Chapter 1. Setting Up Xamarin
Xamarin's development tools have given us the power to develop native iOS, Android, and Mac applications in C#, which is one of the most popular programming languages. There are many advantages of choosing Xamarin to develop mobile applications instead of Java and Objective-C. You can share code between both the platforms and can be more productive by taking advantage of the advanced language features of C# and the .NET base class libraries. Alternatively, you would have to write the app twice for Android and iOS and lose the benefits of garbage collection when using Objective-C.
In comparison to other techniques of developing cross-platform applications with JavaScript and HTML, Xamarin also has some distinct advantages. ...
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