Choosing a Xamarin license
Xamarin's tools can seem a bit pricy to the casual observer, but I tend to think of it as how much time you will save using a more productive language such as C#. Additionally, their products will save you a good percentage of development time by enabling you to develop a cross-platform application instead of writing it twice in Java and Objective-C.
Xamarin has several editions, so it is good to know the differences in order to determine which license you might need to purchase. The editions are as follows:
- Starter Edition: This is available to individuals only, and it has a limit of 64 KB of compiled user code. Certain features are unavailable such as the Xamarin.Forms framework and calling into third-party native libraries. ...
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