
Xamarin The X-Factor
- By Curt Hopfenbeck
- National VP of Sales and Relations
As one of the leading custom, web
In conjunction with Visual Studio, we realized immediately that Xamarin provided a rich mobile development offering that enabled our developers to build mobile apps using C# and deliver fully native mobile app experiences to all major devices – including iOS, Android, and Windows. Xamarin’s approach enables our developers to take advantage of the productivity and power of .NET to build mobile apps, and to use C# to write to the full set of native APIs and mobile capabilities provided by each device platform. This enables us to easily share common app code across iOS, Android and Windows apps while still delivering fully native experiences for each of the platforms.
Mindfire was also impressed by that fact that Xamarin has more than 15,000 customers in 120 countries, including more than one hundred Fortune 500 companies. Top enterprises such as Alaska Airlines, Coca-Cola Bottling, Thermo Fisher, Honeywell
In the beginning, we knew that the major contestants would be HTML5 and Javascript, and the key argument internally for us centered around cross-platform support when compared to native apps. Other cross-platform based technologies like Sencha Touch and Apache Cordova were released, but when it came to factors like performance and user experience, we felt that they arrived well short of expectations.
Now let’s examine some of the additional reasons why Mindfire Technology selected Xamarin as it’s latest strategic initiative:
It Serves the Purpose Delivered by Native Frameworks
One of the major complaints of Apache Cordova and the like was, though they were used by developers for making
Shared App Logic
Once the coding is done in C#, it can be shared across various platforms with only minor changes in them. It is said that developers can share about 75% of the code and they can save coding
The Benefits of very Powerful IDEs with Xamarin>
Developers can leverage the benefits of very powerful Integrated Development Environments (IDE’s) to enable improved support process. In cross-platform, you are creating two sets of platform codes, for example, Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Droid. Though you still work on the code and user interface design separately, you can still share generic platform independent classes, where you can share utility classes and business logic and then import them into the platform folders of both.
Seamless Designs with Xamarin Forms
The user interface for apps is written in a new universal format, Xamarin Forms. This helps you to create not only seamless
Get to Enjoy the Benefits of C#
We all know that C++ is a simple object-oriented programming language that is both modern and general purpose. C# is the modernized version of C++ and it can enjoy type free errors that might make your program flawed. With its simplified syntax, you don't have to use pointers and headers, while periods replace namespace and reference operators. This makes C# one of the best programming languages used in cross-platform development.
Multiple Device Testing
Xamarin allows for testing across several devices. And that’s not all. You can detect bugs that might hinder user experience. Besides that, the developer can make use of performance detection capabilities integrated within Xamarin to check for any issues that might arise when the app is in the hands of the user. Many of these tests are automated, depending on user preferences and requirements.
As Mindfire Technology continues to deliver world-class applications, service
Excellence, it’s a state of Mind… Fire!