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Manthan

Verified reviewer

Computer Software, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
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OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2021

Xamarin - An open source mobile app cross platform

We have created our application in very less time compared to previously where we used native platforms to create individual application. It gives us an extra time to create more applications. Also Windows application can be created from a same project.

PROS

We just need to create different UI for different OS. Create a shared project for all back end communication. Can save lot of times from business perspective and create a impactful application.

CONS

iOS UI should be created within Xamarin only. No need to open xcode for that.

Reasons for switching to Xamarin

As we wanted to create our application compatible for all platforms including iOS, Android and Windows.

Oussama

Computer Games, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
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OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2023

Xamarin: A Comprehensive Review of its Pros and Cons

Overall, Xamarin is an excellent choice for cross-platform development. It is easy to use, reliable, and the code sharing feature is incredibly helpful for saving time and effort. I would highly recommend Xamarin for anyone looking for a comprehensive cross-platform development solution.

PROS

Xamarin is an incredibly powerful cross-platform development tool that allows for easy code sharing and a streamlined workflow.

CONS

Although Xamarin is relatively easy to use, it is not as intuitive as some of the other development tools on the market and lacks some of the more advanced features that could be useful for experienced developers.

Reasons for switching to Xamarin

Xamarin stands out from its alternatives due to its superior code sharing abilities and its ability to integrate with multiple platforms. Additionally, it is compatible with a variety of programming languages, making it an ideal choice for developers of all skill levels.

Arpit

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
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OVERALL RATING:

1

EASE OF USE

1

VALUE FOR MONEY

1

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

2

Reviewed August 2017

Use something else

Cross-platform development.

PROS

It provides native support using language you already know (C#). If you know C# very deeply then maybe this would right choice for you.

CONS

Can't do high level UI stuff. Not cross-platform as they advertise it is. you will end up doing same code for each platform. I'd do native rather than this.

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Gabriel

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Computer Software, 201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
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OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

2

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed January 2019

Probably the best multi-platform framework

To state upfront: I have experience with both native Xamarin and .Forms variants, using Visual Studio as the choice IDE. Development is straightforward and there is plenty of learning material available to enable even mid level .Net developers to become productive in a matter of days. From a product owner's perspective this is the go-to tool when having to target multiple platforms. You get the advantage of being able to target device & platform specific features without the pains of having to use web containers like Cordova or Ionic frameworks) For the standard developer, the biggest pain is the debugging experience. This is usually slow (for instance it lacks the native Android's "Fast deployment" feature) and due to compiler optimizations, Intelisense will barely work (you don't get listings of the available properties & methods, while some property values will not be accessible at all) - although this can be mitigated by using a good logging tool. To add further, the (relatively) new Xamarin Forms will further constraint the developer to use a unified implementation, making the overall product even more maintainable (although this may have limitations when converting existing native apps). All in all, this is a matured product that should always be considered when targeting multi-platform software.

PROS

- First and foremost, it's portability that is driving the market. Being able to write a single implementation which targets multiple platforms is extremely cost effective - Being backed up by .Net (extremely common among the software development community) it's far easier to maintain a Xamarin solution (as opposed to having to find native platform developers) - Hardware support is really at an all time high - even hardware producers (e.g.: Motorola) are putting out Xamarin SDKs.

CONS

- Perhaps the only true disadvantage is that there is always a delay before it gets updated to support the latest platform update - Debugging can become tedious and I've seen this especially on the native implementations due to Xamarin's less-than-optimal way of reporting an issue (i.e.: you may end up in situations where an error message related to an Android run-time was actually caused by some small layout issue where a needed element is not present)

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Richard

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Computer Software, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
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OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed June 2018

A development delight, if you know what you're doing

Nice unified development environment.

PROS

Xamarin comes in a few flavours. There is Xamarin.Forms which is a totally unified development experience across all apps. You're more limited & restricted in what you can do, but at the payoff of being able to develop once across all platforms. Xamarin.IOS and Xamarin.Android are C# wrappers for the native libraries, so you're basically writing a native app but in C# and are able to share code between platforms using a portable class library or a .net standard library. Also it's totally free and backed by Microsoft. They keep up to date with the latest libraries really well and has large community support.

CONS

There is a bit of a learning curve with all Xamarin - and certain levels of understanding really help you out. But it can be confusing when you're looking at examples and unsure of how it applies to your own code. Xamarin.Forms has a lot of restrictions, but if your goal is to make a simple native feeling form-y application and don't want to do anything specific, it can save a lot of development time. With Xamarin.IOS and Xamarin.Android you're in a bit of trouble if no one has created bindings for a library you want to use, you can do it yourself but it's not well documented and can be confusing. If you don't like Visual Studio and C# this is not for you.

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Mohammad Sami

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Computer Software, 201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
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OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2021

Mobile Development Made Easy

Overall, I've been using Xamarin for over 6 years now, and enjoying developing applications that I can then deploy on multiple OSes without learning anything else than Xamarin

PROS

The best thing with this framework is that it offers single code base that is used to develop software for multiple OS, like I can use the same code for developing app that can run on Android, iOS, Windows and macOS

CONS

App build up times are still slow, it takes a while to deploy the application when compared to other frameworks

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Navjot

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Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
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OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2019

Best cross platform tool for IOS & Android development

PROS

The best thing is it is owned by Microsoft so you will get regular updates, tutorial, and blogs for understanding new features, security measures introduced. You need not to hire separate developers for IOS & Android & it will eventually reduce development time. You can also develop native apps along with cross-platform. Development is basically C# based so learning is easy for developers working on Microsoft Technologies

CONS

Only IDE available for development is Microsoft Visual Studio costing of which may be a concern for smaller organizations.

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anthony

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Consumer Electronics, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
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OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed October 2018

best mobile development platform for IOS, Windows and Android

Xamarin help us to have a single code base for our mobile application which is easier to maintain. Our developers can now focus on a single programming language which has more time for mastery.

PROS

I like the most on this software is the capability to create mobile application on android and IOS with a single code base. Xamarin has rich control libraries which is compatible for IOS and Android devices which save a lot of development time.

CONS

Xamarin is not beginner friendly. A user must have a fundamental knowledge on application developement with android and ios.

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Trevor

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Computer Software, 1 employee

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
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OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2019

Invaluable for Cross-Platform Development

PROS

Xamarin is now integrated with Visual Studio and together they make programming, especially for mobile, extremely easy. Writing code once and being able to share it across Windows, Android, iOS and MacOS is something I didn't think would be possible when I started coding. Xamarin is a life saver.

CONS

I love this software. I don't have anything bad to say about it.

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Marian

Verified reviewer

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
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OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2018

Xamarin, the best option to develop a mobile application for different platforms

PROS

- The best thing about Xamarin is that with the same programming language, I can develop applications on all the platforms of the market, as it says: "Write once, execute on all platforms". - In case of an error, the correction will be applied on all platforms. - The applications developed are completely native

CONS

This platform uses C # language for application development, so those who do not have experience with this language will have to learn it, the good news is that it is a friendly language, easy to learn and manage

Toni

Maritime, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed December 2022

Un ottimo tool di sviluppo anche se ...

Per sviluppare le App per i nostri clienti abbiamo valutato diversi prodotti, dai tools nativi disponibili per le varie piattaforme a framework open source. Alla fine abbiamo scelto Xamarin in quanto conoscendo un solo linguaggio ci dà la possibilità di sviluppare su più piattaforme contemporaneamente riducendo così costi e tempi di sviluppo.

PROS

Possibilità di sviluppare in un solo linguaggio e di implementarlo in più piattaforme. Numerose estensioni disponibili e aggiornamenti continui. Disponibilità di una versione gratuita completamente funzionale.

CONS

Sarebbe utile un tool di progettazione grafico per creare le interfacce utente. Il debugger su device iOS è molto lento e inutilizzabile.

Reasons for switching to Xamarin

avevamo la necessità di utilizzare un tool multipiattaforma

Anonymous

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2021

Review for Xamarin

It is the only choice for developers who needs to develop mobile applications for various platforms in less period and less team number as it can leverage shared libraries.

PROS

It is an extremely useful platform for cross-platform mobile app developers. Since it is backed by Microsoft, it has all features, frameworks, tools and services supports by Microsoft. It is thus far the most successful and robust cross-platform framework to develop native android and iOS mobile apps.

CONS

The device emulators are not very useful when it comes to developing complex apps. It has a big and bit of complex learning curve. For those who are not familiar with .NET C#, the learning curve extends

Roberto

Consumer Electronics, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed December 2022

Ottimo ma migliorabile

Utilizziamo Xamarin per sviluppare per i nostri clienti App Android e iOS. Avere un unico linguaggio per uno sviluppo multi piattaforma è davvero un grande vantaggio, risparmiamo tempo e costi sia per lo sviluppo che per il mantenimento. Peccato che tra poco verrà rimpiazzato.

PROS

possibilità di utilizzare un solo linguaggio per sviluppare in multipiattaforma, presenza di una edizione free, aggiornamenti e miglioramenti continui, possibilità di utilizzare il git

CONS

sarebbe utile migliorare il debug sui vari simulatori, spesso è lento o si blocca. Necessaria una macchina Apple per poter collegare il debugger per iOS.

Reason for choosing Xamarin

Non era possibile lo sviluppo multi piattaforma.

Anonymous

1,001-5,000 employees

Used less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
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OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed October 2018

Xamarin Power

In all the occasions in which I have developed using Xamarin, the practicality was always the most important consideration if it is especially desired for data-driven applications, if more sophisticated applications such as games are desired, it is better to use native tools. Xamarin will not disappoint him if he used it intelligently, he can also put a lot of integration with other VIsual Studio projects and not die in the process.

PROS

The big virtue of Xamarin is simplicity and interporability, if you are a C# programmer with regular skills on MVC and Mobile Development you can create functional apps in a short time. The capability to publish your apps on Android, Mac OS and if needed Windows Mobile, allows you to enable enterprise level apps for must osf your expected users. Also common shared code for your projects reduce the amount of work you need. Current templates covers must of common use cases and all you need is customize your user experience.

CONS

The big contra is that user interfaces are not so easey to customize as several advanced features are sacrified in order to achieve multiplatform capabilities. Also as expected apps are not so fast as the native ones created with Android Studio or Xcode.

Anonymous

1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
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OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed January 2018

Best cross platform to deliver great mobile apps

PROS

We can reuse source code to a great extent speeding up the engineering cycle. Its look and feel and behavior is very close to native app. Also due to its cross-platform application, Xamarin makes maintenance and updates easier.

CONS

With Xamarin, you have to use only the components provided by the platform and some .Net open source resources. Xamarin's main benefit is the ability to share your code across the platforms. Yet, you can only share the logic, UI code will be mostly platform-specific. This makes building games, rich custom UI, or complex animations in Xamarin pretty pointless.

Anonymous

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
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OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2019

Great for building applications across multiple platforms

PROS

Building Xamarin apps allows me to deploy mobile apps to both android and iOS. It saves me a ton of development time.

CONS

The UI code is still platform specific, and often tough to work with as you are not working with the native language of the platform. Though the time saved from deploying the same business logic to multiple platforms makes Xamarin a home run.

Anonymous

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
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OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed May 2018

very functional multiplatform to create your mobile applications with c # and .net languages.

I began to develop in this multiplatform since I started programming, with it I saw opportunities to provide my code and test the applications in the multiplatform that it offers.

PROS

Since Xamarin allows packages / add-ons from the nuget.org website, or can install any package from nuget.org, which saves writing code for these functions. It is a very comfortable way when developing projects.

CONS

The Visual Studio emulator is a little slow and has a somewhat confusing intrefaz, besides that it consumes many resources in a computer.

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Ankush

Verified reviewer

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
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OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2018

Best cross platform

Mobile application development and designing.

PROS

Xamarin is the best available cross platform for mobile application development. The platform works with #C and .Net frameworks to design stylish and smother applications. Support forums are easily available of this. 90 percent code is shareable in pcl class library.

CONS

Xamarin provides limited access for the open source library functions which can be improve. When comes to iOS development it has support limitations.

Matthew

Education Management, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
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OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed October 2017

Adoption of the platform was seamless.

Easy to deploy cross platform mobile applications.

PROS

Xamerin primarily chosen because of our familiarity with C#. It is a lesser learning curve if you already have the c# resources. We have found it very easy from start to finish to deployment of mobile applications

CONS

One problem we keep running into is remote build server for iOS builds. The connection to the remote build server gets disconnect or can not connect we have to remove temp files to get the connection back

Anonymous

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
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OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed February 2019

Xamarin is easy to learn but could be better

Xamarin is not bad. However, it’s not the best. I personally would just use Visual Studios since it is free and receive updates often.

PROS

The text editor to go to if you are new and looking to make Android or IOS apps. Xamarin makes it possible to develop smartphone apps without learning all that technical know-how. All you need is basic knowledge of C#

CONS

Unfortunately, going the easy way isn’t necessarily the best way. So, Xamarin let you take shortcuts to make an app, but it can lead to struggles with the build. Also, if you’re using Xamarin free version then you will be very limited compared to the full version.

Douglas

Program Development, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2022

Xamarin for app development

Very useful for developing apps if the developers are already comfortable with C#. Otherwise they would have to learn Java (the standard language for android).

PROS

For programmers who already use C#, Xamarin is a very natural choice. The transition is smooth since all the syntax is the same, and is just like learning a new .NET module. This is my favourite part of the framework, because developers need very little training if they already know C#.

CONS

Sometimes it can be quite buggy and doesn't give you the level of detail for errors you might want. For example, if the app crashes on the phone, quite often the program will just stop and not give any output instead of some kind of error message.

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Ben

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
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OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed February 2018

The way to go for cross platform development if you're a .NET house

PROS

We currently use Xamarin for both mobile application development, and we are looking at using it for development of OSX apps too. Development is easy once you have a bit of knowledge, getting your head around the way to code in Xamarin is relatively easy, and after that you can develop in .NET (we use C#) without many issues. Adding features which require native code is easy enough too, and wrappers are easy to find to do this for you.

CONS

Xamarin forms are still not as good as we would like, so we tend to produce native user interfaces for each platform. We have hope that forms will reach a good enough standard to be used in most cases soon though.

Ravikiran

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
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OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed February 2018

Good cross platform app development for Android and iOS

This saves time and money and can work with single code base. This will help code maintainability

PROS

Easy to use and more help documentation. Easy to start and develop the cross platform Able to develop apps like the native app and able to use native OS capabilities

CONS

Some time feels like native app development is easy able to make changes with the very little effort unlike using cross platform IDE

Anonymous

501-1,000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2018

Xamarin is best cross Android application platform

Development of Android applications.

PROS

Xamarin an efficient cross application development platform works with #C and dot net frameworks. Xamarin form design is pretty much attractive as we can code it to make brilliant UI. There is a certified Developer course of Xamarin from official University. Overall you can build an outstanding application in low cost.

CONS

This platform also has some limitations as for iOS it support limited functionality as compare to Android. You must need proficiency in #C and dot net to get into Xamarin.

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Jean Hazel

Verified reviewer

Retail, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
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OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed June 2018

Xamarin - One Code, All Platforms

PROS

Being able to code mobile application by just using C# and then you can publish to Android, iOS and even Windows Phone is just simply incredible.

CONS

This technology is still young and may still have some bugs. Also the Visual Studio emulator is verrry slow, so I just use a physical hardware on my development.

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