Microsoft may have ended their support for native mobile applications, but they continue to promote platform-agnostic solutions for development teams. After their purchase of Xamarin in 2016, Xamarin.Forms has seen considerable growth in popularity, and since .NET Standard and .NET Core provides an easy and intuitive way to create and manage libraries for all target
The IT world is rapidly changing with the recent technologies precisely focusing on mobility. Mobile applications available on smartphones have become vastly more complicated and demanding compared to a decade ago when the applications were still in infancy. According to Gartner Inc., smartphone sales reached 2.1 billion units by the end of 2019, which has
“If you can afford it, use Native” is one of the most common things you get to hear when it comes to selecting which technology to use for mobile app development. The reality of it is usually not that straight-forward. The questions that should be asked before development would be on the lines of –
When your enterprise plans to launch an app, which path do you pick: Native app development or Cross-platform app development? 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
As a developer, we all know the capabilities of Xamarin and this blog is specifically for .Net developers who are ready to dive into the mobile world. Xamarin, an open source framework help mobile app developers in developing applications for Android, iOS, and UWP (Universal Windows Platform) which is commonly written in C# or XAML.
A- Xamarin + Azure Meeting of Azure with Xamarin is both interesting and productive to know. With Xamarin and Azure every C# developer is full-stack mobile app developer. Their joint effort allows developers to build applications in their favorite language. Now they can simply leave behind the platform-specific languages and can share a single codebase
Entity Framework Core of course works on Xamarin Forms, but only with the Android and Universal Windows Platform. It does not work well with iOS which is little sad thing for iOS. For those with only Android or UWP, let’s have a close look on how to implement Entity Framework Core, in Xamarin Forms with
iOS 10 SDK is in the market. Apple has added various new APIs and services for the developers to create new categories of apps and features. Let us first see what’s new in Xamarin for iOS 10: Xamarin 10.0 Pre-Requisites Last version supporting classic profile (i.e. `monotouch.dll`) was Xamarin. iOS 9.10 which was quite similar
