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Unless I'm wrong, the only listed alternatives are both paid and closed source. Xamarin (requires VS Pro) or Appcelerate (requires $480-$1200/year/developer).

by dahdum 10y ago

matwood 10y ago
I believe Xamarin is now free post the MS acquisition with various parts and pieces even becoming open source: https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-for-all/ https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-for-all/
- dahdum 10y ago
  I was actually looking here: https://store.xamarin.com/ https://store.xamarin.com/ Apparently the free version has usage restrictions? I do consider free w/ Visual Studio Pro license not really free. EDIT: The licensing pages are confusing but you're right, my mistake.
  - romanovcode 10y ago
    No, it's completely free with VS Community (which is also free). And you don't have to pay if your company has 5 or less people working on it. You also have to pay if you have 250+ computers/people employed or your revenue is 1m+/year. Sounds pretty reasonable to me.
cornflake 10y ago
Most of the Appcelerator community i'm in touch with use the free Titanium builds instead of paying for an Appcelerator license: http://builds.appcelerator.com.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#master http://builds.appcelerator.com.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#m... Titanium has always been a pretty advanced product however ever since Appcelerator introduced it's licensing/arrow stuff, Titanium (and Alloy) uptake seems to have fallen off a cliff.
SomeCallMeTim 10y ago
Others have mentioned Xamarin is free and (mostly? entirely?) open source now. See also NativeScript [1]. And TypeScript solves 80% of his complaints. A good linter with ruleset hits most of the remaining 20%. Cross-platform is the way to go in 2016. It's a waste to write in Swift and Java to cover two platforms. [1] http://nativescript.com/ http://nativescript.com/
oblio 10y ago
Xamarin is now both free and Open Source.

Unless I'm wrong, the only listed alternatives are both paid and closed source. Xamarin (requires VS Pro) or Appcelerate (requires $480-$1200/year/developer).

by dahdum 10y ago

Unless I'm wrong, the only listed alternatives are both paid and closed source. Xamarin (requires VS Pro) or Appcelerate (requires $480-$1200/year/developer).

matwood 10y ago

I believe Xamarin is now free post the MS acquisition with various parts and pieces even becoming open source: https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-for-all/ https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-for-all/

dahdum 10y ago
I was actually looking here: https://store.xamarin.com/ https://store.xamarin.com/ Apparently the free version has usage restrictions? I do consider free w/ Visual Studio Pro license not really free. EDIT: The licensing pages are confusing but you're right, my mistake.
- romanovcode 10y ago
  No, it's completely free with VS Community (which is also free). And you don't have to pay if your company has 5 or less people working on it. You also have to pay if you have 250+ computers/people employed or your revenue is 1m+/year. Sounds pretty reasonable to me.

cornflake 10y ago

Most of the Appcelerator community i'm in touch with use the free Titanium builds instead of paying for an Appcelerator license: http://builds.appcelerator.com.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#master http://builds.appcelerator.com.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#m... Titanium has always been a pretty advanced product however ever since Appcelerator introduced it's licensing/arrow stuff, Titanium (and Alloy) uptake seems to have fallen off a cliff.

SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

Others have mentioned Xamarin is free and (mostly? entirely?) open source now. See also NativeScript [1]. And TypeScript solves 80% of his complaints. A good linter with ruleset hits most of the remaining 20%. Cross-platform is the way to go in 2016. It's a waste to write in Swift and Java to cover two platforms. [1] http://nativescript.com/ http://nativescript.com/

oblio 10y ago

Xamarin is now both free and Open Source.