We performed a comparison between Mendix and Xamarin Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Mobile Development Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."You can scale the solution."
"Suite allows you to easily and smoothly integrate with pretty much anything. It is also cloud-enabled. It provides a full Cloud Foundry-driven cloud environment with one-click deployment."
"The most valuable features of the product are its ease of use and speed. My friend and I find it helpful as a team of just two developers."
"We also use Mendix Enterprise Integration for complex business logic. It's a low-code platform, so we run Mendix in the Mendix Cloud."
"It's amazing that you can build web apps and mobile (hybrid) apps with one code base in a few clicks. It's a full continuous integration environment."
"The most valuable features of Mendix are the drag and drop functions, the data entities, domain models, and all the related features."
"There is a free version of the solution you can use."
"I find the fast development speed and low cost to be very valuable features of Mendix. It's a smart solution for busy developers when we need to apply new changes or fixes quickly. Mendix helps to save time and meet project deadlines faster."
"Xamarin makes it easy to create white label applications for all platforms."
"The cross platform ability is a great asset."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"The most valuable feature of the Xamarin Platform is the deployment."
"Plugins like MvvmCross make a developer’s life easy."
"The combination of forms for cross-platform UI and C-Sharp for the programming language are my two favorite features."
"Cross-platform development saves time and provides consistencies."
"The technical support is very good and it's close to native."
"Needs multiple database connections so an app can directly read/write data to/from multiple databases. This would enable easy splitting of big applications that have complex entity relationships."
"Mendix is great for internal applications but not so great for a public-facing interface. It lacks a proper directory structure for public use. The URL will not change from page to page unless a deep link is created for each page. That makes it difficult to bookmark pages in the browser to view later on."
"In the beginning, it is difficult to learn and work with."
"It could use a more comprehensive widget creation studio in the IDE."
"I struggle with solutions like Mendix in terms of creating enterprise solutions."
"An improvement I would like to see is the ability to version manage independent modules. Their version management for software repositories must be better. It's good and you can do it, but it needs work."
"There's no direct tech support."
"I would like to see more documentation as well as how-to documents."
"The problem that I faced was that the communication, the roles, and the responsibilities, weren't defined between Microsoft and Xamarin."
"The performance needs improvement, especially the dev tools, and also the ultimate output of the mobile applications."
"Xamarin Platform can improve if there was a virtual test environment so we did not have to have a Mac system for the iOS testing. At this time You must have a Mac to deploy or generate IBA profiles."
"Needs to improve the customization of its screens."
"The monitoring of the remote devices is not good as it should be extended along. It would be useful if the log is more integrated with the central console. I am not sure it can be accessed but it would be better."
"We'd like to have some chat support functionality."
"The major I see with Xamarin right now is that there is no visual editor"
"The debugging functionality could be improved in Xamarin Platform because sometimes it takes very long to move through the stages of setting up the application build to the final deployment on a mobile app that resides in a physical device."
Mendix is ranked 2nd in Mobile Development Platforms with 48 reviews while Xamarin Platform is ranked 4th in Mobile Development Platforms with 39 reviews. Mendix is rated 8.4, while Xamarin Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Mendix writes "Low-code, helpful support, and great native mobile capability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Xamarin Platform writes "It's about to be retired and replaced with an inferior product, but offers excellent cross-platform development capabilities". Mendix is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Oracle Application Express (APEX), Appian and ServiceNow, whereas Xamarin Platform is most compared with Ionic, Appium, OutSystems, Apple Xcode and Tricentis Tosca. See our Mendix vs. Xamarin Platform report.
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