deva Veluchamy

Test Automation Lead/Consultant

Aspire SystemsComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Xamarin

Xamarin is definitely the best product to use for C# .NET programming on MacOS; for other uses it may not be the best IDE: different languages, different platforms, etc.

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David McCann

Senior Software Engineer

Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) at the United Nations FoundationComputer & Network Security, 11-50 employees

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Pros

Best part is that it's an open-source tool.
Supports multiple mobile platforms.
It supports native apps, mobile web & hybrid applications of both Android and iOS.
It is based on Selenium using HTTP protocols.
It supports most of the scripting languages like Java, Ruby, Java script, etc.
It can be integrated with CI tools.

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Deva Veluchamy

Test Automation Lead/Consultant

Aspire SystemsComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Built into Visual Studio
Free
Cross platform

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Patrick Steger

Owner

IDMA SolutionsComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Cons

It should provide reliable & promising executions every time, without any interruptions
Avoid any synchronization issues
Supporting to Windows mobile applications also in future.

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Deva Veluchamy

Test Automation Lead/Consultant

Aspire SystemsComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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teaching a Microsoft developers who has no experience in mobile application development is a challenge
Should be simpler for deployment to devices.

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Siya Ul Haqu

Director

Headfitted Solutions Pvt LtdComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

If you're an Apple developer, you use Xcode. It's practically a forced necessity. For system testing though, it doesn't have to be. You can have your development team focus on unit and integration tests in their platform and another team automate acceptance tests with a language they are more familiar with.

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Brian Smith

Test Engineer III

Cox AutomotiveAutomotive, 1001-5000 employees

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None of the HTML-based cross-platform solutions can easily provide a native look and feel like Xamarin can. I've had to rescue multiple organizations that went down this path only to be disappointed with the results.

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Calvin Fisher

Director of Product Development

Eight-Bot, Inc.Computer Software, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

For cost of ownership, the increase is positive times infinity, as it's free to install and use
Lead time for suite development can be a negative, if not planned for during sprint planning
Using Appium to execute tests in parallel across a cloud solution can improve CI/CD cycles by 100's of a percent

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Brian Smith

Test Engineer III

Cox AutomotiveAutomotive, 1001-5000 employees

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