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March 19, 2019
Xamarin for cross-platform mobile applications
Xamarin is used by our product development team to create Android and iOS mobile applications. With Xamarin we can create cross platform mobile applications fast and easy without leaving the Visual Studio environment. It’s convenient because it allows us code applications using C# programming while taking advantage of Visual Studio debugging tools. We are pleased with Xamarin so far.
- Allows development of cross-platform mobile applications in C# language without the need to learning new languages.
- Access to Visual studio debugging tools
- It's free and has a growing community
- Allows use of Visual studio IDE
- Occasional crashing of the application
- Online community still growing. Less documentation online
- Experienced problems with Code signing and deployment with IOS
- 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
- React
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 in C# straight to Xamarin than JavaScript coders transition to react Native.
April 04, 2017
Xamarin - Sometimes Worth It
As an independent consultant, I use Xamarin with many small companies. Often, they bring me on in the early stages to evaluate and recommend improvements to their mobile strategy. Xamarin addresses the business problem of speed and resources. With Xamarin, you can develop mobile apps faster as well as utilizing existing resources. Some companies may have existing .NET developers in which case Xamarin fits well and the learning curve of mobile is less because of the familiarity with .NET.
- 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.
- Having also done a lot of native mobile development, some of the IDE's features need to emulator their native counterparts. For example, trying to extract a string resource on Android in Xamarin Studio is painful. There are many useful tools in Android Studio that Xamarin should implement.
- Xamarin will always be behind on native platform features. They must catch up when Apple and Google release new platform versions.
- The biggest pain point is the random issues Xamarin continues to have. Having a large code base on top of a native platform makes it very difficult to debug issues. Every developer must decide if its an issue with Xamarin or the native platform. Bugs don't get fixed very quickly. Hopefully that will change with the Microsoft acquisition.
- Since Xamarin makes it easier to share code, I have had several projects with very complex business logic that I didn't have to write twice. This means I can ship code faster and with less issues. Usually, with a small company, there are less QA resources which means fewer codes changes is better.
- I have had several show stopper issues that I've spent days debugging only to find out that the Xamarin platform has an issue. There are so many headaches when developing that there are times I wish I hadn't used Xamarin. This causes missed deadlines debugging transient issues with little or no resources to find help.
- React
April 04, 2017
Xamarin - DEFINITELY worth the try
We use Xamarin for cross-platform development. We like the idea of a code base sharing between platforms. Our apps are either built with Xamarin, or will be built with Xamarin. The problems it addresses is the amount of time and money it costs to have two full native applications.
- Code sharing - I mean, you can do the work in half the time. Great way to release to multiple markets without having to write code twice.
- Robust - Basically anything you need on the OS level is available.
- Intuitive - Xamarin gives you the capability of a code share project, and then platform specific projects. You can communicate between the two and it makes it very nice to develop in.
- 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.
- Code Sharing - We were able to launch an Android implementation of our app within weeks after finishing iOS. The amount of time taken to develop a new platform is very small.
- Monetization - not the best, but definitely getting better. We've had issues with finding suitable ad networks that work with 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 non-simple app.