Trigger.io vs Xamarin

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Trigger.io

Stacks9

Followers31

Votes0

Xamarin

Stacks1.3K

Followers1.5K

Votes785

Trigger.io vs Xamarin: What are the differences?

Developers describe Trigger.io as "The simplest way to build amazing mobile apps using the best of HTML5 and native". You write your HTML5 code using the Forge JavaScript API which gives you access to native features such as the camera and contacts API. On the other hand, Xamarin is detailed as "Create iOS, Android and Mac apps in C#". Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

Trigger.io and Xamarin can be primarily classified as "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" tools.

Some of the features offered by Trigger.io are:

Build native apps for iOS and Android using JavaScript
Native UI, push, analytics, login modules "out-of-the box"
Cloud build service, no need to setup Eclipse / Xcode

On the other hand, Xamarin provides the following key features:

Cross-platform development- Thinking about supporting iOS, Android, Mac and Windows? Xamarin allows you to write it all in C#.
Reuse existing code- Use your favorite .NET libraries in Xamarin apps. Easily use third-party native libraries and frameworks.
Discover as you type- Explore APIs as you type with code autocompletion.

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Bhupendra

Web Developer at Ecombooks

Oct 13, 2022

Needs adviceon

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I want to learn cross-platform application frameworks like React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, or Ionic, and I'm a web developer. I can learn other programming languages as well. But I'm confused about what to learn, which framework is best, and which framework will last long as the application grows further into complexity.

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William

CEO at Stealth Startup

Feb 11, 2021

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Amazon DynamoDB

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We are developing an AWS IoT app for large boats. The IoT devices have sensors all over the boat for engine oil pressure, position, water depth, fuel level, crew location, etc. When the boat has internet, we interact with AWS cloud using lambda and Amazon DynamoDB. When the boat is offshore, the captain and crew still need normal and emergency alerts and real-time sensor information. The crew might have an Android or IoS phone or a Windows or macOS PC to receive alerts and interact with sensors. We may use the AWS GreenGrasss edge computing solution and either MQTT or HTML for that function.

Question: We want to develop a cross-platform client to run on Windows, Mac, Android, IOS, and possibly Linux. We are primarily Python programmers, so PyQt or Kivy are options for us, but we have heard good things about React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, and others. We think an AWS Greengrass core on an RPI4 could communicate to the client with MQTT or a local webserver with a client web interface.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

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Saamer

Founder at The First Prototype

Feb 15, 2022

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Expo

We have experience with React Native, Flutter or Xamarin, the lion share of the native cross-platform tools used. They all allow you to create very good user experiences. You can check their reddit pages to see the beautiful designs people recreate. I highly recommend using cross platform tools vs native if your app has generic functionality that doesn't use advanced functionality of the app like VR/AR. So, for something like a dating app without those features, you would probably be better off with cross platform native instead of single platform native (swift/kotlin). If budget is low, a lot of companies have success just using Expo (a framework on top of React Native). It limits you further, but it's the easiest and most affordable to find developers with. Eventually you might decide to move away from it, but at that time ou ll have a lot more money and react native will be an easy tech to move towards.

Xamarin is the oldest of the cross platform native tools and so there's a lot more documentation and supporting libraries.

Flutter is super fast & fluid, and since it uses pixels(skia), it's even more performant than all the other technologies including native single platform. But it doesn't come with the amazing libraries that Xamarin and React Native is able to leverage

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Detailed Comparison

Trigger.io	Xamarin
You write your HTML5 code using the Forge JavaScript API which gives you access to native features such as the camera and contacts API.	Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Build native apps for iOS and Android using JavaScript;Native UI, push, analytics, login modules "out-of-the box";Cloud build service, no need to setup Eclipse / Xcode;Update your app without re-submitting to the App Store;Open platform, extend with hooks, write native modules	Cross-platform development- Thinking about supporting iOS, Android, Mac and Windows? Xamarin allows you to write it all in C#.;Reuse existing code- Use your favorite .NET libraries in Xamarin apps. Easily use third-party native libraries and frameworks.; Discover as you type- Explore APIs as you type with code autocompletion.;Visual Studio or Xamarin Studio- Create, build, debug, and deploy apps in Visual Studio. Or use Xamarin Studio, a fully-featured IDE that is built for mobile app development.;Native UI, Native Performance- Xamarin delivers high performance compiled code with full access to all the native APIs so you can create native apps with device-specific experiences.; Point and Click UI Design- Xamarin provides a world class Android UI designer. Use Apple Xcode UI designer to create interfaces and Storyboards that automatically sync with your Xamarin.iOS project.
Statistics
Stacks 9	Stacks 1.3K
Followers 31	Followers 1.5K
Votes 0	Votes 785
Pros & Cons
No community feedback yet	Pros 121 Power of c# on mobile devices 81 Native performance 79 Native apps with native ui controls 73 No javascript - truely compiled code 67 Sharing more than 90% of code over all platforms Cons 9 Build times 5 Visual Studio 4 Price 3 Complexity 3 Scalability
Integrations
Firebase Flurry Salesforce Sales Cloud Parse Rackspace Cloud Files TestFlight Urban Airship	No integrations available

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Framework7

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Expo

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Vue Native

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