What is Xamarin Forms?
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.
Xamarin Forms is a tool in the Cross-Platform Mobile Development category of a tech stack.
Who uses Xamarin Forms?
Companies
22 companies reportedly use Xamarin Forms in their tech stacks, including Rumble, everything, and mutor GmbH.
Developers
278 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Xamarin Forms.
Pros of Xamarin Forms
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Decisions about Xamarin Forms
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Xamarin Forms in their tech stack.
Omilegan Daniel
Application Developer at FlexSystems Infotech Solutions · | 3 upvotes · 216.6K views
I'm a C# .NET Core developer. As mobile app development sells more, I hope to upgrade my career to a mobile app developer. I'm looking at Xamarin Forms or Java. What would you advise?
Thanks
Xamarin Forms Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Xamarin Forms?
React Native
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Flutter
Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and Android.
Android Studio
Android Studio is a new Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA. It provides new features and improvements over Eclipse ADT and will be the official Android IDE once it's ready.
Android SDK
Android provides a rich application framework that allows you to build innovative apps and games for mobile devices in a Java language environment.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
