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more accurately: Microsoft now lets Xamarin developers deploy, run and test their iOS apps on Windows

• H1Supreme 9y ago
  Yeah, they left that part off didn't they? Xamarin != Native iOS.
  • hkmurakami 9y ago
    Yep convenient ommissions = marketing
  • marcosscriven 9y ago
    How is Xamarin not native? It's compiled right, not some web view hybrid?
    • xamcb 9y ago
      Yes, Xamarin produces a compiled executable, as you would get in Swift or Objective-C. It is not a web view hybrid. I work for Microsoft
  • UK-AL 9y ago
    It is native code.
  • balls187 9y ago
    By Native iOS you mean not written in Objective-C/Swift using Cocoa Touch
    • starik36 9y ago
      Xamarin uses Cocoa Touch. It gets compiled to the same thing as something written in Swift. So definitely iOS Native.
      • mihaela 9y ago
        Not really the same thing...
        • UK-AL 9y ago
          I believe the cococa touch API is exposed like for like in xamarin.
          • starik36 9y ago
            You are correct. They actually have a tool that scans the Cocoa libraries and generates API bindings for Xamarin to use. Source: Miguel De Icaza on the .NET Rocks podcast.