What is the Xamarin platform?

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What is the Xamarin platform?

An image depicting several mobile devicesXamarin promotes sharing

Xamarin's platform promotes code sharing as much as possible. Apps are authored in C# and share on average 75% of code across platforms. The Xamarin.Forms API allows native user interfaces to be built in C# or XAML, which can increase code sharing to 100%.

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Xamarin apps are fast

Xamarin apps are compiled to a native binary. Mono, a fully-funtional implementation of the .NET runtime, is bundled with the app to provide access to platform-native APIs. This gives Xamarin apps strong performance in demanding situations, like media and complex data visualization.

 

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*Source: Harry Cheung, Mobile App Performance Redux