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."OutSystems is a low-code solution. Most features are like drag-and-drop, so it's pretty easy to work. Thus it helps the organization by saving time for developers."
"The scalability of OutSystems is very good, it scales automatically very useful for us."
"It is a stable solution, and the initial setup is straightforward."
"The drag-and-drop feature is very valuable."
"We used almost all of the features, themes, styling guide, and approach components. They are useful in our applications."
"The most valuable features of OutSystems are the user-friendly platform. The drag-and-drop feature is great. I have used other rapid application development tools before, but they were not as advanced as OutSystems. With the previous tools, I had to manually build certain features, but OutSystems does it automatically."
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of OutSystems is easy."
"The solution helps to build mobile and web applications on SOAP and REST. You can integrate it with backend systems by submitting a code."
"It is a true native solution, and we can use the cross-platform framework."
"It brings about good code sharing strategies, which bring down cost and maintenance efforts."
"It allows us to reuse our knowledge of C# and .NET Framework."
"This solution is a cross-form technology, meaning that we don't have to create separate code to deploy apps across different platforms."
"Recently, Xamarin has added a lot of features such as Effects, Behaviors, Triggers, etc. This has made the UI user-friendly, lively, and attractive."
"The solution's most valuable asset is its shared code base in C# that is better for large apps."
"I like Renderers in Xamarin. They allow us to use native-platform controls easily."
"The combination of forms for cross-platform UI and C-Sharp for the programming language are my two favorite features."
"Mobile apps should have been fully native."
"The documentation needs to be more robust."
"The tutorials for the solution should be updated."
"The technical features are good, but the actual commercialization is out of reach."
"The latest version of the app generation tools could be more user-friendly."
"When shared extensions are updated, all the applications are redeployed."
"I have difficulty in using several new features. Some of the product's features are tricky to use as well."
"The initial setup is a little difficult."
"There is room for increasing the scale a little bit further with the designer in the Visual Studio, more specifically, Xamarin.Android Designer in Visual Studio."
"The solution does not include Hot Reload which is painful because it causes us to wait quite some time for huge builds."
"For beginners, the entire setup can be overwhelming because it involves setting up development environments for iOS, Android, and Windows at the same time if you want to target all three."
"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."
"The problem that I faced was that the communication, the roles, and the responsibilities, weren't defined between Microsoft and Xamarin."
"The architecture in the Xamarin Platform has to improve, there are some features missing."
"They need to take a step towards independence from the UI platform. It takes a lot of time to adapt the native controls."
"Xamarin Platform's performance base could be improved."
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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