Not sure if you have any experience, but Cordova and Xamarin are not the same kind of thing. In Xamarin you (and I would recommend that in most cases) get to use the native APIs of your platform of choice. Aka when targetting iOS you will be using UIView and when Android View. And all methods on those objects are the same ones you would use in Swift and Objective C for iOS and in Java for Android but then under a thin wrapper of C# or F#. Cordova is very much not that. I am not sure where the confusion under devs comes from but Xamarin generally is not used to run the same GUI codebase on two platforms like one would do with Cordova.