CHAPTER 12

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XAMARIN vs. HMAD

Objectives of this chapter:

  • Learn about managed applications
  • Understand how Xamarin works
  • Understand the pros and cons of using Xamarin
  • Compare Xamarin with HMAD

Xamarin is an interesting platform for mobile application development. The motive behind Xamarin is the same as that of hybrid mobile applications! Just as you define HTML5-based hybrid applications and after packaging deploy them on various platforms, Xamarin does a similar thing.

The basic difference is that with Xamarin, you code in C#.

Introduction to Managed Applications

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