We are living in a digital era when billions of people are accessing internet through their PCs and smartphones. People also use smartphones to use the Mobile apps installed on them to do their day today work. Due to the high demand for smartphones and mobile apps, the mobile development market is growing at a massive rate. Mobile App developers are in high demand and large number of mobile applications are launched everyday.

Due to high demand of Mobile App Development and the high growth of mobile apps, the revenue of the businesses which develop these mobile apps is skyrocketing. Hence this is an opportunity for the mobile app developers and businesses to strengthen their position.

Most of the businesses now want to develop a mobile app for their business so that the customers can buy their products and services right from their smartphones. Hence now it is becoming important for the organizations to rapidly develop and deploy apps with the help of cross-platform development tools. As per a research, it is expected that more than 20 millions enterprise apps will be developed by 2018. There has been growing investment and acquisition in the enterprise mobile app development industry. Now the mobile apps are downloaded billions of time and generate billions of dollars of revenue which is making mobile apps most popular tools to get customers across the globe. Now so many people spend lots of their time on Android and iOS devices. As there are many different mobile application development platforms hence the businesses need a strategy which can deliver the mobile app in right time for all the platforms to meet the demand. Demand for Xamarin platform is also increasing as it supports hybrid mobile application development.

Most of the mobile app developers prefer hybrid mobile app development. But if you focus on the end user then you can decide which platform is best for you. The use of multiple platforms in application development increases the testing time and adversely affects the release time. Therefore, Xamarin as a cross mobile app development platform is getting more popular in mobile app development industry. Now we will discuss the reasons why enterprises are looking to expand their mobile app development effort by making the use of Xamarin.

Native Applications

Generally native design is the most preferred solution for mobile app development. Xamarin provides native look and feel to the mobile app. Xamarin provides native API, native user interface and native performance. This allows the app to look in a way the user wants and enables it to behave as per user expectations. Xamarin app offer platform specific capabilities. By using the platform specific hardware acceleration, Xamarin apps are compiled for native performance. The Xamarin approach includes Xamarin Studio (IDE) which supports coding in C#. Xamarin also enables code sharing across platforms which shortens the development time.

Xamarin Supports mobile development in C#

If you talk to a Mobile App Development Service then they can better tell you how much important efficient it is to code in a object oriented, modern, user friendly programming language. C# is an Object Oriented Programming Language which looks like a modern version of C++. C# is also simple, general purpose and type safe. C# allows simple data type to be treated as objects. Type safety feature of C# help the developers to reduce the errors in the code. C# also eliminate the use of pointer and header in order to simplify the syntax. Hence C# is the most preferred programming language for cross platform mobile application development and Xamarin support the C# for mobile app development under it.

Shared App Logic Across multiple Platforms

Xamarin supports sharing native UI and it also supports sharing logic across multiple platforms. Shared app logic feature makes it very popular to use on cross application development platforms. Xamarin allows developers to share 75% of the code across various platforms and OS. As Xamarin enables the developers to share the logic hence it saves time required for development and it also decrease the chances of having bugs in mobile app development.

Xamarin supports API Integration

Xamarin supports integration of API and UI in order to build iOS, Android and Mac apps in their respective platform specific languages. By making the use of portable class libraries and appropriate application architecture, Xamarin allows the developers to share the code between iOS, Android and Windows. Xamarin also provides support for the new features. You can click on the respective platform for the latest support packages for iOS, Windows and Android.

Xamarin Component Store

Xamarin Component Store was launched in 2013 to help developers build apps with less time and efforts and to add amazing features to it. Xamarin supports collaboration and sharing. This store has a list of stunning UI controls, beautiful themes, cloud services, charts and graphs, and many other powerful features which a developer can add to its mobile app in very short time.

Conclusion

Xamarin supports cross platform mobile app development and now noone can afford to ignore it. Xamarin provides rich features and many benefits which allow the developers to build a near perfect cross platform native app. Also Xamarin has millions of developers which make a vibrant developer community which continuously interact and support each other and also collaborate to enhance the Xamarin software regularly.