We performed a comparison between IBM MobileFirst and Xamarin Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about OutSystems, Mendix, Salesforce and others in Mobile Development Platforms."I like Its capability for developing hybrid applications, with an ability to integrate device-native code as well"
"IBM MobileFirst has one of the most feature-rich admin panels."
"With help of this product, we have been able to develop mobile applications without having complete knowledge of each mobile OS's native programming technology. App development, delivery, and code management have been very efficient using this product."
"It brings about good code sharing strategies, which bring down cost and maintenance efforts."
"Xamarin.Forms exposes a complete cross-platform UI toolkit for .NET developers. The advantage is that a single team can target multiple platforms (Android, iOS, and Windows) on a shared C# codebase."
"Xamarin Platform enables you to use a single code language. This is beneficial for Android, iOS, and Windows platforms, so they can be developed over application or built over application."
"Xamarin Platform's best features are its single codebase, the support from Microsoft, and the free libraries."
"The most valuable feature of the Xamarin Platform is that both the UI are the same in Android and iOS, in one project and Android and iOS, are applications for developing PCL projects. Additionally, the dashboard is good."
"It usually saves time for application development. We write once and the code works everywhere."
"On the market, compared to everyone else, they're the top solution. They're the best solution out there that I could see."
"For me, developing apps for iOS and Android is a dream came true, without migrating to Objective-C or Java. Xamarin enables me to do so."
"There are issues with push notifications, especially for Windows mobile apps. JSONStore also crashes abruptly at times."
"I would like to see improved support for native device functions."
"The major I see with Xamarin right now is that there is no visual editor"
"We have noticed that there have been stability-based performance issues with this product, which need to be improved."
"Xamarin Platform is missing the code renderer."
"From time to time, it is a bit harder to code some specific scenarios compared to the native approach."
"Xamarin Platform's performance base could be improved."
"The solution does not include Hot Reload which is painful because it causes us to wait quite some time for huge builds."
"For those who use only XAML to design the UI, it would be better if there was a better XAML previewer or designer."
"There is room for increasing the scale a little bit further with the designer in the Visual Studio, more specifically, Xamarin.Android Designer in Visual Studio."
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IBM MobileFirst is ranked 14th in Mobile Development Platforms while Xamarin Platform is ranked 4th in Mobile Development Platforms with 39 reviews. IBM MobileFirst is rated 8.4, while Xamarin Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM MobileFirst writes "It provides access management for the enterprise user as well as for the consumer". 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". IBM MobileFirst is most compared with IBM MaaS360, Ionic, Microsoft Azure App Service and SAP Mobile Platform, whereas Xamarin Platform is most compared with Ionic, Appium, Apple Xcode, OutSystems and Mendix.
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