Native vs Cross-Platform App Development: Pros and Cons of PhoneGap, Titanium, and Xamarin

In just four years, Xamarin went from a startup to a household name in development. Read about its rise to power and how it will continue changing mobile development

The Xamarin Live Player helps you get started with Xamarin.Forms development by learning to build mobile apps that you can test on your Android or iOS device

I want to show you how easy it is to get a simple website up and running using Ooui  that is powered by Xamarin.Forms

Some months ago a feature landed in Xamarin.Forms that seemed to truly polarize the Xamarin.Forms community: support for styling applications using CSS. Some argued that it was an unnecessary introduction to "Web" technology to the native development experience, and others that it simply isn't the right solution to the problem.  While I sympathize with the latter opinion and think there's plenty of room for some good debate on the right path forward, I count myself as part of a third camp: I think that CSS is a powerful (and frequently maligned) solution to the problem of styling native mobile applications.

Ammy is a modern UI language that either replaces or compliments XAML in your projects. 

In my earlier post Getting Started: Xamarin Forms with .NET Standard I covered how to create a new Xamarin Forms project which uses a .NET Standard 1.4 library to share the views between iOS, Android and UWP.