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That's why it exploded in popularity then? Literally exploded and was releasing on a rapid cadence to a fervorous developer base. The current non-MAUI Xamarin i
by datavirtue 6y ago
That's why it exploded in popularity then? Literally exploded and was releasing on a rapid cadence to a fervorous developer base. The current non-MAUI Xamarin is very refined and complete from a performance and feature perspective. It is literally the only viable serious cross-platform and mobile development platform.
- JamesSwift 6y agoIts important to distinguish between Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Native (which Forms is built on top of). Xamarin.Native is quite nice and is the best abstraction available today (in my opinion). Xamarin.Forms is indeed not great. It is an OK solution for a subset of problems, but even for those I'm left wondering if the pain is worth it rather than rolling my own native frontends in Xamarin.Native.
- wsc981 6y agoXamarin.Forms might not be great if you want to create a beautiful app that performs very smoothly, but it’s pretty sweet for making multiplatform business apps for use in-house (as in: not sold on app stores) imo.
- JamesSwift 6y agoRight, internal apps are the sort of thing I think fall in the 'subset of problems' its good for, but as soon as you have a design guide to adhere to (i.e. you aren't just shipping the out-of-the-box configurations) its buggy and painful.