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Alfer5537yI agree, this is nice for UI designing at least, code it once and it runs anywhere, but fuck me, it feels incomplete and feels like a third party framework that just parses your code to native language.
If only it did that, but noooo, your app will weight 20mb minimum because of all the necessary assemblies and shit.
Fuck, Microsoft, this could've been the perfect framework but no -
In Microsoft's defence, they only purchased it 1 or 2 years ago. It was a separate company they picked up so it's hardly their design decision...
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I think you misunderstand what xamarin is about.
The idea is you write a UI specific for each platform you are targeting (so you can take advantage of platform specific features). The shared code bit is just for business logic / behind the scenes shit.
If you truly want a write one run everywhere framework then don't use xamarin -
@lukegv if its open source pls gimme so i can blatantly steal your shit and not deal with this project
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@BindView yep sorry I totally missed the reference to forms in your rant.. Apologies
Xamarin.forms. True multiplatform* by Microsoft.
*you just have to make sure not to use any of the platform specific features, or write 3 completely different codes
rant