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Re:Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test th... by hart_russell on Thursday May 11, 2017 @03:34PM (#14318814)
I've worked on a number of Xamarin apps. You can definitely make stable cross platform apps, it's just very tedious; sometimes it requires more effort than developing 2 separate native apps.
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Re:Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test th... by stevenwoo on Thursday May 11, 2017 @03:39PM (#14318839)
re:more effort Did you have the freedom to recommend going native or was Xamarin a requirement or was it too late to switch?
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Re:Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test th... by UK-AL on Thursday May 11, 2017 @03:43PM (#14318873)
I would imagine xamarin is faster when you have a complicated domain.
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Re:Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test th... by jacobush on Thursday May 11, 2017 @05:27PM (#14319686)
I imagine it goes faster to make the domain complicated with Xamarin. Make of that what you will...
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Re:Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test th... by UK-AL on Thursday May 11, 2017 @06:40PM (#14320105)
You can't make a domain more complicated by technology choices.

You can make it more technically complicated.

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Re:Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test th... by joshjje on Thursday May 11, 2017 @09:16PM (#14320783)
Not sure I follow. Are you being pedantic about the definition of domain? (real question)
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Re:Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test th... by UK-AL on Friday May 12, 2017 @04:29AM (#14322285)
A domain is the business area you are trying to fix problems in. This is the standard definition.

The technology you used can not make that harder or easier.

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Re:Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test th... by mmargerum on Friday May 12, 2017 @09:58AM (#14323970)
My experience as well. I gave up on it and just used Native tools.
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