Item: Xamarin
Rating: 8
Author: amar khan

Overall Satisfaction with Xamarin

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Xamarin to develop cross-platform apps for taxi aggregation app in android, windows and IOS. It is used by my project team including android, IOS and Windows people to create applications in single code base, and it helped us to write quality code that runs consistently on different platorms

Pros and Cons

Pros

It allows us to develop apps using single codebase which runs on different platforms.

Cons

They need to work in providing quality support to customer queries

Return on Investment

It had very positive impact on our product, such as faster development and faster release

Alternatives Considered

Cordova

Xamarin is a good platform compared to Cordova, as it gives better API access, documentation and customer support as well as a robust community. It allows you to develop code using native Visual Studio and helps the developer to reuse the codebase for different platforms, versus Apache Cordova.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited when you have a single codebase, tight deadlines for the product release, and you have less developers to tackle the problems that can occur in testing and release level. It is less appropriate in situations where you want apps like system-level tasks which may not be allowed by Xamarin