We performed a comparison between SAP Mobile Platform 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."Both platforms, the SAP Mobile Platform, and SAP, are highly valuable for our company because they facilitate integration, which can be expensive. It's very convenient to connect and create billing accounts through the SAP Mobile Platform."
"It's not that difficult to set up."
"One valuable feature of SAP Mobile Platform is its enterprise-grade standard and maintained APIs, available out of the box for easy integration with various systems."
"Two of the very fascinating features that make SAP Mobile Platform stand out from other platforms are its offline capability and integration capability."
"The initial setup is not overly complex."
"Technical support is helpful."
"Xamarin.Forms reduced the effort and time to build and market our solution, market our features, and get our solution into production."
"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 brings about good code sharing strategies, which bring down cost and maintenance efforts."
"Xamarin Platform's best features are its single codebase, the support from Microsoft, and the free libraries."
"You can create one solution in C Sharp."
"Plugins like MvvmCross make a developer’s life easy."
"We were able to optimize the service organization for one of our clients."
"The combination of forms for cross-platform UI and C-Sharp for the programming language are my two favorite features."
"SAP has announced that they'll be ending the support on the SAP platform."
"The toolkit to develop front end applications, especially native applications, is not that good."
"The cost of the SAP Mobile Platform is high, and there is room for improvement in its pricing."
"If it was low code or no code it would be ideal."
"The licensing model is a bit dated."
"One drawback is that SAP Mobile Platform apps are only available through the browser, making offline capability more challenging to implement."
"There is limited support for UX widgets."
"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."
"The architecture in the Xamarin Platform has to improve, there are some features missing."
"Regarding improvements, there are still some limitations with Xamarin, particularly regarding access to core functionality in Android and iOS."
"I feel that the Android AppCompat library creates a lot of issues. A lot of development time is often wasted solving these issues."
"The problem that I faced was that the communication, the roles, and the responsibilities, weren't defined between Microsoft and Xamarin."
"The solution struggles a little bit with binding libraries."
"We'd like to have some chat support functionality."
SAP Mobile Platform is ranked 12th in Mobile Development Platforms with 7 reviews while Xamarin Platform is ranked 4th in Mobile Development Platforms with 39 reviews. SAP Mobile Platform is rated 8.0, while Xamarin Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SAP Mobile Platform writes "Flexible, well-designed, and offers good scalability". 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". SAP Mobile Platform is most compared with OutSystems, Android SDK, Ionic and IBM MobileFirst, whereas Xamarin Platform is most compared with Ionic, Appium, OutSystems, Apple Xcode and Mendix. See our SAP Mobile Platform vs. Xamarin Platform report.
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