The initial setup for App Center was easy. I rate it a seven out of ten. AppCenter is primitive. Some solutions, like Azure with the DevOps pipeline, have much more functionality. However, App Center does the job for us. Once you release it to production, you can configure App Center to build your solution and release it to stores like the App Store and Google Play.

Setting up the developer environment could take about half a day because you must set up the IDE, Microsoft Visual Studio. For Android, you have to get all the SDKs. Xamarin also cannot work without Xcode, the development IDE for iOS, so you must also set that up. Xamarin works on .NET Framework, which you download as part of the IDE installation.

The setup is easy; not difficult at all.

The setup is moderately complex. In general, I don't think development for a nice mobile is very simple, but I wouldn't say that it's super complex. .Net itself is a pretty productive programming language, so it helps you with a lot of things, but there's definitely a learning curve to get up to speed on it.

It takes a day to get the solution configured on your workstation, if you know what you're doing. The reason I say that is because you have to install the Android SDK, the iOS SDK, and then you have to install Xamarin on top of all that. All of them have to be installed and configured correctly for everything to work, so there's a lot of dependencies. I think it probably takes at least a day to get a workstation set up and configured, and then you're off and running. 

In regards to DevOps and all that, in most places I've worked, you have developers with their individual machines configured. Then when you merge your code into a git repository, the builds are automatically done and either sift to the testing team or are uploaded to the app stores, depending on where you are in the project. That might take a week or so to get going, but just as an individual developer, it takes about a day.

It's not difficult to set up Xamarin. It'll come with the visual studio directly and you can click it. Even for the beginner to install Xamarin, it's pretty straightforward.

The deployment for both iOS and Android is good. Sometimes with Android, it is taking time. iOS is faster. For example, iOS is a couple of seconds, maybe 10 or 15 seconds. Android has a lot of dependencies. Therefore, compared to iOS, Android is slow; however, generally, it'll deploy within 15 to 20 seconds or maybe 25 seconds sometimes.

Xamarin Platform deployment is very good, it is simple. You must have a virtual machine on your system for the Xamarin Platform to work. The full deployment takes a few days at the most.

It's reducing the cost and time to deploy and deliver your applications to different customers. You can deploy it on Android and iOS, which includes mobile devices and desktops.

The initial setup is straightforward. 

Setup issues are not with the solution but are caused by native items such as Android and iOS provisioning profiles and upload rights. 

The initial setup process was straightforward. We downloaded the Xamarin installer and proceeded with the installation.

The setup is very easy, and we can do the setup on Visual Studio. While installing Visual Studio, the modules are similar to the ones on cross-platform. A developer can select a particular model, and it will install everything. After that, we only have to set up the Visual Studio tools.

The initial setup of the Xamarin Platform is straightforward. If you want a simple debug deployment it is simple, you only need to press play.

The initial setup of this solution was very straightforward, and the deployment only took 10 minutes to carry out.

The initial setup was easy. We used the MDM for the deployment as it can be deployed to remote devices. The deployment took two days but the problem was after that for fixing and backing. The maintenance becomes difficult because there is a problem with the log. If there would be a better log that would be transmitted to a central console would be better because we have to get the log from the remote device and analyse what happened

The initial setup of Xamarin Platform is easy. Once you have created and initialized your project in Visual Studio, you can create the Xamarin.Forms platform project.

The instructions are step-by-step and easy to follow.

Deployment is completed in minutes. You can find the rest of your devices and run and click on your virtual devices within minutes.

The initial setup is very well documented and there are plenty of resources available to hit the ground running if you are an experienced developer already. For beginners, the entire setup can be overwhelming because it involves setting up development environments for iOS, Android, and Windows at the same time if you want to target all three.

The deployment is fairly straightforward. Since it's backed by Microsoft, the documentation is expensive. There are MVPs working around the clock to help get you up to speed, so implementation is a breeze. It's not really a problem. In that respect, it's much better than React Native. I've deployed this on my phone. 

The initial setup is straightforward. It wasn't earlier, but now it's pretty easy. You can deploy this solution with just a few clicks. Like any other app, if it's an automated deployment, it will probably take an hour or two. 

The developer activity was complex, but it was understandable. From my perspective, I wanted to minimize the number of software vendors we were working with, and consolidate where features were overlapping. The reason I was trying to do that was to try and save the government some money. I was thinking I was still paying X dollars for one contract for three years, and Y dollars for another contract, and the features were all the same — what's the use of paying for both?

Our deployment process is simple. It happens in-house, and we don't use a third party. We create an application on Google Play Store, the same as deploying regular Android applications with one additional step of archiving it. So, from Visual Studio, you archive it, sign the application, and then upload the .AAB file on the Google Play store or iOS. You create an archive from here and can upload it using the file uploader Mac provides.

I do all the deployments myself and need 30 minutes to create a full application and deploy it for Android. For iOS, it takes about five minutes.

The initial setup is relatively easy. Obviously, we need to follow the guidelines for the App Store and Play Store when publishing, and we might need to set up some local testing environments. 

However, the core Xamarin deployment process isn't overly complex. These days, we have great CI/CD tools to automate much of that.

The initial setup of the Xamarin Platform is easy and takes one day.

The initial setup is very simple.

The initial setup is very straightforward. Implementation takes about an hour. 

The initial setup was straightforward.

It is easy to install.

While using Visual Studio, it is easy to use the Xamarin Platform.

The time it takes to install Xamarin is dependent on the internet speed. 

We can easily install Xamarin in 30 to 40 minutes, depending on internet speed.

It is extremely quick If you have high-speed internet as well as some RAM and systems processor. It will be very fast if it has an i7 processor.

In the very beginning, it was a bit complex because I was using Visual Studio 2015 which doesn’t come with a Xamarin module like Visual Studio 2017; you need to add it manually.

Using early versions of Xamarin, especially VS on Windows for developing iOS, were a mess. But now, with the latest installer, it is really straightforward.

Setup was actually pretty complex, as we had to get experience. We had some oddly written solutions provided from previous vendors of our customers. These were impossible to maintain.

Everything was simple. Besides, on GitHub there are always good examples. Although, you need to understand the native SDK a bit.

The initial setup was easy.

Initial setup is straightforward. Microsoft has combined Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio so you just need to download the installer and follows the instructions. That’s it.