Xamarin Platform Reviews

We use the Xamarin Platform to develop applications. We develop mobile Android and iOS applications.

The best part while using the Xamarin Platform is a cross-platform application. We could execute iOS and Android while writing a single line of code. The most important feature of the Xamarin Platforms was this.

I believe there is already a better version in.NET MAUI. Xamarin Platform has already been shut down in the month of May 2024, according to my knowledge. Support will be discontinued in the month of May 2024.

It already has a completely new version. It has already vastly improved.

The architecture in the Xamarin Platform has to improve, there are some features missing.

There are no borders. The main thing that the Xamarin Platform lacks is a user interface. It is somewhat difficult when we are creating the UI.

Borders and sheets are two of the most important features that are missing in Xamarin. The frame is heavyweight. Sheets, nowadays, we see looking sheets on every platform and in every application. It will come from the bottom. When you finish paying, it will come from the bottom. It's similar to the system's successfully completed sheet.

I have had 15 months of experience with the Xamarin Platform.

I believe we are currently using a three to four-year-old version because this is a long-running project.

The Xamarin Platform is a stable solution.

Xamarin Platform is scalable. We can add to it.

In our company, we have approximately 20 developers.

I have never used the help of the technical support team.

In my company, the majority of the software we use is Microsoft-only, such as MVC,.NET MVC, Power Apps, PowerPoint, and Power Apps CRM. The majority of the software we use in my company are Microsoft products.

My company is 99.9% dependent on Microsoft products.

It is easy to install.

While using Visual Studio, it is easy to use the Xamarin Platform.

The time it takes to install Xamarin is dependent on the internet speed. 

We can easily install Xamarin in 30 to 40 minutes, depending on internet speed.

It is extremely quick If you have high-speed internet as well as some RAM and systems processor. It will be very fast if it has an i7 processor.

There is no requirement for a license. It is available for free as an open-source product.

If you are new to the Xamarin Platform or thinking about using it, my advice is to start with.NET MAUI instead, because Microsoft support for the Xamarin Platform will be discontinued in 2024.

.NET MAUI is a new tool and platform for developing everything.

I would rate Xamarin Platform an eight out of ten.

I am not giving it a ten, because I don't know the other languages. Flutter is a major competitor for Xamarin in mobile applications. But I'm not familiar with Flutter. That's why I'm giving it an eight.

Xamarin is a framework for creating mobile applications. It can be deployed on any device for mobile app development. I am a user of this solution. 

This is a Microsoft-supported source platform so the technical support is very good and it's close to native. It's all compiled into related code and at the same time wraps old libraries or native libraries into cross-platform libraries which is great. I do a lot of proof of concepts, and part of the reason I like Xamarin is that I'm familiar with it and know my way around which saves me a lot of time. 

Xamarin is reaching its end of life and they're moving it to .NET MAUI, combining it with other platforms and creating a centralized framework. It's a big change that's affecting a lot of the good features and something they could have done in a more user-friendly way.

I've been using this solution for six years. 

I have had times when I ran into bugs which can take some time to sort out. I found out the hard way that these bugs can often take quite some time to resolve and that's obviously not ideal.

The solution is scalable, we can vertically build on top of it.

Customer support is good. 

The deployment is fairly straightforward. Since it's backed by Microsoft, the documentation is expensive. There are MVPs working around the clock to help get you up to speed, so implementation is a breeze. It's not really a problem. In that respect, it's much better than React Native. I've deployed this on my phone. 

Xamarin is open source, so it's free. If you're planning on development within a company, it might require purchasing the commercial version.

Until relatively recently, I used this solution all day, every day, but at this stage it would not be my go-to choice and I'd now prefer Flutter or React Native. If you're starting something new and you have experience with .NET, and are already in the environment of the ecosystem, then I would say that you could potentially use Xamarin. But if you are coming from a JS perspective, then I would recommend Flutter. If you're production ready, go with Flutter or React Native. 

The solution has served me well and I rate it eight out of 10. 

Let’s take an example of a simple restaurant App which needs to be developed for each platform (iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows). Xamarin gives you the power to produce a quick proof of concept where you can use Xamarin.Forms and have your app ready within some days for each platform, using only one Xamarin developer. Otherwise, you need different native developers to have your app developed for each Platform. 

I have been using Xamarin Platform for four years and learning new things each day. Being just an Asp.NET C# developer, I feel more confident because, for me, developing apps for iOS and Android is a dream came true, without migrating to Objective-C or Java.

Also, it’s cost-effective when you don’t require more native developers for each platform. You can train one C# developer for Xamarin using free resources or even provide paid training, and he or she alone can deliver your apps for each platform.

Test Cloud, Calabash, SpecFlow, and Xamarin.UITest are the features which can’t be ignored because just writing code doesn’t mean your app will run flawlessly. You need to test your app on each possible device and configuration, which you can do easily.

And how can I forget plugins like MvvmCross, which make a developer’s life easy.

I would say that every technology has room for improvement, Xamarin Platform is no exception. All Xamarin library issues which need to be taken care of should be top priority. Sometimes it becomes clumsy when there are a lot of things going on in your project or solution and you need to take care of business logic in parallel. On top of everything, providing only wrapper classes does not make a developer’s life easy.

So yes, there are improvements going on and they will need to continue to improve in the future as well.

As far as my experience with Xamarin, I’ve found no issues with the stability, if you have the right people working with you. It’s always easy to criticize a technology and it amazes me to see people out there criticizing some technology just because they couldn’t use it properly.

Over time it has created a revolutionary change in the technology and market. In our case, we were able to deliver projects on time and that’s what matters in the end. Maybe we have faced some issues but it would not be nice to say that Xamarin is not a stable technology. As a matter of fact, it is very stable, and they're working on making it more and more stable each day.

People are flying radio-controlled drones and aircraft as a hobby with the help of apps which were developed using Xamarin technology. Yes, 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.

I would rate technical support at eight out of 10. There are communities like Xamarin Forums and Stack Overflow that will possibly give you answers. If you are a developer you know exactly what I am talking about.

In the very beginning, it was a bit complex because I was using Visual Studio 2015 which doesn’t come with a Xamarin module like Visual Studio 2017; you need to add it manually.

If you plan smartly enough I think you will save some bucks for sure. You don’t need different native developers for each platform as Xamarin comes with cross-platform development so that’s an advantage.

I would rate Xamarin Platform an eight out of 10 because, while developing applications using Xamarin Platform you will come across some library issues which need to be taken care of first. But I would strongly recommend Xamarin Platform because it’s a reliable technology compared with what is out there in the market and a plus-point is support for C# language. 

My only advice is that you please do a proof of concept before diving straight into development. It is always good to see beyond what you want and the requirements of your project. First, do some benchmarking of the requirements and then go for implementation of your solution.

Our company uses the Native solution to build mobile apps in DevOps that we push to app stores. 

One of our clients is an insurance company and we are building a forms app that needs to be nice but not super smooth because the app is more about data input and output. 

The solution allows us to share libraries from the mobile app to our client's web project. 

The solution's most valuable asset is its shared code base in C# that is better for large apps. 

Code is transferred to the .NET framework and the standard libraries for shared code are great. 

The solution is reliable with a very manageable hierarchy that allows multiple roles and permissions.

The solution's pull request system is quite good and unit testing is useful. 

The solution does not include Hot Reload which is painful because it causes us to wait quite some time for huge builds. 

The solution does not allow for use of the latest or premium version of Visual Studio so we have to use the 2019 version. 

The layout interface and designer for Android Studio is more advanced than the iOS Builder. Most of our layouts have to be built in Xcode but broken connections and file updates are continuing issues. 

Standard libraries have not been updated in four years because the focus has been on newer products like Xamarin.Forms and .NET MAUI. 

To continue to use the solution, we have to bind SDKs after new Android or iOS platform releases. 

No support is offered that would make our lives easier so we rely instead on Rider as an ID for development because it includes ReSharper. 

The auto update system is not trusted because it has broken our builds on occasion. 

I have been using the solution for ten years. 

The solution is reliable and stable with no bugs. 

We disabled auto updates because on occasion they were breaking our builds. 

The solution is scalable because of C# which allows large builds across teams. 

I don't need assistance often and am satisfied with past technical support. 

One issue regarding Test Cloud was resolved.

Another issue involving the iOS platform was not resolved by support so I ended up fixing it with a workaround. 

In general, forums contain topics that include workarounds for very early in an issue's lifecycle. Our team has been successful in fixing issues internally. 

I used CodeGear for another project. 

The initial setup is straightforward. 

Setup issues are not with the solution but are caused by native items such as Android and iOS provisioning profiles and upload rights. 

Our company includes 30 developers who deploy the solution through a week-long process that includes multiple steps such as regression testing, Test Cloud, and internal processes. 

Once all steps are complete, we automatically upload to stores and promote the version to be used. 

We maintain apps we build for our clients. 

Android Studio is growing faster than Visual Studio or Xamarin Studio because they focus only on Android apps. 

The native development of Android Studio is not comparable to Visual Studio. 

MAUI is amazing because it offers multi-platform distribution.

The solution is good but doesn't fit every app or use case so you should consider all options. 

The solution's strength is in form apps but it is not the best option for small, pixel-perfect apps full of animation and transitions. 

The solution does not include native bindings so you have to create one which is a hideous process. Our company opted to work with a third-party for binding six iOS libraries. It was too tedious to have to go through a whole update cycle after changing one item. If an app relies on third-party bindings or libraries, I don't recommend using the solution. 

We are using Xamarin for a messaging app and customer-facing end-user experiences. It's been great so far, and thankfully all the upgrades that happened throughout the year have led us to develop good UI.

I think the best part about Xamarin is that you can create apps for both platforms using one source code. That's the most powerful feature. When you develop something for Android, it also builds for iVerse as well. The cross-platform aspect of Xamarin is unique. The ability to develop both apps with a single code base is something very unique.

It would be better if they offered more certifications. They offer a number of certifications for Azure but none for Xamarin. This is something that could be provided for developers to show off their competency. Technical support could be better.

I have been working with Xamarin since 2016. I'm very fortunate to have started working with Xamarin before Microsoft acquired it. I have been using Xamarin ever since.

Xamarin is a well-supported stable solution.

Xamarin is very scalable. You can develop apps for hundreds or thousands of customers with the same code base. That is something very unique. I have a company that has a team of six Xamarin developers. They are all very experienced.

Technical support could be better. We often get support from the community and only sometimes from the Xamarin team. They are not the best, but they are okay.

The initial setup is straightforward. It wasn't earlier, but now it's pretty easy. You can deploy this solution with just a few clicks. Like any other app, if it's an automated deployment, it will probably take an hour or two. 

Xamarin is free. There is no license unless you go for some high-end enterprise features. Other than that, everything's free.

I would tell potential users to look at the new updates coming in over the next three or four months, as those are critical. The best place for you to start with Xamarin is by following the contributors on YouTube. I know there are many paid courses, but they aren't good or worth the money. It's best to take a course directly provided by the content creator or contributor.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Xamarin an eight.

The primary use case of this solution is to reduce the development of applications. For example, when we develop an application for both Android and iOS, instead of writing two different applications using Java and Quest, we write everything in Xamarin Platform and that one application can run on Android and iOS.

The solution saves us time by containing all the development work in one application instead of two and it's well-documented. The solution is consolidated, meaning that it's been on the market for many years. Xamarin Platform is stable, it works, and it is very simple.

The solution always has room for improvement with price, integration, stability, and documentation.

I have been using the solution for one year.

The solution is stable.

The solution is used to develop apps for mobile devices so there is no limit. We have 10 developers using the solution in our organization.

The initial setup is very simple.

The deployment was completed in-house.

There is no license fee because the solution is open-source.

I give the solution an eight out of ten.

I recommend the solution to others.

We have worked on Android and iOS applications using the Xamarin Platform. In addition, we have used it to build Android and iOS applications.

When we create applications, we usually need applications for both platforms. For example, we have a vendor that provides services on both Android and iOS applications. So usually, if we want to create an application for Android and iOS, we have to create two applications, one in Android, like Java or Kotlin, and one in iOS, like Swift or Objective C. But, using the Xamarin Platform, we don't have to create two applications. Instead, we create one Xamarin form application. We write code in that solution and build it according to our specifications.

Xamarin Platform is a platform that uses C Sharp and allows you to create hybrid applications. The best part of this solution is that you can create one solution in C Sharp. It works for both Android and iOS.

They can improve their marketing to have more popularity as other solutions in the market. I haven't seen that many limitations in the Xamarin Platform. It's pretty UI-heavy, and some may say that Xamarin applications are a bit slow, but that is probably only if the developer hasn't followed the instructions.

Creating an application works like a native application, but the file size is a bit big, so you have to make certain layers. That is one drawback, but it is understandable because we use an external platform. When we build the project, the C Sharp code and the Xamarin Platform get converted into the native code in Android and iOS, so we have to have a middle layer bundled inside our application.

In the past, when we wanted to select a file from our mobile storage, we could not, and that feature was missing, so we had to implement it in native code and then use it in our code. But now they have created Xamarin Essential, which has all those features.

We have been using this solution for six years and use version 4.7. Xamarin Platform is used for hybrid mobile applications and building app solutions for Android, iOS, and Windows.

It is a stable solution.

It is a scalable solution. Mostly the developers at our organization use this solution. Microsoft acquired Xamarin, so it is part of their Visual Studio and maintenance is done by Microsoft.

Before using the Xamarin Platform, we used a hybrid technology solution, like Paladin, but it was difficult to use. If a company is using C Sharp or .NET to build their products, they'll want their current team to work on it so C Sharp developers can easily move into the Xamarin Platform to create the hybrid application. It depends on your client and requirements if you're going with Xamarin Platform or React Native.

Our deployment process is simple. It happens in-house, and we don't use a third party. We create an application on Google Play Store, the same as deploying regular Android applications with one additional step of archiving it. So, from Visual Studio, you archive it, sign the application, and then upload the .AAB file on the Google Play store or iOS. You create an archive from here and can upload it using the file uploader Mac provides.

I do all the deployments myself and need 30 minutes to create a full application and deploy it for Android. For iOS, it takes about five minutes.

It is a free platform.

I rate this solution a nine out of ten. Most people choose React Native over the Xamarin Platform because it is more prevalent in the market. Xamarin Platform requires learning because it is an old language. It uses C Sharp, so not everyone can work with it. It is a bit difficult at first, but once you start working on it and get the hang of it, you can do everything in the Xamarin Platform.

I am using the Xamarin Platform because I am using Visual Studio or Xamarin Studio.

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.

The Xamarin.Forms could improve.

I have been using the Xamarin Platform for approximately two years.

Xamarin Platform is stable.

The scalability of the Xamarin Platform is good.

We have four developers using this solution in my organization.

I have not contacted the support from Xamarin Platform.

The initial setup of the Xamarin Platform is easy and takes one day.

Xamarin Platform is a free open-source solution.

This is a good platform.

I rate Xamarin Platform an eight out of ten.