When your enterprise plans to launch an app, which path do you pick: Native app development or Cross-platform app development? Enterprises are constantly facing issues to develop high-quality applications for iOS and Android phones and tablets. With a restricted budget, it becomes all the more difficult to develop apps catering to various platforms. Xamarin app development solves a huge problem and allows you to reuse the code while also retaining native app features. Tastes like ‘the’ asset, isn’t it? Check out this awesome presentation which talks about all the important reasons why you should go for Xamarin App Development!

1. Low On Budget?
Resource
Crunch?
Think
amarin!

2. Native app each for Android, iOS, Windows takes more
effort but pays attention-to-details. On the contrary,
developing a cross-platform application uses a single
framework reducing time and cost efforts but seems likely
to compromise on quality of apps.
Xamarin is a cross platform framework which provides 75%
of the shared code and thereby reducing around 60% of the
development time.
When your enterprise plans
to launch an app, which path
do you pick:
Native app
development
Cross-platform app
development

3. Mobile applications are here to stay and their demands
shall increase constantly without any doubt, so the
enterprises need to get equipped to be able to suffice to
the needs of application delivery at times of heavy
demand. Hence, comes forth Xamarin, the best cross-
platform development solution.
According to Gartner’s survey, 28% of the Fortune 500 companies prefer
Xamarin app development. And this is a huge number...

4. Before we delve deep into Xamarin app development
we first need to clear our concepts related to cross-platform
applications.
Majority of the people who come across this term consider cross-
platform apps as applications which run on several platforms.
However, this term has been modified recently over the past few
years though on some similar lines. It now basically talks about a
platform that can facilitate the development of a single code which
can be used on multiple devices.

5. Xamarin development allows you to use your team’s existing skills
and to build native apps for multiple platforms and on a shared C#
code base.
Using the same IDE, language and APIs everywhere, Xamarin apps
are built with native User Interface. The Xamarin apps can access
the entire band of functionality that is exposed by the underlying
platform and device. It includes special capabilities like iBeacons
and Android.
Xamarin’s integration with native SDKs of each platform allows the
application to take advantage of the platform-specific functionality,
thereby making sense to design the apps to use those features.

6. LET’S SEE WHY XAMARIN...

7. Well equipped with Visual Studio
Xamarin, along with Visual Studio, makes quite a powerful
and impressively modern IDE. It includes myriad features, a
few of them being project template library, code auto-
completion, etc.
It gives .NET/C# framework to generate high performance
real -native binary code output, thereby, resulting in native
applications in its truest sense.
With proper knowledge of C# and, of course, Xamarin’s code
reuse feature, it makes it possible to develop a highly
functional cross-platform native mobile application within
just a few weeks.

8. Faster job with shared code logic
Xamarin allows for various components such as the business
objects, data access layers, app logic, etc to be shared
across multiple platforms.
It implies that the core logic is written once and deployed
across multiple platforms. As much as 90% of the code is
shared across the three major mobile platforms leaving the
rest part to be specifically platform based. Hence, it also
ensures faster go-to-market product.
If an iOS application has already been developed then for the
Android version the coders need not write from scratch,
thereby, saving a lot of time and effort.

9. Secure backend using AMSc
Xamarin and Microsoft have a global partnership.
.NET portable class libraries are made available with deep
integration with Visual Studio.
It also gives support to Microsoft Azure Mobile Services on
both Android and iOS and this feature as secure and
scalable backend is created for multiple mobile platforms.

10. Lowers learning curve
It is very inconvenient and at the same time highly inefficient
as well as a very costly affair to learn, develop and maintain
a different set of codes across different platforms for the
same application.
Xamarin needs only C# language skills, hence, developers
can focus on learning a single skill and save the time spent
on learning separate programming skills as it works for
multiple platforms.
This lowers the learning curve for the codes and accelerates
the process of mobile app development.

11. Supports SDK integrations
Xamarin works with the latest SDKs and makes use of some
of the common and platform specific APIs.
It bids the APIs and SDKs of multiple platforms strongly to
generate high-quality applications.
The SDK integration feature of Xamarin aids in providing
support for new features as soon as they are inserted in the
operating system of the device.

12. Official Blog Link -
http://www.algoworks.com/blog/xamarin-
cross-platform-app-development/
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