Xamarin is a good mobile devlopment patform for me
July 30, 2021

Xamarin is a good mobile devlopment patform for me

Will Singer | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Xamarin

We use Xamarin for all of our mobile app development. Like working in C# and in Visual Studio.

Using Xamarin with Visual Studio allows us to create mobile apps without learning a new IDE or tool. It does make publishing a little more complex than I think it should be, but that's just my opinion.
  • Writing in C#
  • Uses Visual Studio
  • Shared code base (99%)
  • I wish it would deploy and debug faster
  • The Apple connection is a bit tenuous occasionaly
  • The Xamarin forms updates can get really painful
  • Shared code
  • Mobile deployment
  • managing DevOps for a smaller team takes longer than I would like
  • One IDE and dev process for all of mobile
I really loved Apache Flex, but it fell behind and seems to be going away.

Do you think Xamarin delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Xamarin's feature set?

Yes

Did Xamarin live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Xamarin go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Xamarin again?

Yes

Xamarin is well suited for mobile app development. It's nice to share almost all of our code between Apple and Android as well as between phones and tablets. We have our own PC tool, I don't use it for PC or Mac development but would like to go there with some shared code at some point.