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."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."
"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."
"The initial setup is not overly complex."
"Two of the very fascinating features that make SAP Mobile Platform stand out from other platforms are its offline capability and integration capability."
"Technical support is helpful."
"Being able to use the .NET framework and platform have me creating applications better than anyone who develops on Windows."
"It is a true native solution, and we can use the cross-platform framework."
"Cross-platform development saves time and provides consistencies."
"Plugins like MvvmCross make a developer’s life easy."
"Xamarin Platform's best features are its single codebase, the support from Microsoft, and the free libraries."
"The most valuable features are: One language for all platforms: C#; XAML for UI in Xamarin.Forms; provides 100 percent coverage of APIs on each platform."
"I like Renderers in Xamarin. They allow us to use native-platform controls easily."
"It has significantly reduced the skill barrier for development and testers."
"The toolkit to develop front end applications, especially native applications, is not that good."
"The licensing model is a bit dated."
"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."
"One drawback is that SAP Mobile Platform apps are only available through the browser, making offline capability more challenging to implement."
"SAP has announced that they'll be ending the support on the SAP platform."
"Needs to improve the customization of its screens."
"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 solution does not include Hot Reload which is painful because it causes us to wait quite some time for huge builds."
"The android application compilation time needs to be reduced."
"The solution always has room for improvement with price, integration, stability, and documentation."
"I feel that the Android AppCompat library creates a lot of issues. A lot of development time is often wasted solving these issues."
"All Xamarin library issues need to be taken care of as a top priority."
SAP Mobile Platform is ranked 12th in Mobile Development Platforms with 7 reviews while Xamarin Platform is ranked 6th 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 Android SDK, OutSystems, Ionic and IBM MobileFirst, whereas Xamarin Platform is most compared with Appium, Ionic, OutSystems, Apple Xcode and Tricentis Tosca. See our SAP Mobile Platform vs. Xamarin Platform report.
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