Chose Xamarin
I really loved Apache Flex, but it fell behind and seems to be going away.
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| Considered Both Products |  Xamarin  Duy Mai IT Project Leader Chose Xamarin Android Studio and IOS SDK are some of the competing programming methods for mobile development that competes with Xamarin. However, these utilize other programming languages like Java, or Objective C. In addition, these methods may be used more directly with Android or IOS …  Florence Birgen IT Manager Chose Xamarin We use both Xamarin and React Native to create cross-platform applications fast. React Native is relatively new at our company and few developers have embraced coding in it as compared to developers building in Xamarin. I have noticed developers have it easy jumping from coding …  Kyle Kochtan Technical Lead Chose Xamarin Xamarin allows us to natively code against IOS and Android as opposed to just putting a Skin over it. Because of this native code stack the performance on Xamarin is off the charts better. You can really see the performance when you are using native phone features like GPS, …  Markus Hopfenspirger Geschäftsführer Chose Xamarin As I said before: Code sharing and using existing skills was the most important factor to choose Xamarin. With phonegap code sharing exists but business logic must be written in JS.  Patrick Steger Owner Chose Xamarin Coming from a .NET background I always wanted to like Xamarin. Now that Microsoft bought them and made the product available to all, it's a no brainer.  Siya Ul Haqu Director Chose Xamarin In Native app development we need to employ specialized developers solving some business problems in different technologies. Xamarin solves that problem to some extent delivering a native application experience. Hybrid has the same code base but suffers from lack of performance.  David McCann Senior Software Engineer Chose Xamarin  Calvin Fisher Director of Product Development Chose Xamarin 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.  Jordan Max Software Developer Chose Xamarin Apache Cordova is nothing more than a HTML Web VIew App. I've built an app using Cordova and it was a mess. With Xamarin, you get the platform level capabilities, which make the performance, in theory, no different than real native development. Cordova is not suitable for any … |
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| Small Businesses |  Swiftify Score 9.0 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies | Swiftify Score 9.0 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | Swiftify Score 9.0 out of 10 |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 7.0 (12 ratings) |
| Likelihood to Renew | 10.0 (1 ratings) |
| Usability | 10.0 (1 ratings) |
| Support Rating | 10.0 (2 ratings) |
| Implementation Rating | 10.0 (1 ratings) |
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