Xamarin.Forms VS Xamarin

Compare Xamarin.Forms vs Xamarin and see what are their differences.

Xamarin

Xamarin.Android provides open-source bindings of the Android SDK for use with .NET managed languages such as C# (by xamarin)
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Xamarin.Forms Xamarin
27 13
5,632 1,862
-0.1% 0.1%
6.5 0.0
about 1 month ago about 3 hours ago
C# C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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Xamarin.Forms

Posts with mentions or reviews of Xamarin.Forms. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-18.

Xamarin

Posts with mentions or reviews of Xamarin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-05.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin you can also consider the following projects:

Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET Foundation community project.

MahApps.Metro - A framework that allows developers to cobble together a better UI for their own WPF applications with minimal effort.

Gtk# - Gtk# is a Mono/.NET binding to the cross platform Gtk+ GUI toolkit and the foundation of most GUI apps built with Mono

Eto.Forms - Cross platform GUI framework for desktop and mobile applications in .NET

metroframework-modern-ui - My humble attempt to bring the new Modern UI alias Metro UI of Windows 8 to .NET Windows Forms applications.

Fluent.Ribbon - WPF Ribbon control like in Office

WPF - WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.

VpnHood - Undetectable Fast Portable VPN

winforms - Windows Forms is a .NET UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.

Modern UI for WPF - MUI - Modern UI for WPF

UWP Community Toolkit - The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers, extensions, and custom controls. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building .NET apps with UWP and the Windows App SDK / WinUI 3 for Windows 10 and Windows 11. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.

AvalonEdit - The WPF-based text editor component used in SharpDevelop