Xamarin Reviews & Insights

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.

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.

The product development team was building a cross-platform endpoint security product in C# .NET and all used MacBook Pros, so Xamarin was the IDE of choice. It addressed the problem of being able to develop the Linux and Mac versions of the product without having to have a Linux VM for Linux development and also made it possible to develop the cross-platform portions of the software natively on their Macs, rather than using a Windows VM. Only Windows-specific development and testing needed to be done within a VM. As a product development startup, all but one employee used Xamarin.

Xamarin is definitely the best product to use for C# .NET programming on MacOS; for other uses it may not be the best IDE: different languages, different platforms, etc.

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.

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.

We use Xamarin for cross-platform development. We like the idea of a code base sharing between platforms. Our apps are either built with Xamarin, or will be built with Xamarin. The problems it addresses is the amount of time and money it costs to have two full native applications.

Xamarin is great for any scenario, even if you don't utilize Xamarin Forms, which is the code sharing capability. But even if you just utilized the platform specific code, it's still all in C#. Makes it easy to not only maintain, but later hire developers who might not have any Xamarin experience to be able to come on board quickly and make an effect.