We performed a comparison between Salesforce 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."I found the ease of use most valuable in the Salesforce Platform. I also found the platform pretty light."
"Scalability to configure and integrate."
"The presentation is clear and easy to comprehend."
"It's an easy platform for salespeople to quickly and efficiently be able to track an opportunity."
"The entire solution is very customizable and you are able to add many functionalities."
"A fully integrated solution that provides a seamless experience."
"Marketing and Sales Lead, Forecasting, Campaign management."
"It is a great platform. It's definitely an improvement from the GCP application that we were using previously."
"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 brings about good code sharing strategies, which bring down cost and maintenance efforts."
"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."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"Xamarin makes it easy to create white label applications for all platforms."
"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."
"It is a true native solution, and we can use the cross-platform framework."
"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."
"There's a learning curve. It was a bit hard to understand the logical way of working with it, just at the beginning."
"The marketing automation needs improvement."
"Integration needs improvement."
"Salesforce Platform could improve the UI and the responsiveness of their servers. The UI needs to be made user-friendly for all users."
"I think the interface should be enhanced and more user-friendly."
"Reporting could be better. Reporting is Excel-based, and it has sucked since the inception of the company. That's why I was excited about the fact of them bringing MuleSoft into the fold and Tableau."
"The biggest challenge we had was the cost and the licensing."
"The solution's UI is horrible."
"There is limited support for UX widgets."
"From time to time, it is a bit harder to code some specific scenarios compared to the native approach."
"I feel that the Android AppCompat library creates a lot of issues. A lot of development time is often wasted solving these issues."
"The solution does not include Hot Reload which is painful because it causes us to wait quite some time for huge builds."
"The worst build issue concerns are the caching process MSBuild uses to reduce the build time."
"They need to take a step towards independence from the UI platform. It takes a lot of time to adapt the native controls."
"The file size is a bit big, so you have to make certain layers."
"The problem that I faced was that the communication, the roles, and the responsibilities, weren't defined between Microsoft and Xamarin."
Salesforce Platform is ranked 3rd in Mobile Development Platforms with 80 reviews while Xamarin Platform is ranked 4th in Mobile Development Platforms with 39 reviews. Salesforce Platform is rated 8.2, while Xamarin Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Salesforce Platform writes "Reliable with good reporting and custom dashboards". 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". Salesforce Platform is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Oracle Application Express (APEX), Microsoft Azure, Appian and ServiceNow, whereas Xamarin Platform is most compared with Appium, Ionic, Apple Xcode, OutSystems and Mendix. See our Salesforce Platform vs. Xamarin Platform report.
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