Five
core
reasons
to
use
Xamarin
for
cross-platform
development of mobile applications.
The mobile development market is growing at a phenomenal rate due to massive consumer mobility. This is already big, and it is getting bigger there is no end in sight. Mobile developers are booming in the market, and a large number of mobile applications has hit new heights. Mobile app developers are facilitators and promoters of themobile revolution. Revenue generated from mobile app industry is skyrocketing and providing the opportunity to mobile app developers and businesses to strengthen their presence. A Large number of organizations are adopting mobile and realizing the need to offer tablet and smartphone access to their online business. It is increasingly becoming important for the organizations to rapidly develop and deploy apps with the help of cross-platform development tools. These development platforms are growing over 38%, and by the end of 2017, it will reach $4.8 billion. According to Gartner, it is expected that more than 20 million enterprise apps will be developed by the end of 2018. Growing number of investment and acquisition in enterprise mobile app development isevidence of the growth prediction in mobile app development industry. Gartner also suggested that the mobile apps are downloaded more than 268 billion and generating revenue of more than $77billion which is making mobile apps most popular computing tools for the users across the globe.
Moreover, Flurry suggested that an average American is spending more than 162 minutes per day on iOS Android devices. Theabove-mentionedstatistics and growth of mobile app development industry indicate that there are multiple mobile application development platforms. In order to select the best, a business needs a strategy which will be able to deliver theapplication in time of high demand. There are also increasing demand of Xamarin in Dubai and Microsoft Dubai is taking several initiatives to promote this platform for hybrid mobile application development in Dubai. Focus on end user not only help you to identify the strategy for app development, but it will also allow you to decide which platform is suitable for you. The use of multiple platforms in application development improve the process of application development and increase the testing time which adversely affects the release cycle.in this regard,Xamarin as mobile cross platforms hasbroken the records in mobile app development industry. So why Xamarin is a key player in mobile cross platform development market? We have rounded up five core reasons for anenterprise looking to expand their mobile app development effort by making the use of Xamarin. 1. Native applications The native design is the most preferred solution for a mobile application development. Xamarin is known for providing native look and feels to an application. Xamarinoffersnative API, native
user interface, and native performance. Control over thenative user interface not only allow the app to look in a way the user expect, but it also enables it to behave as per user expectations too. Xamarin app with access to the full spectrum of functionality offer platform-specific capabilities. Xamarin apps by leveraging the platform specific hardware acceleration are compiled for native performance. The uniqueapproach of Xamarin includes Xamarin Studio (IDE) which enable code completion in C#. Xamarin enables code sharing across platforms which shorten the development cycle.
2. Shared app logic Other than sharing native UI Xamarin is also known for sharing logic across multiple platforms. Shared app logic feature make this a must use cross application development platforms. Application logic includesinput validation, web service calls, interactions with thedatabase, backend enterprise integration coded one in c#.Xamarin allows developers to share 75% codes across various platforms and operating systems. Xamarin enabling developers to share the logic saves thetime required to record and decreases the chances of having bugs in application development.
3. API integration Xamarin integrates API and UI control in order to build iOS, Android and Mac apps in their respective platform-specific languages. Xamarin Microsoft Visual studio integrates window phone and window 8 application. Xamarin by making the use of Portable Class Libraries and appropriate application architecture allow the developer to share the code between iOS, Android, and Windows. Support is always there, and these unique binding web development solutions enable developers to provide support for new features after introducing it in the operating system of the device. You can click on respective platform links for the latest support packages for iOS 8 and Android L.
4. Xamarin Component Store Xamarin Component store launched in 2013 with an objective to help developers for building apps with less time and efforts and to add great features to it.Xamarin believes in increasing collaboration and sharing. This store has a catalog of stunning UI controls, charts and graphs, beautiful themes, cloud services and other powerful features that a developer can add to its app in minutes. The component store is built as an extension in both Xamarin studio and a visual studio of Xamarin.
5. Advantages of C# C# is the modern version of C++ programming language. It is simple, modern, general-purpose, type-safe and object-oriented programming language. As a project-oriented programming language, it allows simple data type to be treated as objects. Type safety feature of C# suggests
that it help the developers to reduce errors. C# minimize or eliminate the use of pointer and header in order to simplify the syntax. C# is a most preferred programming language for crossplatform mobile application development. Conclusion It is impossible to ignore king of cross-platformdevelopment which is Xamarin. Rich features and resulting benefits of Xamarin are enough to allow the developer to build a perfectcrossplatform native application. Other than above-mentioned core 5 reasons an ever growing community of 700,000 plus developers is an additional reason for using Xamarin because they are continuously collaborating and enhancing the software.
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