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."
"Technical support is helpful."
"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."
"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."
"It allows us to reuse our knowledge of C# and .NET 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."
"Xamarin.Forms exposes a complete cross-platform UI toolkit for .NET developers. The advantage is that a single team can target multiple platforms (Android, iOS, and Windows) on a shared C# codebase."
"Recently, Xamarin has added a lot of features such as Effects, Behaviors, Triggers, etc. This has made the UI user-friendly, lively, and attractive."
"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."
"The technical support is very good and it's close to native."
"The licensing model is a bit dated."
"SAP has announced that they'll be ending the support on the SAP platform."
"One drawback is that SAP Mobile Platform apps are only available through the browser, making offline capability more challenging to implement."
"If it was low code or no code it would be ideal."
"The cost of the SAP Mobile Platform is high, and there is room for improvement in its pricing."
"The toolkit to develop front end applications, especially native applications, is not that good."
"I would like to see hot reload, similar to what Flutter has out-of-the-box. There is "Live Reload" but it’s still in preview and was only recently announced."
"The solution always has room for improvement with price, integration, stability, and documentation."
"There are compatibility issues between versions of various Xamarin components."
"Regarding improvements, there are still some limitations with Xamarin, particularly regarding access to core functionality in Android and iOS."
"Xamarin Platform is missing the code renderer."
"They need to take a step towards independence from the UI platform. It takes a lot of time to adapt the native controls."
"The android application compilation time needs to be reduced."
"We need to think about partnering with IBM because there is a need for a big data partner; someone who has machine learning and can help us connect the app to big data."
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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