Xamarin and HTML5

[imbault]

Hi, My organization (we are 80000 worldwide) is setting conclusions of "the virtual team regardling mobile app dev" (I wasn't involved in):
Conclusions are: HTML5 and Xamarin

Any opinions on this point of view please??

Xamarin, I don't know.
Html5, I know the limits...

Thanks

 

[KMatle]

We (as big as your organization) use C# and HTML5, too (and some other stuff from Microsoft). It's political, I think.

 

[imbault]

Anyway I keep on using B4a and B4i in my organization, just wanted to get some experiences, advices...

@Erel Is there any code challenges between those 3? HTML5, Xamarin or phonegap and our champion b4x???

 

[Erel]

Sorry but I will not compare B4X to other platforms in the forum.

 

[LucaMs]

Well, I did not know Xamarin, now I read that you need to know c#.
B4A is much more similar to VB.Net and since I know and prefer VB.Net...!

However, since you work for companies with 80,000 employees, get to 80,001 is not a problem, so if you find a hole for me...

 

[imbault]

Sorry but I will not compare B4X to other platforms in the forum.

@Erel it is possible to have your point of view via PM?

 

[Erel]

I never downloaded Xamarin tools so I'm not really familiar with their solution. I believe that they offer a trial version so you should be able to test it.

 

[thedesolatesoul]

Hi, My organization (we are 80000 worldwide) is setting conclusions of "the virtual team regardling mobile app dev" (I wasn't involved in):
Conclusions are: HTML5 and Xamarin

Any opinions on this point of view please??

Xamarin, I don't know.
Html5, I know the limits...

Thanks

80,000 people and you cant find a native developer?
Its harder to find b4x developers, you are 1 out of 80,000 but surely they shouldnt have issues finding platform native resources.

 

[sorex]

$300 - $1900 per year is a bit too much for a hobby I guess

 

[imbault]

80,000 people and you cant find a native developer?
Its harder to find b4x developers, you are 1 out of 80,000 but surely they shouldnt have issues finding platform native resources.

The problem is not finding developper, the problem for me are these conclusions:

HTML5 and Xamarin for mobile dev.

 

[thedesolatesoul]

I see, so these conclusions came about in a different way. No idea how they ended up with that.

 

[sorex]

single code for multi OS is a time saver (if it works).

html5 is still (dead) slow compared to native code tho.

 

[Erel]

single code for multi OS is a time saver (if it works).

Xamarin doesn't support such a feature.

 

[sorex]

Xamarin doesn't support such a feature.

that's what they claim but that's commercial blah blah to attract people, dunno if it is what the quote claims tho maybe it's just shared modules like we can do in B4A.

Xamarin apps share code across all platforms.
Target iOS, Android, Windows and Mac with a single, shared C# codebase. Use the same language, APIs and data structures on every platform.

 

[Erel]

You can share code between platforms and you can use the same code base. It is similar to sharing code between B4A, B4i and B4J.

 

[KMatle]

Let us close this thread...