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Michael Desjardins
Michael Desjardins

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Why Use Xamarin For Mobile App Development?

Are you planning to build your mobile presence? Then, here in this article, we will give you a walkthrough on why Xamarin considered good for your mobile development needs. In today’s competitive market conditions, businesses should develop mobile solutions that are compatible with all mobile operating systems. Mobile app development is considered a daunting task, and it generally requires a lot of time, mainly if you are thinking of developing a cross-platform mobile app for Android, iOS, and Windows at the same time. In this way, Xamarin is considered as an ideal tool used by many developers or designers when it comes to making single code over different platforms without barring the app's viability, performance, or user experience.

Native User Experience

Xamarin provides total access to native application programming interfaces (APIs) on all platforms. The APIs can spare developers’ time and effort, and help to deploy the code quickly and effectively to the market. Therefore, it converts UI elements into platform-specific elements, stage explicit components, bringing about native app-like design and experience.

Single Technological Stack

With Xamarin cross-platform app development, a single language C# makes a wide range of solutions. Also, there's no need to change between environments — everything is possible in Visual Studio. This is advantageous and time-effective as Xamarin developers do the same process using one language rather than two unique languages. So, Xamarin is easy to learn.

Enhanced Time-to-Market

A sharable codebase altogether decreases the development cycle. One can re-use the code multiple times, by making slight modifications and not wasting hours on the same procedure. The quick the development time, the better the time to market. In this way, one can improve the speed of the app and make it a superior option for business-oriented projects.

Clear Maintenance

Mobile apps developed with Xamarin.Forms are very easy to maintain as they share a codebase. If you have to update apps and fix a few issues, do it in the source code; and, all improvements will be naturally applied to other solutions. This helps in saving developers’ time and money. Also, the Xamarin people deserve respect as they offer extensive customer support upheld with efficient documentation and training opportunities. Xamarin, with a cross-platform framework for mobile apps, is easy to maintain, update, and deploy the code.

Testing

The Xamarin app development platform offers a complete solution such as the Xamarin test cloud and the Xamarin test recorder to test as well as monitor app performance and user interface (UI). These tools help you to automatically run tests on multiple real devices in the cloud and discover execution issues before the code release.

Conclusion

To conclude, Xamarin is brilliant as well as an incredible platform, which is leading in cross-platform mobile app development at a fractional cost. Developers can easily build, test, and run apps for multiple platforms with just one framework. With the above-mentioned benefits, Xamarin provides great app performance and UX. What are your views on Xamarin as a great platform? Share with us in the comments section below.

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Duke

Sounds a bit too as an ad to your site, and there IS an #advertising tag. The advantages read as more of a sales pitch than a testimony of your own experiences when using it. There's also no solution with no drawbacks and a transparent informational post doesn't omit it