We performed a comparison between IBM MobileFirst and Xamarin Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about OutSystems, Mendix, Salesforce and others in Mobile Development Platforms."IBM MobileFirst has one of the most feature-rich admin panels."
"With help of this product, we have been able to develop mobile applications without having complete knowledge of each mobile OS's native programming technology. App development, delivery, and code management have been very efficient using this product."
"I like Its capability for developing hybrid applications, with an ability to integrate device-native code as well"
"It usually saves time for application development. We write once and the code works everywhere."
"It brings about good code sharing strategies, which bring down cost and maintenance efforts."
"The ability to share a platform-agnostic common core, or business logic, enables a mobile developer to write code for all targeted mobile platforms, independent of the individual developer's specialization in iOS, Android, or Windows. This helps not only during development but also enables easier maintenance of deployed apps, since bug fixes or feature additions can be often made in the platform-agnostic layer."
"The most valuable feature of the Xamarin Platform is the deployment."
"The most important impact is the reduction in product lifecycle costs."
"On the market, compared to everyone else, they're the top solution. They're the best solution out there that I could see."
"The technical support is very good and it's close to native."
"I like Renderers in Xamarin. They allow us to use native-platform controls easily."
"I would like to see improved support for native device functions."
"There are issues with push notifications, especially for Windows mobile apps. JSONStore also crashes abruptly at times."
"From time to time, it is a bit harder to code some specific scenarios compared to the native approach."
"The major I see with Xamarin right now is that there is no visual editor"
"We have noticed that there have been stability-based performance issues with this product, which need to be improved."
"In Xamarin.Forms, we have the option to preview our UI designs, but the functionality can be limited. So, this is not fully functional. Since I have some knowledge of iOS, where when you write code or design in the storyboard, your design is immediately visible in the preview."
"The Xamarin.Forms could improve."
"There is limited support for UX widgets."
"The android application compilation time needs to be reduced."
"They need to take a step towards independence from the UI platform. It takes a lot of time to adapt the native controls."
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IBM MobileFirst is ranked 14th in Mobile Development Platforms while Xamarin Platform is ranked 6th in Mobile Development Platforms with 39 reviews. IBM MobileFirst is rated 8.4, while Xamarin Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM MobileFirst writes "It provides access management for the enterprise user as well as for the consumer". 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". IBM MobileFirst is most compared with IBM MaaS360, Ionic, SAP Mobile Platform and Microsoft Azure App Service, whereas Xamarin Platform is most compared with Appium, Ionic, OutSystems, Apple Xcode and Mendix.
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