We performed a comparison between Mendix and Xamarin Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Mobile Development Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The development environment is model-driven. We can use the information from this for our business engineers to make the information models, and they can also execute the model."
"What I like best about Mendix is that it's leading the way for low-code, no-code platforms compared to other solutions in the market."
"The most valuable features are the integration and UI customization."
"The user experience is great."
"It is a brilliant solution."
"The most valuable features are the decorative style, model-driven development, and the fact that Mendix validates flows. Mendix is quick to develop because it's a low-code platform. It's very robust, flexible, open, and scalable. It's for a low-code customer. The tooling is also really good and it has mobile capabilities."
"It is a development platform which assists in accelerating your developmental lifecycle. This is one of its most valuable features. This solution also offers a good set of components that are readily available."
"There is a free version of the solution you can use."
"Plugins like MvvmCross make a developer’s life easy."
"It brings about good code sharing strategies, which bring down cost and maintenance efforts."
"The solution is easy to understand and has banking integrated. The shorter development time, the bugging and as well as availability of a lot of documentation on the web. Also the native integration is easy."
"The most valuable features are: One language for all platforms: C#; XAML for UI in Xamarin.Forms; provides 100 percent coverage of APIs on each platform."
"This solution is a cross-form technology, meaning that we don't have to create separate code to deploy apps across different platforms."
"Cross-platform development saves time and provides consistencies."
"The platform is easy to learn as many tutorials are available on YouTube."
"Xamarin.Forms are very useful. Essentially, it's a framework that allows me to create the UI mostly in XAML. This XAML code is then translated into the native UI elements for each respective platform."
"Overall, integration with the enterprise ecosystem needs improvement."
"One thing I would like to improve is the support system offered by Mendix. It can sometimes take a while to get the help I need when I'm using Mendix."
"I struggle with solutions like Mendix in terms of creating enterprise solutions."
"An improvement I would like to see is the ability to version manage independent modules. Their version management for software repositories must be better. It's good and you can do it, but it needs work."
"Mendix is slightly less scalable than I'd like."
"While the documentation is good, the development box could be better."
"It could use a more comprehensive widget creation studio in the IDE."
"The platform still has many areas for improvement. If I compare apples to apples, the PWA features of Mendix could be improved, for example, I wouldn't recommend creating a B2C or B2B marketplace or web portals on Mendix, but there's a tendency for people to still do it through the systems provided by my company, particularly implement B2B or B2C marketplace, versus using eBay or Shopify. On the web portal front, Mendix still needs to improve."
"They need to take a step towards independence from the UI platform. It takes a lot of time to adapt the native controls."
"For those who use only XAML to design the UI, it would be better if there was a better XAML previewer or designer."
"Xamarin Platform's performance base could be improved."
"It needs offline sync capabilities to store data on devices persistently."
"The problem that I faced was that the communication, the roles, and the responsibilities, weren't defined between Microsoft and Xamarin."
"I feel that the Android AppCompat library creates a lot of issues. A lot of development time is often wasted solving these issues."
"The android application compilation time needs to be reduced."
"The application platform could be improved."
Mendix is ranked 2nd in Mobile Development Platforms with 48 reviews while Xamarin Platform is ranked 4th in Mobile Development Platforms with 39 reviews. Mendix is rated 8.4, while Xamarin Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Mendix writes "Low-code, helpful support, and great native mobile capability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Xamarin Platform writes "It's about to be retired and replaced with an inferior product, but offers excellent cross-platform development capabilities". Mendix is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Oracle Application Express (APEX), Appian and ServiceNow, whereas Xamarin Platform is most compared with Ionic, Appium, OutSystems, Apple Xcode and Tricentis Tosca. See our Mendix vs. Xamarin Platform report.
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