Chapter 7Xamarin
Time and time again in my journey as a mobile developer, clients have asked about cross-platform tools. “We want an iOS and an Android app; can we do that with less time and money with tool x?” they ask. I have to confess to feeling irritated by this sort of question. For many reasons, some valid, some perhaps elitist, I have a gut feeling that mobile development should be done with the official tools.
On the other hand, some of my reluctance to use anything but the platform-native frameworks is due to the number of bad apps out there built with shortcut solutions, especially those that try to use a web view as the shortcut. Then again, developing apps can’t happen in a vacuum. If there’s no business reason to build apps, developers ...
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