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The Upsides of Using Xamarin Over Native App

Sani Abdul Jabbar
Sani Abdul Jabbar
Sani is Managing Director of VeztekUSA a well-known Web and Mobile App Development Company based in Los Angeles, California. He has extensive experience in building and leading innovative software development teams. He always stay up to date with latest trends in Mobile App Development and loves contributing on different technology Blog. Find Sani on:

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Mobile applications are gaining power with each day passing by. Mobile digital media has overtaken desktop media, and every small, medium or big business and company are flocking towards owning an application. In this current time, if you are not able to reach out to the audience on their smartphones.

It actually shows that you are falling out of the competition. Your product, company, and business need an application to provide a satisfying mobile experience and win the competition.

Having a mobile app is important and there is no question to that. However, the question most often asked is whether Xamarin Cross Platform Development will be better or a Native App development. Working directly on the client’s target platform or with Xamarin, both will have upsides and downsides. Your company, it’s needed, the audience choice and the development team are the best judges for your choice of platform.

If you find it difficult in hiring an in-house team of developers, you can always choose an outsourced service provider for mobile app development such as VeztekUSA.

The cost is reduced and the time you provide for the final release is when you get the app and running. Aztek is not the online mobile app development company; you have a great number of options-it’s always wise to choose a reputable company. After all, an app is the definition of your products market and a tool for reaching out to your customers.

Below is a list of advantages, as we see, of using Xamarin over the Native app platform:

The Plus Points of Xamarin over Native

Shared Core Code- Xamarin makes code sharing between Android and iOS easy. It makes bug hunt easier and brings no discrepancies in functionalities between platforms. Business logic, networking, navigation logic, parsing logic, view models, and models are easily shared between all versions of the app. The bugs reported in Xamarin apps are handful and platform related only which means that they can be fixed by a single person.

C#- Xamarin platform offers developers to write in C# on all the platforms.  There have been tremendous developments in C# over the years and despite the other programming languages are also great but C# makes it speedy and is safe. The presence of C# helps create readable, clean, and more reliable code because of the recent addition of patterns as implicit typing, LINQ, async method, extension method, and other closures.

.Net and Other C# Libraries- Xamarin supports the latest Microsoft licensed libraries, .Net libraries, and other PCLS. Libraries provide great support in executing the difficult tasks in an effortless manner.

The Downsides of Xamarin

Time Lag- Through Xamarin the interfaces are delivered to the APIs very quickly, sometimes on the same day. However, API is not the only thing that is in the platform, there are other platform tools where Xamarin lags behind. The latest and greatest features on Xamarin Platform require some time, so if you want to use them you will certainly need to wait.

Third-Party Library Support– Xamarin does not offer to bind to all third party libraries, it offers bindings only to some while for the other developers will need to provide it by themselves. This does not leave things simple. Android and iOS have other third party libraries such as UI components which become addictive for mobile users.

.Net Libraries are Not Portable- If you’re planning on using PCL core Library, then you will have a hard time finding a third party library that will offer support. The companies which offer .Net library for an interface don’t support the PCL version yet. This precisely leaves you to rely on the native libraries which have drawbacks.

Summing It Up:

We support using Xamarin, however, with a realistic approach that the positives does not always outweigh negatives. We do not advise on using Xamarin or even Native mobile app development for all of your projects, rather we suggest you look into the following factors and then use the Xamarin platform:

  • Does your app have a large number of on-device logic? Can they be handled and controlled on the backend server? If this is not the case, then you can use the naïve platform because in alternate case the amount of code shared will be minimal.
  • If you want to keep the mobile app running for a longer time and already have a team that develops and maintains C# or .Net languages.
  • Do you intend to use one or more than one Window devices?
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