Re:Xamarin Forms: it works
by ninja10 on Thursday September 20, 2018 @10:29PM
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I used xamarin a few years ago for a moderately sized iOS app. It got me about 95% there. That last few percent was brutal, the app kept crashing after coming back from the contact chooser. Couldn't find a way around it, even with latest xamarin version, hot fixes. Was very unfortunate. I'm pretty skeptical of frameworks that abstract away a whole system. Hopefully, xamarin is a lot more stable and powerful these days.
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Re:Xamarin Forms: it works
by underwater on Friday September 21, 2018 @12:26AM
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> I'm pretty skeptical of frameworks that abstract away a whole system.
But that’s what every platform does. You only notice it when it doesn’t work.
It has improved a lot in the last year, I started working with it just as Microsoft acquired Xamarin, it was buggy as hell, now it is really solid.
Re:Xamarin Forms: it works
by stefanfisk on Thursday September 20, 2018 @11:21PM
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People have been saying that since Xamarin came out though, myself included a few years back.
I often get the feeling that what has happened in "the last year" is that the developer saying it has gotten to know Xamarin well enough to avoid the warts.
Re:Xamarin Forms: it works
by randomposter44 on Thursday September 20, 2018 @10:30PM
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This has been my experience with pretty much all of the write once run anywhere cross compiled mobile app frameworks