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Xamarin is a good mobile devlopment patform for me
Pros
- Writing in C#
- Uses Visual Studio
- Shared code base (99%)
Cons
- I wish it would deploy and debug faster
- The Apple connection is a bit tenuous occasionaly
- The Xamarin forms updates can get really painful
Most Important Features
- Shared code
- Mobile deployment
Return on Investment
- managing DevOps for a smaller team takes longer than I would like
- One IDE and dev process for all of mobile
Alternatives Considered
Apache Flex (formerly Adobe Flex)
Other Software Used
Visual Studio IDE, Atom
Try Xamarin - It's worth a shot
Pros
- Layouts that can be bind to
- Great community that can provide plenty of code samples and exchanges of ideas
- Provide the ability to share code between various platform such as mobile - Android, iOS, Windows, and web
Cons
- Similarly to Silverlight or WinForms, if Xamarin had the ability to drag and drop in the Designer, it would be great.
- The ability to auto translate some of the common native calls from different platform would also be amazing to see.
- Also more help syntax auto resolving abilities is needed. I had to spend a lot of time resolving errors when importing an open source project to try out.
Return on Investment
- Allows teams to program cross platform environment using skill sets they may already have with C#. No need to learn a brand new language.
- Using Xamarin will simplify support and maintenance for your team.
- Allows codes to be shared across platform, saving time and money.
Other Software Used
Microsoft Office 365, KeePass, Oracle VM VirtualBox
Usability
Xamarin for cross-platform mobile applications
Pros
- Allows development of cross-platform mobile applications in C# language without the need to learning new languages.
- Access to Visual studio debugging tools
- It's free and has a growing community
- Allows use of Visual studio IDE
Cons
- Occasional crashing of the application
- Online community still growing. Less documentation online
- Experienced problems with Code signing and deployment with IOS
Return on Investment
- Saves development time and deliver fast.
- Allows inhouse developers build both Android and iOS application without switching languages.
- Allows use coding in C# in Visual studio IDE from which we can code in different languages. We don't need multiple IDEs installed
Alternatives Considered
React
Other Software Used
React, PostgreSQL, Drupal
Cross platform development in Xamarin
Pros
- Write once - use multiple places
- Robust 3rd party add-ons for most functioanlity
- Prompt support and assistance when needed
Cons
- My only issues really stem from the IOS side, but those are not necessarily Xamarin's issues
- Needing to connect to IOS machine
- Code signing and deployment with IOS is very cumbersome
Return on Investment
- As Xamarin is a free plug in our ROI has been fantastic
- We were looking at hiring 2 companies to develop IOS and Android
- We were able to use in house developers to create both apps in almost have the time for less than half the cost
Alternatives Considered
Adobe Phone Gap
Other Software Used
Visual Studio IDE, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office 2016
Mobile cross platform develpoment with Xamarin saves time and money
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.
Return on Investment
- 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.
Alternatives Considered
native coding and phonegapp
Other Software Used
Telerik, Team Foundation Server, Trello, Slack