Ask HN: Is Xamarin worth learning?

Re:Ask HN: Is Xamarin worth learning? by jordache on Monday November 14, 2016 @09:56AM (#12950142)

It maps closely to android development? Then how is that a good soln for cross platform Dev?

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Re:Ask HN: Is Xamarin worth learning? by NMDaniel on Monday November 14, 2016 @04:25PM (#12953518)

I'm no mobile developer but I guess that being able to share classes and libraries(that are non UI/mobile specific, mostly services and domain/business logic) among all the .NET platforms. So you could use the same libraries for an android,ios, windows phone client, a desktop GUI client, a webserver, a static website.

In theory at least...

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Re:Ask HN: Is Xamarin worth learning? by jmkni on Monday November 14, 2016 @10:57AM (#12950604)

You have access to all of the same namespaces that a native app does, and also access to all of the namespaces included in .net Framework Standard.

You can stay within .net Framework Standard and share that code between your Android/iOS/Windows Phone(lol) app, and reach into the native libraries when you need platform specific functionality.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Xamarin worth learning? by jordache on Monday November 14, 2016 @06:44PM (#12954374)

if the xamarin cross platform sdk maps closely to one mobile platform, how does make it intuitive for iOS developers? Or are the classes aliased for each target platform?

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