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We performed a comparison between SAP Mobile 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.
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Pros
"It's not that difficult to set up.""Technical support is helpful.""Both platforms, the SAP Mobile Platform, and SAP, are highly valuable for our company because they facilitate integration, which can be expensive. It's very convenient to connect and create billing accounts through the SAP Mobile Platform.""Two of the very fascinating features that make SAP Mobile Platform stand out from other platforms are its offline capability and integration capability.""One valuable feature of SAP Mobile Platform is its enterprise-grade standard and maintained APIs, available out of the box for easy integration with various systems.""The initial setup is not overly complex."

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"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.""My favorite feature of Xamarin platform is the Xamarin.Essentials package. I also like the changes seen in Xamarin's upgrade from Xamarin.Forms to .NET MAUI, because in the older Xamarin Platform, Xamarin.Forms gave you multiple libraries of a particular level for a single platform, whereas .NET MAUI comprises a single, organized library that contains everything needed for both Android and iOS.""The initial setup is very simple.""You can create one solution in C Sharp.""I like Renderers in Xamarin. They allow us to use native-platform controls easily.""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.""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."

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Cons
"SAP has announced that they'll be ending the support on the SAP platform.""One drawback is that SAP Mobile Platform apps are only available through the browser, making offline capability more challenging to implement.""If it was low code or no code it would be ideal.""The cost of the SAP Mobile Platform is high, and there is room for improvement in its pricing.""The toolkit to develop front end applications, especially native applications, is not that good.""The licensing model is a bit dated."

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"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.""The performance needs improvement, especially the dev tools, and also the ultimate output of the mobile applications.""Xamarin Platform lacks in app size.""From time to time, it is a bit harder to code some specific scenarios compared to the native approach.""There are compatibility issues between versions of various Xamarin components.""The recent move to .NET MAUI is a big change that's affecting a lot of the good features.""We'd like to have some chat support functionality.""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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "If you already paying for an SAP license and have SAP products that you are using, the price for SAP Mobile Platform is negligible."
  • "The cost of SAP is extremely high, and it's not affordable for everyone."
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  • "In most cases, it is sufficient to have free/community license. But if you plan to seriously develop production-level, highly polished apps, you need to use Xamarin.Profiler and the professional or enterprise license."
  • "For personal use, the Community Edition is free."
  • "This is a free product, so there is zero investment on licenses and IDE."
  • "Xamarin is available under several licensing arrangements. Each developer needs one license at least. All features, especially the Profiler, unlock only with the highest tier."
  • "It saved a lot of time and resources needed to develop a cross platform mobile app."
  • "Xamarin is free, or comes with Visual Studio. Therefore, it is very profitable."
  • "The price of the Xamarin Platform is not expensive. However, the price of the solution depends on the application that is made. For example, if you have small applications, it's different from large or enterprise applications."
  • "There's no licensing cost for Xamarin."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Both platforms, the SAP Mobile Platform, and SAP, are highly valuable for our company because they facilitate integration, which can be expensive It's very convenient to connect and create billing… more »
    Top Answer:The cost of SAP is extremely high, and it's not affordable for everyone.
    Top Answer:The cost of the SAP Mobile Platform is high, and there is room for improvement in its pricing.
    Top Answer:Xamarin.Forms reduced the effort and time to build and market our solution, market our features, and get our solution into production.
    Top Answer:You can build in Xamarin without paying any money. What costs money is the IDE, Visual Studio, Professional, or Enterprise edition. What would cost you money if you're building apps for the Apple… more »
    Top Answer:There are issues with Xamarin, such as when you run into errors doing something called linking. When you build your solution, you can use Linker, which can give you errors if you don't link properly… more »
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    Also Known As
    SAP Syclo Agentry Mobile Platform, Sybase Mobile Development Platform, Sybase Unwired Platform
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    Overview

    SAP Mobile Platform is a mobile enterprise application platform developed to make it easier to create applications that connect business data to mobile devices for workflow management and back-office integration. SAP Mobile Platform provides a layer of middleware between heterogeneous back-end data sources such as relational databases, enterprise applications and files, and mobile devices that need to read and write back-end data. The platform is very helpful to developers, making it quick and easy for them to link backend data to mobile users on any device at any time and providing them with optimum visibility, which leads to increased profitability.

    Using SAP Mobile Platform’s development tools, application developers can write the business logic for mobile applications, as the platform is optimized for business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) relationships. The program automatically does the translation necessary to create specialized versions of the new application for a variety of mobile devices and operating systems. This enables quicker and simpler development of complex applications that use multiple data sources and function on a variety of mobile devices. SAP Mobile Platform currently provides advantages across numerous industries to customers of all sizes and backgrounds.

    SAP Mobile Platform Features

    SAP Mobile Platform has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Appcelerator
    • Support for Cordova
    • Eclipse plug-in
    • Mobile Analytics Kit (MAKit)
    • Secure access between mobile devices and networks
    • Mobile SDK
    • Hybrid Web Container
    • 4GL tooling environment
    • Integrated mobile device management and app enablement
    • Support for multiple devices, including Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Windows laptops/tablets.
    • Integrates with SAP, Remedy Corp, and other apps that leverage database or service-oriented architecture.
    • Unwired Platform Runtime

    SAP Mobile Platform Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing SAP Mobile Platform. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Customizable: SAP Mobile Platform is useful for developing mobile applications as well as for customizing previously existing ones in accordance with requirements and demands.
    • User-friendly: SAP Mobile Platform develops applications in a powerful and friendly environment that works within any mobile device.
    • Customer loyalty: Making user-friendly mobile applications that work on all devices encourages engaging loyal customers and staff in improved operations and cutting back on unneeded costs.
    • Business impact: SAP Mobile Platform has built platforms and mobile solutions that can be extensively used in any device, allowing businesses to grasp the true impact of SAP Mobile Platform on their business growth.
    • Multi-platform support: Developers may create applications on several platforms using their skill set and preferred tools, which reduces the amount of time, money, and effort required for development.
    • Secure: SAP Mobile Platform provides cutting-edge technology to speed up the creation of safe, highly scalable commercial mobile applications for every device.

    Reviews from Real Users

    SAP Mobile Platform stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. These include its integration with mobile devices, its stability, and its technical support. One PeerSpot user takes note of the advantages of these features in his review:

    Kumar S., Director - SAP BTP at Incture, writes, “The platform independence is great. I can use it across mobile devices. That's the best aspect of it. It's stable. Technical support is helpful.”

    Xamarin is an open-source platform for developing modern and performant applications for iOS, Android, and Windows using.NET. Xamarin is an abstraction layer that manages how shared code is communicated to the platform's underlying code. Xamarin is for developers with the two following goals:

    • Cross-platform sharing of code, tests, and business logic.

    • Writing cross-platform apps in C# with Visual Studio.

    Xamarin allows developers to share an average of 90% of their program across platforms. This enables programmers to achieve native performance, look, and feel on each platform while writing all of their business logic in a single language (or reusing existing application code).

    Xamarin applications can be created on a PC or a Mac and compiled into native application packages, such as an .apk file for Android or an .ipa file for iOS.

    Xamarin Platform Features

    Xamarin Platform has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Complete binding for the supporting SDKs: Xamarin includes bindings for almost all of the underlying platform SDKs in iOS and Android.
    • Java, C, Objective-C, C, C++ Interop: Xamarin gives you the ability to use a variety of third-party code by providing tools for directly invoking Objective-C, Java, C, and C++ libraries.
    • Modern language constructs: Xamarin applications are written in C#, a modern language with many capabilities that Objective-C and Java do not have, like lambdas, LINQ, parallel programming, generics, and more.
    • Strong base class library (BCL): Xamarin apps use the .NET BCL, a large collection of classes with streamlined features, like powerful XML, database, serialization, IO, string, and networking support, among others.

    Xamarin Platform Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing the Xamarin Platform. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Native UIs and APIs: Xamarin delivers comprehensive access to each platform's native SDK and UI controls, projecting the entire native API of each device into C#. Therefore, the apps you develop are native instead of write-once/run-anywhere programs that look alien on every platform. Xamarin provides you access to all of the capabilities that distinguish each platform.
    • Share code between platforms: With Xamarin, you can share all code across platforms while providing a native user interface tailored to each individual device. With Xamarin, you can execute the same C# code on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. With Xamarin, your software is compiled to a native binary rather than being interpreted, in contrast to other cross-platform frameworks. Even in the most demanding situations, native compilation provides users with excellent app performance. Xamarin provides responsive, multi-user input and feedback, fluid scrolling, sophisticated graphics and animations, complicated data visualization, and realistic high frame rates for games.
    • Code with C#: Write shorter, more concise, and more maintainable code by leveraging advanced language features, such as Language Integrated Query (LINQ), delegates, lambdas, events, garbage collection, and many other features. With Xamarin's fully extensible platform, you can include libraries written in C, Objective-C, C++, or Java. In C#, you have access to the entire native ecosystem of components and libraries.

    Sample Customers
    Swarovski, CareFusion Corp., Adarsh Credit Co-operative Society Ltd.
    Cinemark, MixRadio, Sqor Sports, Storyo, JetBlue, The World Bank, Cr_dito Agrcola, Applied Research Associates
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Manufacturing Company12%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Government10%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm29%
    Music Company14%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Computer Software Company14%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Educational Organization8%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business50%
    Midsize Enterprise38%
    Large Enterprise13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise67%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business47%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise41%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise60%
    Buyer's Guide
    SAP Mobile Platform vs. Xamarin Platform
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about SAP Mobile Platform vs. Xamarin Platform and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    SAP Mobile Platform is ranked 12th in Mobile Development Platforms with 7 reviews while Xamarin Platform is ranked 5th in Mobile Development Platforms with 37 reviews. SAP Mobile Platform is rated 8.0, while Xamarin Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SAP Mobile Platform writes "Flexible, well-designed, and offers good scalability". 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". SAP Mobile Platform is most compared with Android SDK, OutSystems, Ionic and IBM MobileFirst, whereas Xamarin Platform is most compared with Appium, Ionic, OutSystems, Apple Xcode and Tricentis Tosca. See our SAP Mobile Platform vs. Xamarin Platform report.

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