We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure App Service 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 Logic Apps and Azure functions are very robust."
"It's very easy to use. That's one of the advantages for the business, that you don't need to struggle to configure your website and your app service. Microsoft made sure to make it stable and very easy to configure."
"Some of the features I found valuable are auto-scaling, SSL integration, cost-effectiveness, and the certificates provided by Microsoft Azure App Service."
"The best feature is scalability, which allows you to target potential clients worldwide by connecting the application to a local server. This makes the application readily accessible, and the response time will be much better."
"The cost is reasonable."
"The program is stable and we've had no technical issues so far."
"The stability of Microsoft Azure App Service is good."
"App Service's best features are that it can be scaled easily and it includes Kudu."
"The most valuable features are: One language for all platforms: C#; XAML for UI in Xamarin.Forms; provides 100 percent coverage of APIs on each platform."
"For me, developing apps for iOS and Android is a dream came true, without migrating to Objective-C or Java. Xamarin enables me to do so."
"This solution is a cross-form technology, meaning that we don't have to create separate code to deploy apps across different platforms."
"The most valuable feature of the Xamarin Platform is that both the UI are the same in Android and iOS, in one project and Android and iOS, are applications for developing PCL projects. Additionally, the dashboard is good."
"It significantly reduces development and test costs, and ensures that there is synergy between the platforms on product features and user experience."
"Xamarin Platform enables you to use a single code language. This is beneficial for Android, iOS, and Windows platforms, so they can be developed over application or built over application."
"It is a true native solution, and we can use the cross-platform framework."
"The solution's most valuable asset is its shared code base in C# that is better for large apps."
"Microsoft Azure App Service could improve by having better integration and connectivity with other platforms. The solution has good integration with other large companies' solutions but there are smaller service platforms companies where there could be integrated better."
"Can be improved by increasing the number of data centres worldwide."
"The pricing is average. It could be lower."
"Initially, there were some rare instances when the server went down because it was deployed on Linux."
"App Service sometimes becomes very slow to respond, and it can be difficult to find the issue causing this."
"The configuration is slow without understanding the systematic process."
"The outbound connectivity is not great."
"The solution needs better integration capabilities on the network side."
"Xamarin Platform lacks in app size."
"They need to take a step towards independence from the UI platform. It takes a lot of time to adapt the native controls."
"Needs to improve the customization of its screens."
"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."
"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."
"Xamarin Platform can improve by making the enterprise documentation better. There's a lot of basic documentation of how to do many of the functions of the solution, but there's not much enterprise-level documentation."
"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 application platform could be improved."
Microsoft Azure App Service is ranked 6th in Mobile Development Platforms with 38 reviews while Xamarin Platform is ranked 4th in Mobile Development Platforms with 39 reviews. Microsoft Azure App Service is rated 8.4, while Xamarin Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure App Service writes "A solution with great server management and helps improve performance". 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". Microsoft Azure App Service is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Oracle Application Express (APEX), ServiceNow, Pega BPM and Appian, whereas Xamarin Platform is most compared with Ionic, Appium, OutSystems, Apple Xcode and Mendix. See our Microsoft Azure App Service vs. Xamarin Platform report.
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