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Android SDK vs Xamarin Forms

Overview

Android SDK

Stacks27.4K

Followers20.7K

Votes800

Xamarin Forms

Stacks347

Followers278

Votes5

Advice on Android SDK, Xamarin Forms

Omran

CTO & Co-founder at Bonton Connect

Jun 19, 2020

Needs adviceon

Kotlin

We actually initially wrote a lot of networking code in Kotlin but the complexities involved prompted us to try and compile NodeJS for Android and port over all the networking logic to Node and communicate with node over the Java Native Interface.

This turned out to be a great decision considering our battery usage fell by 40% and rate of development increased by a factor of 2.

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Detailed Comparison

Android SDK	Xamarin Forms
Android provides a rich application framework that allows you to build innovative apps and games for mobile devices in a Java language environment.	A mobile application framework for building user interfaces.It easily create native user interface layouts that can be shared across Android, iOS, and Windows Phone.
Statistics
Stacks 27.4K	Stacks 347
Followers 20.7K	Followers 278
Votes 800	Votes 5
Pros & Cons
Pros 289 Android development 156 Necessary for android 128 Android studio 86 Mobile framework 82 Backed by google	Pros 5 Native Development SDK with shared C# code-base
Integrations
Java	No integrations available

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