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Pros And Cons Of Using Xamarin & Future In Android Application

8. Pros and Cons of using Xamarin

Pros

  • It gives access to native APIs so you can create native apps which are device specific
  • It allows you to keep native UI across all three platforms allowing to share code base.
  • Powerful debugging capabilities
  • Allows to use familiar development tools and languages

Cons

  • Applications developed with xamarin have built-in overhead
  • Visual Studio plus Xamarin cost can be more for some.

Mobile application marketing is on a high demand these days as these have become a way to earn revenues by the companies. Over 65% of global smart phone users use android operating systems. Android application are not limited only to smart phones. Now a days Cameras, televisions, watches, refrigerators all have android applications installed on them.

With such a huge number of users around the globe the demand for Android developers has surely increased. With new tools like Xamarin allowing the developers to build the application using C# which is one of the most popular language among developer will make android application development more popular.

10. References

https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/android/

https://nnish.com/2013/06/12/how-i-built-an-android-app-in-c-visual-studio-in-less-than-24hrs/

https://developer.xamarin.com/samples-all/

Mobile Development with C# By Greg Shackles

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