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You're going to call me crazy. But using Xamarin to develop Android apps in C# via Visual Studio is seriously a better experience than using the Android Studio
by 2bitencryption 10y ago
You're going to call me crazy. But using Xamarin to develop Android apps in C# via Visual Studio is seriously a better experience than using the Android Studio. At least, that's been my experience with simple personal projects -- perhaps if you are Facebook or Instagram that's not the case.
The API is almost the same, sure. But things like class attributes, null-coalescing, lack of Gradle, automatically generated getters and setters which can be overloaded... I had more fun writing a personal app for fun in Xamarin than I ever did in Android Studio, which only ever frustrated me, even though I love the IDE it is based upon.
- jmkni 10y agoI've been really enjoying Xamarin Android recently. What's nice is that most of the regular Android tutorials/SO answers are easily translatable to Xamarin Android. I have found myself just leaving the word Xamarin when I google something, as the ordinary Android resources are good enough.
- h1d 10y agoWant to hear others' overall experience on Xamarin too. It looked like it's just a middle ground that does neither as good as the native solutions. Was hoping MS will accelerate it to be more competitive.