How to Choose Between Xamarin vs Native Mobile Development
Mobile app development is one of the leading trends in the IT industry, today. When it comes to creating a mobile application, the question is which framework fits your project.
Native mobile app development involves building apps for particular mobile operating systems, and users access them from dedicated app stores (such as the App Store or Google Play). If you intend to build an application for iOS, app developers will use programming languages Objective-C or Swift. In contrast, Android development calls for the programming languages Java or Kotlin.
Native app development case studies:
- Building an online store — Puma;
- Processing legal requests — California Court Access App;
- Enabling media transfer — Snapchat;
- Building a personalized Santa message — Portable North Pole;
- Creating a marketplace for nannies — Daily Nanny.
Xamarin is a Microsoft owned tool used for mobile app development across different platforms. It is relatively new, but it allows mobile app engineers to share around 90% of the code across the leading platforms. You can have a web application that works in a browser on any device, an iOS and Android native apps all using the same code.
Xamarin case studies:
- Many platforms, one language — UPS;
- Sharing C# codebase — BBC Good Food;
- Processing multiple requests — Olo;
- Integrating Xamarin with Microsoft development tools — FOX Sports;
- Building an MVP — American Cancer Society.
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