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Its 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
by JamesSwift 6y ago
Its 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.