Mobile cross platform develpoment with Xamarin saves time and money
March 01, 2018

Mobile cross platform develpoment with Xamarin saves time and money

Markus Hopfenspirger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Xamarin

Xamarin is used to develop small mobile business apps for special customers. For example, we developed an app, where the user can download the data of customers including last service results and fill in a new service form; let the customer sign the form and send the form back to the office where it is approved and archived.

Pros

  • We save development time with Xamarin, because we use Xamarin Forms an so we can share most of the code over 3 platforms.
  • We can use our C# knowledge to develop iOS and Android Apps.
  • Xamarin's integration into Visual Studio is very good and became even better during the last releases of Visual Studio.

Cons

  • You still need a MacOS running on a Mac to debug and test and deploy the apps to Apple.
  • Very positive, because it enabled us to develop mobile apps on iOS and Android with our existing knowledge and saved a lot of development time with a bigger income.
  • native coding and phonegapp
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.
Xamarin is perfect for business apps. Developing games is probably better in native code. (But I have never developed games with xamarin.)

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