xamarin-macios vs Xamarin

xamarin-macios

Bridges the worlds of .NET with the native APIs of macOS, iOS, tvOS, and watchOS. (by xamarin)

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.NET for 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-macios		Xamarin
	Project
14	Mentions	13
2,355	Stars	1,865
0.3%	Growth	0.4%
9.9	Activity	0.0
5 days ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
C#	Language	C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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xamarin-macios

Posts with mentions or reviews of xamarin-macios. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-18.

Setting up Development & Distribution of Xamarin App (without help from original developer)
1 project | /r/Xamarin | 14 Jun 2023
Duda carrera: C#/.NET vs. Node/Express
13 projects | /r/devsarg | 18 May 2023

Xamarin.ios y Xamarin.Mac: Licencia MIT.
How to Build Mobile Document Scanning App with Xamarin.Forms for Android and iOS
2 projects | dev.to | 10 Nov 2022

Try to build the project for Android and iOS respectively. If you suffered from the iOS build issue Error MT4109: Failed to compile the generated registrar code caused by Xcode 14, you can visit https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/issues/15954 to find the solution. The issue can be fixed by installing xamarin.ios-16.0.0.72.pkg. To run the app on iOS 16, turn on Settings > Privacy & Security > Developer Mode.
I’m Stuck, Need Help Fast
1 project | /r/xamarindevelopers | 28 Sep 2022

See this for more info.
Can't connect to X Code simulator
1 project | /r/VisualStudioForMac | 15 Sep 2022
Xcode 14
1 project | /r/xamarindevelopers | 14 Sep 2022

There is nothing planned. Downgrade immediately https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/issues/15954
Unpopular Opinion: MAUI does NOT replace Xamarin
2 projects | /r/dotnetMAUI | 30 Aug 2022

MAUI on iOS and MacCatalyst use: https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios
.NET MAUI GA
3 projects | /r/dotnet | 23 May 2022

You can see in old issues like this how uncertain even the core team was about it. It's not really tenable to fly that blind.
Can anyone tell Visual studio for mac 2022 release date and Maui release date?
1 project | /r/csharp | 11 Apr 2022

I think they're still doing tooling updates for Xamarin for a while. For one, there are platforms that for now aren't (yet) moving to .NET 6 at all, such as watchOS. And second, they seem to have changed their Apple platforms tooling to basically dual-target Mono (for Xamarin) and .NET 6 (for MAUI).
Kanbann: Apple Watch Trello App - looking for beta testers
1 project | /r/trello | 25 Dec 2021

Microsoft decided not to support the Apple Watch in .NET 6 (https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/issues/8955), which made me uncertain as to its future on the Apple Watch - I was also interested in learning Swift and SwiftUI.

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.

Xamarin Android App
1 project | /r/dotnet | 1 Jul 2023

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
Should I start migrating my Xamarin app to MAUI
5 projects | /r/dotnet | 5 Jun 2023

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.
Duda carrera: C#/.NET vs. Node/Express
13 projects | /r/devsarg | 18 May 2023

Xamarin.Android: Licencia MIT
Decompressing and recompressing a Xamarin .dll from an APK?
1 project | /r/csharp | 13 Jan 2023
Best Way to Call API on a Scheduled Cadence?
1 project | /r/AndroidQuestions | 23 Dec 2022

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.
Xamarin.Android development possible on Linux in 2022?
1 project | /r/dotnet | 25 Sep 2022

You can build it yourself or download a package from https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android.
Unpopular Opinion: MAUI does NOT replace Xamarin
2 projects | /r/dotnetMAUI | 30 Aug 2022

MAUI on Android uses: https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android
Is Xamarin native development still feasible, or will we **have** to transition to MAUI?
2 projects | /r/dotnet | 16 Jul 2022
Xamarin Hidden Android SDK Versions Solution
1 project | /r/Xamarin | 13 May 2022

Google updated their .xml file in a way our code couldn't handle: https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android/issues/6965
Have teams that migrated to Visual Studio 2022 with their Xamarin Forms app experienced a smooth transition?
2 projects | /r/xamarindevelopers | 18 Apr 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing xamarin-macios and Xamarin you can also consider the following projects:

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Xamarin.Forms - Xamarin.Forms Official Home

translatefgo - FGO Translation Project

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Mapsui - Mapsui is a .NET Map component for: MAUI, WPF, Avalonia, Uno, Blazor, WinUI, Xamarin and Eto

uikit-sys - Rust Bindings for the iOS UIKit Objective-C framework

shadowsocks-windows - A C# port of shadowsocks

MVVMCross - The .NET MVVM framework for cross-platform solutions, including Android, iOS, MacCatalyst, macOS, tvOS, WPF, WinUI

GeoBlazor - Core Components for the Dymaptic GeoBlazor Library