We performed a comparison between IBM MobileFirst and Xamarin Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about OutSystems, Mendix, Salesforce and others in Mobile Development Platforms."I like Its capability for developing hybrid applications, with an ability to integrate device-native code as well"
"With help of this product, we have been able to develop mobile applications without having complete knowledge of each mobile OS's native programming technology. App development, delivery, and code management have been very efficient using this product."
"IBM MobileFirst has one of the most feature-rich admin panels."
"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."
"The cross platform ability is a great asset."
"The solution's most valuable asset is its shared code base in C# that is better for large apps."
"The best part while using the Xamarin Platform is a cross-platform application. We could execute iOS and Android while writing a single line of code."
"Cross-platform development saves time and provides consistencies."
"Xamarin Platform enables you to use a single code language. This is beneficial for Android, iOS, and Windows platforms, so they can be developed over application or built over application."
"It significantly reduces development and test costs, and ensures that there is synergy between the platforms on product features and user experience."
"We were able to optimize the service organization for one of our clients."
"There are issues with push notifications, especially for Windows mobile apps. JSONStore also crashes abruptly at times."
"I would like to see improved support for native device functions."
"The architecture in the Xamarin Platform has to improve, there are some features missing."
"Xamarin Platform's performance base could be improved."
"The application platform could be improved."
"It is common to find a problem that you would need to develop from the start since there are no third-party components to reuse."
"The major I see with Xamarin right now is that there is no visual editor"
"I feel that the Android AppCompat library creates a lot of issues. A lot of development time is often wasted solving these issues."
"I would like to see hot reload, similar to what Flutter has out-of-the-box. There is "Live Reload" but it’s still in preview and was only recently announced."
"From time to time, it is a bit harder to code some specific scenarios compared to the native approach."
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IBM MobileFirst is ranked 14th in Mobile Development Platforms while Xamarin Platform is ranked 6th in Mobile Development Platforms with 38 reviews. IBM MobileFirst is rated 8.4, while Xamarin Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM MobileFirst writes "It provides access management for the enterprise user as well as for the consumer". 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". IBM MobileFirst is most compared with IBM MaaS360, Ionic, SAP Mobile Platform and Microsoft Azure App Service, whereas Xamarin Platform is most compared with Appium, Ionic, OutSystems, Apple Xcode and Mendix.
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