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What are your thoughts on Xamerin ? (Spelling is probably off ). In any aspect: security, workflow, Flexibility, ect.

Xamarin?

I'm a .NET dev, and I prefer Ionic over Xamarin. Reasons - Cost (Build full production app for free), Easy to build and easy to find resources (since it's just HTML,CSS,JS), Faster time to market. Built on Cordova, so tonnes of plugins available. The only thing about Ionic is, the app wouldn't be native per se. But with all the right performance enhancements, the app could look really sweet, that it would be pretty hard to tell the difference! This is a famous Hacker News thread about Xamarin (and Ionic) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item/... involving CEO of Xamarin, CEO of Pacifica (a famous app build on Ionic) etc.

Xamarin is pretty nice I've used it some times. At the moment we're evaluating react native as we're a webdev company.