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Advantages of Xamarin over other Platforms

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Xamarin Native Advantages Over Xamarin.Forms. Xamarin Native includes Android/iOS/Windows platforms, which use C# code as back-end, and provide an easy and effective way to develop mobile applications by using Visual Studio or Xamarin Studio.

Xamarin Native Advantages Over Xamarin.Forms

Initially Xamarin was not free but nowadays the developers will use it for free and develop native applications with C# back-end code, using Xamarin platform. Later, Xamarin.Forms comes into the picture and it is very useful to develop mobile applications on different platforms. Why Xamarin Framework is more Popular. Xamarin has fast caught up as a cross-platform leader and seems to be the best alternative when it comes to creating a single application. What remains to be seen is whether it can work equally well when it comes to building more than one application. Can it do justice to your mobile strategy in such a scenario? While native development is also an option, it doesn’t really help in all cases where the code has to be duplicated for additional platforms.

Developers and businesses alike believe that Xamarin offers the best of both worlds – it provides almost native user experience, around 95 percent or more code can be reused and has a growing community comprising over 700,000 Xamarin mobile app developers. But before you set your heart on Xamarin for cross-platform app development, take a closer look at the five most important advantages of Xamarin platform. Xamarin - Xamarin and the Universal Windows Platform. If you use Xamarin to target iOS and Android, you know about the benefits of developing for multiple platforms using one programming language and shared code.

Xamarin - Xamarin and the Universal Windows Platform

You also know about the benefits of using Xamarin.Forms to reuse your UI across Android and iOS while retaining the freedom to take advantage of unique platform capabilities. What you might not be aware of is that you can use these same tools to target the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), reach more than 400 million devices, and increase downloads and engagement across iOS and Android devices at the same time. Why Target the UWP? Why should you target your app for the UWP?

App engagement—that’s why. Introduction to Xamarin. At the time of writing this post, there are two popular platforms taking over the market, a two-horse race between iOS and Android.

Introduction to Xamarin

The two mobile operating systems combined for 98.4 percent worldwide market share in the fourth calendar quarter of 2015, compared to 96.4 percent in the year-ago quarter according to research firm Gartner. For instance, when I want to check my Facebook or twitter account, I personally prefer checking it from their official mobile app rather than navigating to the site, yes believe it or not, mobile applications are taking over the web world.

Cool, as a technology enthusiast or even as a company that would like to promote itself or a product/service in the market, we have to follow this trend, but we have to play it smart, how? Now following this approach, they will end up with the following cons: .Net Framework or .Net Core? When to use which. Realm Mobile Platform Supports Xamarin, Microsoft Azure. News Realm Mobile Platform Supports Xamarin, Microsoft Azure Realm today announced new support for Microsoft technologies in its Realm Mobile Platform, which, having hit version 1.0 just last month, facilitates the creation of real-time mobile apps.

Realm Mobile Platform Supports Xamarin, Microsoft Azure

The big news is that the company's mobile platform now fully supports Xamarin, Microsoft's tooling for creating cross-platform, native mobile apps with one code base written in C#. Xamarin was a prominent cross-platform solution that was acquired by Microsoft about a year ago. Xamarin App Dev Conversations @ Ignite - Telerik Developer Network. 28,000 people.

Xamarin App Dev Conversations @ Ignite - Telerik Developer Network

That could very easily be the entire population of a small town. Microsoft’s Ignite conference in Orlando this Fall quite casually attracted 28K attendees – let’s just say it was a huge event.