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Xamarin - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Xamarin - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Xamarin Architecture
Xamarin architecture consists of visual design platform to develop native like
applications, testing suites, native library support and a nugget style
component store. Recently i OS visual design have also been provided
through their IDE for helping developers from requiring opening X-Code.
LINQ can be used with collections as well as create custom delegates and
events that free developers from Objective-C and Java limitations.
Advantages
Xamarin aims to be the framework that can cover all major mobile platforms-
iOS, Android and Windows without compromising on quality and performance
as expected from native apps development. Well known mature
.NET framework libraries are available on Android and iOS platforms as well.
The rich features of these libraries give an added advantage to Xamarin
considering the developer view point.
Component Store
Xamarin Component Store allows adding high-quality components to your
app directly from your IDE, including UI controls, charts, graphs, web service,
beautiful themes, cloud services, APIs and more. It is integrated with Xamarin
studio and visual studio so that the components can be easily added to your
apps.
Xamarins Forms
With Xamarin Forms, interface design for all three platforms can be
accomplished within its XAML-based framework. Xamarin.Forms includes
more than 40 controls and layouts, which are mapped to native controls on
runtime.
Xamarins Edge
Heres a comparison table that shows differences between the 3
platforms
The Bad
Xamarin license cost
Conclusion
Xamarin has emerged as one of the most powerful tool for cross platform
development hence is able to reach billions of smart devices irrespective of
the platform. We recommend Xamarin as it ensures flawless building of
cross platform applications as it utilizes the power of C# and provides
wrapping of all native and iOS libraries. With no doubt we can say Xamarin
has become the The Choice for the business due to its Seamless API
Integration Capability, Easy Collaboration & Sharing, rapid development and
Cost efficiency capabilities