Xamarin.Forms Alternatives

Reviews and mentions

• Legacy Xamarin Native App, stick with Xamarin Native or change to Xamarin Forms / Maui?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/xamarindevelopers | 21 Aug 2021

  You asked a bunch of questions there, I will try to answer them separately. 1) I am a XN expert and have a ton of experience in it, and from my research, it’s extremely difficult to get an experienced xamarin native developer. Xamarin Native is amazing experience to have, but There’s literally NO WAY left for someone to train themselves in xamarin native and I wrote about that here https://blog.devgenius.io/usingxamarinuniversitytolearnmobiledevelopment-808b6dec3e8b?sk=1c196f32400196f14dff7359f8ee51c0 So yes, I highly recommend running away from using xamarin native apps. Companies are having such a hard time finding experienced devs at regular rates. So anything is better really. 2) As to what language to select, Cross Platform >> Swift/Kotlin, these are also specialized skills that are just as rare to find both of in one senior skilled developer. Microsoft is actually putting in a lot of effort into building out the new Maui platform which is a piece of cake for xamarin forms developers to learn. There’s several migration tools already built as well, and the advantage of using Xamarin for you would be that you can keep your ViewModel layer exactly the same, you just have to build your view layer (also pretty easy to do with hot reload). Finally, it is important to note that more than 50% of ALL new mobile app development is moving towards React Native. The ability to use typescript (TS) instead of JavaScript removed the biggest negative against RN. Also keep in mind there’s no easy way of migrating from Xamarin Native to Xamarin forms except for starting a Xamarin forms app from scratch because of This issue https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/issues/8153

• Stacklayout cutting off some content on Android
  1 project | reddit.com/r/xamarindevelopers | 16 Aug 2021

  BTW this is the reported issue, please comment to push xamarin team look over it and maybe fix the bug

• Shell App Navigation Error on Android: "Ambiguous routes matched"
  1 project | reddit.com/r/xamarindevelopers | 14 Aug 2021

  I'm worried that I'm experiencing this unresolved issue on GitHub.

• Miliseconds of irresponsiveness when Xamarin opens a view for first time. Is this a Xamarin thing?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/xamarindevelopers | 12 Aug 2021

  If you're using shell on Android, this is a prevelant problem as your binding count grows. There has been a bug open on the Xamarin team for two years that keeps getting pushed in favor of MAUI work. https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/issues/7521

• Scared go touch Xamarin forms because of this critical github issue. Anyone experiencing this? Any work around?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/xamarindevelopers | 9 Aug 2021
• The Future of Xamarin Community Toolkit
  1 project | reddit.com/r/xamarindevelopers | 15 Jul 2021

  You don’t have to port your app to .NET MAUI, but I highly recommend it because LTS support for Xamarin.Forms ends November 2022.

• .NET 6 Preview 5
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jun 2021
• For a list of 20-60 equally sized row with the same layout, that's sandwiched between text and other controls, and where the number of rows won't change. Would you use a ListView with a DataTemplate or a CollectionView with a DataTemplate, and if one or the other, then why?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/xamarindevelopers | 13 Jun 2021

  I think i will pick CollectionView because of the interesting ItemSizingStrategy property you can set it to MeasureAllItem which will make your CollectionView measure every item then display it while the user scrolls, or the other choice MeasureFirstItem which will measure the first item and apply it's size on all items in the CollectionView and that what you want i think. This made a noticeable difference in the performance when the user scrolls. But many developers reported issues that still exist currently in the CollectionView, you can check them out on the Xamarin Forms repo Please note that images loading may slow down the scrolling, if this was a problem for you then you can use gildex Nuget package to speed up images loading.

• A tale of debugging things that shouldn't be happening.
  1 project | reddit.com/r/xamarindevelopers | 9 Jun 2021

  Huh. So I don't care what the ListView says, these Android TextEdits are getting recycled. I had to do a good bit more debugging to find the next chain, but let's look at what EntryRenderer does in OnElementChanged(), trimmed down to the sin:

• Do you prefer to develop Xamarin Applications on Windows or Mac ?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/xamarindevelopers | 30 May 2021

  A few hours after some stackoverflow research, yay, partial hot reloading works on windows : look, how beautiful this is, aah technology. Then let it scatters the stars in your eyes as your stacklayout just goes blank while hot reloading on mac. The fatal blow hits your neck as you wander on the SO issue, where someone said "hey it's working again on Windows after rebooting"

• Xamarin in May, 2021 - Do you still have issues / bugs that need fixing and that stop you doing what you want to do?
  3 projects | reddit.com/r/xamarindevelopers | 18 May 2021

  There's some bugs in Xamarin Forms like #1600, #1879 and regressions like #10031, #11011, #13597 that have bothered me for some time.

  3 projects | reddit.com/r/xamarindevelopers | 18 May 2021

  Use CollectionView and push a page to the navigation stack after selecting an item in the collection view. Once navigated to the new page, navigate back and you cannot navigate by selecting the same item again. SelectedItem has to be set to null, I guess this is intended though, but there must be a better way?

  3 projects | reddit.com/r/xamarindevelopers | 18 May 2021
• What are the disadvantages of using CSS in Xamarin Forms?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/xamarindevelopers | 11 May 2021
• The Collectionview Scroll Jank/Jitter thread!!!
  1 project | reddit.com/r/xamarindevelopers | 7 May 2021

  Overall performance is somewhat bad (see this link). This can somewhat be solved or minimized with good layout design such as using simpler layourt, getting rid of BindableLayouts, and etc