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The only way to do mobile development
April 17, 2017

The only way to do mobile development

Calvin Fisher | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Xamarin

I've been using Xamarin for 100% of my mobile work since 2012. In my current organization, we have a Xamarin mobile app for nearly all of our projects.
  • Sharing code with other parts of an application, including backend and web
  • Not having to re-write the same application multiple times
  • Not having to maintain multiple versions of the same application in parallel (features, bugfixes, etc.)
  • Getting to use C# and all of its wonderful features for mobile development
  • Xamarin could provide more recognition and support to those of us who have been with them since the beginning
  • Half the cost to develop apps for both iOS and Android
  • Half the cost (or less) in developer hours for bugfixes and maintenance across two platforms
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.
I've introduced Xamarin to multiple organizations. Unless you have engineers who insist on not knowing C#, there are rarely any instances where it's not the best choice.