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How Xamarin Transforms Cross Platform App Development?

Author: Ryan Williamson
by Ryan Williamson
Posted: Dec 04, 2017

Cross platform presence has come to the fore in the mobile age. Driven by the need of catering to customers present on different devices and platforms and growing customer base, enterprises are increasingly investing in cross platform app development with Xamarin being their preferred choice of development platform.

Xamarin is a widely known hybrid app development solution, adopted by nearly 1.4 million developers for building innovative apps that comply with the requirements of both App Store and Google Play. It is a fast-evolving technology, empowering every Xamarin mobile application development company to create robust, futuristic applications that boost download and engagement rate regardless of the mobile OS it runs on.

A Brief History of Xamarin

Xamarin was originally created by engineers who created Mono, the cross platform implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) and Common Language Specifications (CLS) – often known as Microsoft.NET. It is an open source framework used by app developers to seamlessly translate the code written in C# into different versions of mobile platforms. Xamarin was acquired by Microsoft in early 2015 and then open sourced via Visual Studio – at no additional cost.

Elements That Make Xamarin the King of Cross Platform

  1. RMAD (Rapid Mobile App Development): Xamarin runs on the WORA (Write Once, Run Anywhere) concept, enabling all developers to build applications using a single codebase. Because the app code is simple and compact, it minimizes the app’s time-to-market, accelerating the product development life cycle (PDLC). It works seamlessly on all major mobile OSes such as Android, iOS, Windows, and BlackBerry. The code-sharing capability of Xamarin is such that you can port the code to any other platform easily while analyzing the elements during runtime. This ultimately boosts the speed of your development project.
  1. Native User Experience (UX) & Improved Performance: Unlike the traditional hybrid solution using web-based technologies, an application built with Xamarin can still be classified as native. Its performance can be compared to that of Objective C or Swift for iOS or Java for Android. Xamarin further improves your efficiency to meet the standards of native mobile app development. It is a comprehensive package for building, testing and tracking an app’s performance. The combination of Xamarin Test Cloud and Xamarin Test Recorder allows you to run automated user interface tests while identifying performance issues prior to app release.
  1. Simplified App Maintenance: The cross platform nature of Xamarin makes maintaining and updating the apps a lot easier. You simply have to deploy the changes or updates to your source code that are applicable to both Android and iOS. However, this feature is only available to developers building apps with Xamarin.Forms, Xamarin.Android or Xamarin.iOS. But it certainly helps in reducing your time and money as well as keeping your mobile apps up to date.

To sum up, Xamarin is the best app development solution any enterprise can ever ask for. With its portability, integrated hardware support, access to nearly twenty thousand.NET libraries and components, and single technology stack, you can reduce the time to market your app, engineering efforts, and costs. All this together makes Xamarin the best development tool in the cross platform space. What are your views regarding Xamarin app development? Do you think it provides all the features essential for consumer-facing and enterprise app development? Share your views in the comments below.

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