We performed a comparison between OutSystems 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."The product is mostly stable."
"Once built, web/mobile components can be reused in all new developments. In addition, the OutSystems Forge is very useful. We can exchange components and even already-built applications, reducing costs to build specific solutions."
"There is literally a ton of stuff it can do. It's very flexible."
"It is very stable."
"It provides for faster development and better software releases."
"Scalability proved to be an exceptionally beneficial feature."
"The most important features of this tool are its visual modeling capabilities and drag and drop functionality. You can see what you are coding which makes it easy to understand and maintain. They have also created a big revolution in digital transformation by introducing native mobile app development under the same IDE."
"The drag-and-drop feature is very valuable."
"I think the best part about Xamarin is that you can create apps for both platforms using one source code. That's the most powerful feature. When you develop something for Android, it also builds for iVerse as well. The cross-platform aspect of Xamarin is unique. The ability to develop both apps with a single code base is something very unique."
"It usually saves time for application development. We write once and the code works everywhere."
"Xamarin.Forms exposes a complete cross-platform UI toolkit for .NET developers. The advantage is that a single team can target multiple platforms (Android, iOS, and Windows) on a shared C# codebase."
"You can create one solution in C Sharp."
"A single line of code works with android and iOS."
"The technical support is very good and it's close to native."
"The most important impact is the reduction in product lifecycle costs."
"It brings about good code sharing strategies, which bring down cost and maintenance efforts."
"The latest version of the app generation tools could be more user-friendly."
"OutSystems does not provide any native reporting resources. All reports must be created with other tools or as a webpage."
"The tool needs to improve the efficiency of its widgets."
"While I can't speak to the market impact, as a developer, I've seen significant reductions in development time across different versions of our applications. One area for improvement would be the UI controls in Service Studio. Sometimes, controls don't appear in the IDE, requiring us to check them in the web browser instead. Overall, our experience with OutSystems has been positive, though improvements in UI development would be welcomed."
"It is hard to find the logic in OutSystems. From an improvement perspective, I want to be able to properly use logic in OutSystems."
"In OutSystems, cloud management is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"It's difficult to do the component version control. I would like them to add more studying materials."
"The integration Studio could be improved. It needs a tool in which we could develop C# code and then integrate into OutSystems. The application could have a better UI."
"They need to take a step towards independence from the UI platform. It takes a lot of time to adapt the native controls."
"They need to improve performance, especially for the Android platform. Also, some controls are missing in the Xamarin framework when compared to native controls; for example, the checkbox control."
"It would be better if they offered more certifications. They offer a number of certifications for Azure but none for Xamarin. This is something that could be provided for developers to show off their competency. Technical support could be better."
"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."
"The Xamarin.Forms could improve."
"Regarding improvements, there are still some limitations with Xamarin, particularly regarding access to core functionality in Android and iOS."
"We'd like to have some chat support functionality."
"It needs offline sync capabilities to store data on devices persistently."
OutSystems is ranked 1st in Mobile Development Platforms with 46 reviews while Xamarin Platform is ranked 4th in Mobile Development Platforms with 39 reviews. OutSystems is rated 8.4, while Xamarin Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of OutSystems writes "Useful natural speech to algorithm, reliable, and beneficial automatic task". 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". OutSystems is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Appian, Mendix, ServiceNow and GitHub CoPilot, whereas Xamarin Platform is most compared with Ionic, Appium, Apple Xcode, Mendix and Tricentis Tosca. See our OutSystems vs. Xamarin Platform report.
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