Xamarin VS Titanium

You can migrate your app to .NET 6 or .NET 7 for Android now - https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android/wiki/Migrating-Xamarin.Android-Applications-to-.NET-6

My grad learned basic Android dev in like a week, and proceeded to smash it out better and faster than the original. Jetpack Compose is fantastic and simply unavailable in Xamarin.

Xamarin.Android: Licencia MIT

I read that Broadcast Receiver is no longer guarenteed to trigger on exact times. Which doesn't really matter for my purpose, but seemed to me to be an indication that this wasn't quite what I was looking for.

You can build it yourself or download a package from https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android.

MAUI on Android uses: https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android

Google updated their .xml file in a way our code couldn't handle: https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android/issues/6965

On the Android side a Floating Action Button icon will now respect the tintColor and will change its color. The Android Label got some new properties: lineCount (returns the lines of the label) and visibleText (returns the visible text). This is very useful if you work with an ellipsize: true Label. Check the PR for some demo code. And as described in a previous new post: breakStrategy and hyphenationFrequency (demo code). The titleAttributes.color property is now exposed on Android so it will use the same value as iOS to color the title text

Titanium SDK - cross platform mobile framework

Appcelerator Titanium is an open-source platform that allows developers to create native mobile apps using JavaScript. It provides a comprehensive set of tools and capabilities for building, testing, and deploying various applications across multiple platforms, including iOS and Android.

I remember Appcelerator. In fact I'm still using it to this day. The core Titanium is now open source and the Apps are "true" native. Give them another look and you may be surprised: https://titaniumsdk.com

Java 19 support is on the roadmap and many PRs are waiting to be included. Help to test them https://github.com/tidev/titanium_mobile/pulls so we have some feedback and can merge them quicker.

A new layout for Android was added in PR that adds a collapsing toolbar with a parallax image effect. Click here for a video demo

And if you are a Android/Java or iOS developer and want to work on the SDK yourself: have a look at the official github repo. Pull request are always welcome!

support for Dynamic Island (PR - docs will come soon

of course you can use every other Android theme. And with that you will have a new helper function Ti.UI.Android.harmonizedColor(color) that will generate a "harmonizing color" of the color you are passing in (PR).