We performed a comparison between GeneXus and Xamarin Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Mobile Development Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution provides ease of programming and the speed of delivery of demands."
"With GeneXus, we can create logical representations of transactions in the form of objects."
"In Knowledge Base, being able to model the workflow before developing the screens is great. We first work with the tables or the transactions using GeneXus and then we work on the screens."
"It is fast in creating systems and connects to the database quickly."
"I find the implementation process of GeneXus to be easy."
"The front-end features are the most valuable."
"The integration module is the most valuable feature of this solution for our business, as it allows our clients to create new systems based on their outdated databases, across all API's."
"With the solution, I can work a normal day. I can plan my work and any other activities for days ahead."
"Xamarin Platform's best features are its single codebase, the support from Microsoft, and the free libraries."
"Plugins like MvvmCross make a developer’s life easy."
"It allows us to reuse our knowledge of C# and .NET Framework."
"The most important impact is the reduction in product lifecycle costs."
"Xamarin makes it easy to create white label applications for all platforms."
"The most valuable features are: One language for all platforms: C#; XAML for UI in Xamarin.Forms; provides 100 percent coverage of APIs on each platform."
"On the market, compared to everyone else, they're the top solution. They're the best solution out there that I could see."
"It is a true native solution, and we can use the cross-platform framework."
"I told them to add something about Angular. They're already working on adding it."
"Documentation is always an issue. In order to develop with GeneXus, there is very little documentation. The documentation is not clear enough in order to develop a great tool."
"We would like to see more extensions and more user controls added to the front-end of this solution, in order to help developers manage the website."
"There are issues in integrating it with other solutions."
"The tool needs to be tuned before being used. You need some experience to get the best out of the tool."
"It would be helpful to have additional assisted processing with training."
"GeneXus's user interface has room for improvement."
"The graphical interface could be improved. I also notice some performance problems on hardware that should be more than adequate. GeneXus uses a lot of RAM and other computer resources."
"The solution struggles a little bit with binding libraries."
"The worst build issue concerns are the caching process MSBuild uses to reduce the build time."
"We have noticed that there have been stability-based performance issues with this product, which need to be improved."
"Xamarin Platform is missing the code renderer."
"For those who use only XAML to design the UI, it would be better if there was a better XAML previewer or designer."
"The recent move to .NET MAUI is a big change that's affecting a lot of the good features."
"They need to improve performance, especially for the Android platform. Also, some controls are missing in the Xamarin framework when compared to native controls; for example, the checkbox control."
"They need to take a step towards independence from the UI platform. It takes a lot of time to adapt the native controls."
GeneXus is ranked 8th in Mobile Development Platforms with 13 reviews while Xamarin Platform is ranked 4th in Mobile Development Platforms with 39 reviews. GeneXus is rated 8.6, while Xamarin Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of GeneXus writes "Fast, stable, and allows us to model a workflow before developing the screens". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Xamarin Platform writes "It's about to be retired and replaced with an inferior product, but offers excellent cross-platform development capabilities". GeneXus is most compared with Oracle Application Express (APEX), Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Mendix and Magic xpa Application Platform, whereas Xamarin Platform is most compared with Ionic, Appium, Apple Xcode, OutSystems and Mendix. See our GeneXus vs. Xamarin Platform report.
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