In the year 2016, Microsoft acquired Xamarin and made the cross platform tools of Xamarin available in Visual Studio. Along with the existing mobile Dev. Ops capabilities, Microsoft added the Xamarin services like Xamarin University and Test Cloud.
To use Xamarin on Visual Studio, developers need to set up the Xamarin installer for their Windows. This integration of Xamarin into the Microsoft’s developer tools enables the vision of “any app, any platform, and any developer”. With the help of
Xamarin certified developer, businesses are allowed to create the native applications for iOS, Android, and Windows by using the productivity and power of development tools and services of Xamarin.
Here are some reasons that developers are preferring Xamarin for their mobile app development:
Native Experience
Today there are several browser-based pure web applications with native experience i.e. access to the native device hardware feature. Cross-platform frameworks utilize the basic web development tools and technologies that fall in between the pure native experiences and web app.
Therefore, the need of native-like performance and user experiences is increasing in the cross-platform development market. Xamarin Studio enables coding in the C# programming language, which is pure object-oriented and can compete with Java and Objective-C paradigms.
Thus, Xamarin technology is able to give native UI to access OS specific software features and device-specific hardware features.
In addition to that, C# can cut efforts as well as provides better performance at the native level.
True Cross-platform Characteristicsr
Xamarin technology offers to share the app logic across several platforms. It allows the developers to share app logic underlying a UI layer like calls for web services, input validation, backend integration, and interactions with databases.
If developers built all these by using C# in Xamarin, then they can share up to 2/3 of code across several mobile platforms. They need to only manage 1/3 native code compatibility. It will ultimately save time and efforts required for debugging and recording.
Easy Collaboration and Sharing
Xamarin technology has a rich component store which contains free and paid components like
• UI controls
• Cross-platform libraries
• Third party web services
Developers are allowed to share these components with the help of a few lines of code and they can establish easy sharing & collaboration for the high-end cross-platform application development right into Xamarin Studio
Advantages of C#
C# is flexible, easy to learn, comprehensive, general-purpose, modern, and pure object-oriented languages for all types of application.
C# allows the simple data types to get treated as objects, therefore, it reduces a lot of coding efforts. C# also displays the flawed program behavior along with type-safety properties for preventing the type errors.
Additionally, C# has eliminated the use of headers and pointers as well as reference operators and namespace is replaced by the period. It allows the making of asynchronous programming part along with an ASP.NET framework.
C# is a better programming language that Xamarin certified developer prefer over other cross-platform tools and technologies.
Rapid Development
Xamarin App Development does not take a lot of time and efforts in binding and programming to give native-like user experiences as well as access to native hardware and software features. Instead, it gives the rapid application development within the shortest time.
It is because developers don’t need to go for the native coding, SDK, or development environment with the native expertise on hands. All they have to do is to just code once in C# language. In Xamarin, there would be no need to repeat coding, designing, and testing for different apps.
Cost-Effective
As the businesses don’t have to invest in the native infrastructure development for android, iOS, and Windows separately and there is no need to hire a separate team of the native app developers, Xamarin has been proven the best at cost efficiencies.
With only one single team of the Xamarin certified developer, businesses need to write code once and deploy it on all their desired mobile platforms with native user experiences.
Conclusion:
There are distinct benefits of Xamarin App Development. Businesses should try to get an experienced Xamarin development team which has some expertise in Android as well as iOS along with the C# language and other Microsoft technologies. It would make their work quality better.