We performed a comparison between OutSystems 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 most valuable feature is Agile development. I love that you save a lot of time on development and can focus on logic and business requirements."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it allows users to easily build applications."
"OutSystems' low-cost approach has positively impacted our productivity, because we were able to develop faster with OutSystems, enabling us to implement many changes during our sprint."
"The tool makes the development process easier."
"Refactoring with TrueChange is very simple."
"I find it to be a genuinely cool and effective platform for my development needs."
"OutSystems is a low-code solution. Most features are like drag-and-drop, so it's pretty easy to work. Thus it helps the organization by saving time for developers."
"The most important features of this tool are its visual modeling capabilities and drag and drop functionality. You can see what you are coding which makes it easy to understand and maintain. They have also created a big revolution in digital transformation by introducing native mobile app development under the same IDE."
"It is a true native solution, and we can use the cross-platform framework."
"The cross platform ability is a great asset."
"Test Cloud, Calabash, SpecFlow, and Xamarin.UITest are the features which can’t be ignored because just writing code doesn’t mean your app will run flawlessly. You need to test your app on each possible device and configuration, which you can do easily."
"You can create one solution in C Sharp."
"Cross-platform development saves time and provides consistencies."
"It significantly reduces development and test costs, and ensures that there is synergy between the platforms on product features and user experience."
"Xamarin makes it easy to create white label applications for all platforms."
"The solution's most valuable asset is its shared code base in C# that is better for large apps."
"In my opinion, the support and the pricing could be better."
"The installation is a bit tedious."
"It is hard to find the logic in OutSystems. From an improvement perspective, I want to be able to properly use logic in OutSystems."
"The solution is costly."
"The integration Studio could be improved. It needs a tool in which we could develop C# code and then integrate into OutSystems. The application could have a better UI."
"The latest version of the app generation tools could be more user-friendly."
"The product's high price is an area of concern, where improvements are required."
"We have performance issues while fetching bulk data."
"The application platform could be improved."
"The recent move to .NET MAUI is a big change that's affecting a lot of the good features."
"The solution does not include Hot Reload which is painful because it causes us to wait quite some time for huge builds."
"Xamarin Platform can improve if there was a virtual test environment so we did not have to have a Mac system for the iOS testing. At this time You must have a Mac to deploy or generate IBA profiles."
"The performance needs improvement, especially the dev tools, and also the ultimate output of the mobile applications."
"The solution struggles a little bit with binding libraries."
"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."
"Regarding improvements, there are still some limitations with Xamarin, particularly regarding access to core functionality in Android and iOS."
OutSystems is ranked 1st in Mobile Development Platforms with 46 reviews while Xamarin Platform is ranked 6th in Mobile Development Platforms with 38 reviews. OutSystems is rated 8.4, while Xamarin Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of OutSystems writes "The visual program provides the advantage of only requiring one skill set for both the front and backend ". 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". OutSystems is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Appian, Mendix, ServiceNow and Unqork, whereas Xamarin Platform is most compared with Appium, Ionic, Apple Xcode, Mendix and Microsoft Azure App Service. See our OutSystems vs. Xamarin Platform report.
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