Why Xamarin App Development Has Overtaken The Other Hybrid Frameworks?

Mobile apps are continuously gaining popularity these days. The rapid increase in multiple mobile devices, the mobile computing power, growing bandwidth and speed has empowered mobility. Mobile apps are defining people’s lives.

It is evident that if developers can’t reach their targeted audience on any of their mobile devices, then they would be fail to provide them a satisfactory mobile experience. Thus get lagged behind their competitors.

Today, there is no doubt that the native apps are superior over HTML5 or hybrid applications when it comes to performance. However, before choosing the platform for mobile app development, such as iOS, Android, or Windows, developers need to carefully analyze their audience and their own business requirements.

It may be much more cost-effective and beneficial to create a cross-platform applications. Those apps run on multiple platform efficiently. For this, Xamarin Cross Platform Application Development should be considered. It is one of the strongest and most efficient cross platform mobile app development tool.

Xamarin is a popular app development framework which comes with the write-once-run-anywhere rule. It is beneficial for mainly three platforms: iOS, Android, and Windows. This platform empowers the developers to write the code in a single code base and in a single language for their app. In this way, a cross-platform app would reach out to billions of mobile devices irrespective of their platforms.

Xamarin delivers the perfect look and feel to an app as the native UI of any platform with native app performance and power-packed functionality. It eliminates the necessity to manage individual development team for each platform.

Shareable Code

It is little difficult for the cross platform and hybrid app developers to create different codes for different mobile platforms. Because, they should have in-depth knowledge and experience of development of native applications.

Xamarin enables the shared app logic. It underlies an UI layer for web service calls, database integration, input validation, and backend integration.

App developers are now able to share the single code easily with the help of suitable application architecture and PCL (Portable Class Libraries) of Xamarin. With the help of this technology, they can share almost 70% of their code across different platforms without any compatibility problems. And the remaining part of the code would require management from the developers’ side.

With Xamarin app development, it becomes comparatively easier as it only works with C# for coding. C# is a native language for the Windows apps. It has all the characteristics which are needed as a native programming language.

Native User Experience

With Xamarin.Forms, developers can write the native UIs for one platform and convert these UIs into the platform-specific ones. They are also allowed to share it with the other mobile OS platforms. Hence, app developers can get the native UI support for Windows, Android, iOS, and Blackberry Phones.

Thus, Xamarin let the developers to use OS specific and device-specific features easily. In spite of hybrid apps, developers can create native user experience. Additionally, Xamarin’s latest version introduced some new features such as Lollipop and Marshmallow Map, fragments, and Fingerprint Authentication,. These features are purely native, still used by Xamarin.

Benefits Of C#

C# is a development language for Windows. It has the required characteristics, standards, and properties. Like:

C# is a general purpose language.

It is an easy and simple language to learn and understand

It is a flexible programming language, support the framework of ASP.NET

It is a pure object oriented language along with various advantages

It can easily create asynchronous programming environment

It eliminates the usage of headers, namespace, pointers, and reference operators and replaced them by the period

It treats data types as objects. Thus, it cuts the additional efforts of coding that define an object frequently. 

Collaboration

With Xamarin Component Store, developers are able to exchange and switch the available components. These can be done with a few lines of code, allows the sharing of data easily. Those Component Store include:

UI controls

Third party web services

Cross-platform libraries

Cost-Effective

Xamarin is considered as one of the best tools when it comes to save the money that spend on the app development. There would be no need of investing money in the development of those infrastructure which is native. Additionally, companies don’t have to spend extra money on the separate team of native app developers. They needed only one team of Xamarin developers that meet company’s requirements and goals.

Conclusion

When compared to the other hybrid frameworks, Xamarin App Development utilizes the latest technologies. It has the unique UI tools and API for achieving the native-like performance and UX. Developers are switching from the existing and common cross-platform frameworks to the Xamarin technology.

Xamarin is getting popular among the hybrid app developer communities due to the features of C# and the strong support of Microsoft. Xamarin also has the unique cross-platform technologies. Companies which are aiming to the cross-platform apps, preferring Xamarin technology.