Xamarin makes me sad, here is my message to them

Re:Xamarin makes me sad, here is my message to them by jagawhowho on Monday September 22, 2014 @12:52AM (#8349291)

Seems he already knows the solution. Go native with c/c++. Re-write the front end per platform.

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Re:Xamarin makes me sad, here is my message to them by pjmlp on Monday September 22, 2014 @02:14AM (#8349484)

That is my approach.

Xamarin requires anyway an UI implementation per device.

The time spent fighting integration bugs can be used in productive coding instead.

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Re:Xamarin makes me sad, here is my message to them by cageface on Monday September 22, 2014 @03:11AM (#8349582)

This works pretty well on iOS where you can transparently mix C++ and ObjC but on Android you're looking at JNI hell.

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Re:Xamarin makes me sad, here is my message to them by pjmlp on Monday September 22, 2014 @03:18AM (#8349596)

Still way better than having to deal with JNI hell plus whatever code, that you don't control, sits between your application and the JNI calls.

My little Qt review, which I posted in a sibling thread, reminded me why using the platform tooling is always the best approach.

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