We performed a comparison between Salesforce Platform 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."We use this solution to track customer activities, opportunities and contact information."
"It is a platform that allows you to get applications quickly to the end user in a secure way."
"The solution is used to track our customers."
"The reporting capabilities are pretty user-friendly."
"It is an easy product to use and does great things for our company. It keeps track of all of our sales activity."
"I'm not sure what the most valuable aspect of the solution is, but I can say that their finance and auditing systems are quite impressive. You can audit in different invoices right to procurement. It's all quite seamless."
"We also use Salesforce to find trends to make informed decisions in terms of events and marketing campaigns."
"The Salesforce Platform's most valuable features are everything in one place, perfect reporting, highly customizable, and easy to receive information you need."
"Cross-platform development saves time and provides consistencies."
"Recently, Xamarin has added a lot of features such as Effects, Behaviors, Triggers, etc. This has made the UI user-friendly, lively, and attractive."
"Being able to use the .NET framework and platform have me creating applications better than anyone who develops on Windows."
"I think the best part about Xamarin is that you can create apps for both platforms using one source code. That's the most powerful feature. When you develop something for Android, it also builds for iVerse as well. The cross-platform aspect of Xamarin is unique. The ability to develop both apps with a single code base is something very unique."
"The most valuable features of the Xamarin Platform are that it has cross-platform development, one code base serves a purpose on both, and the grid layout is a lifesaver."
"The solution is easy to understand and has banking integrated. The shorter development time, the bugging and as well as availability of a lot of documentation on the web. Also the native integration is easy."
"A single line of code works with android and iOS."
"On the market, compared to everyone else, they're the top solution. They're the best solution out there that I could see."
"The interface could be more user-friendly and offer more customization."
"There is always room for improvement. It can be hard to learn, but when you have somebody who is experienced in this, it is like anything else. It is like Excel, you'll never know everything about Excel, but there's somebody who would possibly know. I'm sure I don't know all of the ins and outs of Salesforce."
"Salesforce Platform could improve the UI and the responsiveness of their servers. The UI needs to be made user-friendly for all users."
"Pricing is the biggest factor. The cost right now is too high and I've had a lot of clients leave."
"It does need very specific resources to help deploy it and buy in from the users. It's one of those items it's pretty disruptive and if it's not deployed properly and if it doesn't get utilized efficiently, it won't be effective."
"The pricing of the solution is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement since, right now, I am not sure if Salesforce Platform has any plans for start-ups or small businesses."
"The back end really isn't user-friendly at all."
"I think the interface should be enhanced and more user-friendly."
"There is limited support for UX widgets."
"The debugging functionality could be improved in Xamarin Platform because sometimes it takes very long to move through the stages of setting up the application build to the final deployment on a mobile app that resides in a physical device."
"There are compatibility issues between versions of various Xamarin components."
"For those who use only XAML to design the UI, it would be better if there was a better XAML previewer or designer."
"In Xamarin.Forms, we have the option to preview our UI designs, but the functionality can be limited. So, this is not fully functional. Since I have some knowledge of iOS, where when you write code or design in the storyboard, your design is immediately visible in the preview."
"It needs offline sync capabilities to store data on devices persistently."
"Xamarin Platform's performance base could be improved."
"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."
Salesforce Platform is ranked 3rd in Mobile Development Platforms with 80 reviews while Xamarin Platform is ranked 6th in Mobile Development Platforms with 39 reviews. Salesforce Platform is rated 8.2, while Xamarin Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Salesforce Platform writes "Reliable with good reporting and custom dashboards". 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". Salesforce Platform is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Oracle Application Express (APEX), Microsoft Azure, Appian and ServiceNow, whereas Xamarin Platform is most compared with Appium, Ionic, OutSystems, Apple Xcode and Mendix. See our Salesforce Platform vs. Xamarin Platform report.
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