We performed a comparison between GeneXus 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 most valuable feature is that GeneXus works with several languages. It's possible to develop chatbots and other functionalities."
"This solution works extremely quickly in terms of enabling an application in a production environment."
"With GeneXus, we can create logical representations of transactions in the form of objects."
"GeneXus evolves with technology."
"In Knowledge Base, being able to model the workflow before developing the screens is great. We first work with the tables or the transactions using GeneXus and then we work on the screens."
"With the solution, I can work a normal day. I can plan my work and any other activities for days ahead."
"It is fast in creating systems and connects to the database quickly."
"The front-end features are the most valuable."
"A single line of code works with android and iOS."
"My favorite feature of Xamarin platform is the Xamarin.Essentials package. I also like the changes seen in Xamarin's upgrade from Xamarin.Forms to .NET MAUI, because in the older Xamarin Platform, Xamarin.Forms gave you multiple libraries of a particular level for a single platform, whereas .NET MAUI comprises a single, organized library that contains everything needed for both Android and iOS."
"The solution's most valuable asset is its shared code base in C# that is better for large apps."
"The Xamarin platform can reduce overhead significantly through code-share and reuse. The typical team size for a Xamarin project is significantly reduced compared to purely native projects."
"Xamarin.Forms are very useful. Essentially, it's a framework that allows me to create the UI mostly in XAML. This XAML code is then translated into the native UI elements for each respective platform."
"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."
"The solution is easy to understand and has banking integrated. The shorter development time, the bugging and as well as availability of a lot of documentation on the web. Also the native integration is easy."
"Cross-platform development saves time and provides consistencies."
"The tool needs to be tuned before being used. You need some experience to get the best out of the tool."
"The front-end with GeneXus is not as good as the back-end."
"We would like to see more extensions and more user controls added to the front-end of this solution, in order to help developers manage the website."
"GeneXus is a wonderful tool for the backend. It's the best in the world, but for the frontend, GeneXus needs to improve. There should be easier steps for managing various aspects, such as alerts and messages to show to the end-users."
"Documentation is always an issue. In order to develop with GeneXus, there is very little documentation. The documentation is not clear enough in order to develop a great tool."
"It's expensive for a company."
"It would be better if GeneXus had a wiki. The developer needs some experience to work with the tools. It would be better if they could improve the community. If we have some problem, I open a ticket that takes us to a board, and I have to describe my issue in detail. If the tools have a general community for us to explore with some videos or some articles, I think that that may help the developer."
"GeneXus's user interface has room for improvement."
"Needs to improve the customization of its screens."
"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 major I see with Xamarin right now is that there is no visual editor"
"All Xamarin library issues need to be taken care of as a top priority."
"We'd like to have some chat support functionality."
"The Xamarin.Forms could improve."
"The problem that I faced was that the communication, the roles, and the responsibilities, weren't defined between Microsoft and Xamarin."
"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."
GeneXus is ranked 8th in Mobile Development Platforms with 13 reviews while Xamarin Platform is ranked 4th in Mobile Development Platforms with 39 reviews. GeneXus is rated 8.6, while Xamarin Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of GeneXus writes "Fast, stable, and allows us to model a workflow before developing the screens". 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". GeneXus is most compared with Oracle Application Express (APEX), Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Mendix and Magic xpa Application Platform, whereas Xamarin Platform is most compared with Ionic, Appium, Apple Xcode, OutSystems and Mendix. See our GeneXus vs. Xamarin Platform report.
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