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Unsurprisingly, most Xamarin developers seem to hate using it.Įverything is Xamarin is unnecessarily difficult to use - even the text editor is “an abomination”, with developers resorting to using third party tools, such as Rider. Anything complicated probably means you’ll be working in Xamarin.Native… or rather, you won’t. Xamarin.Forms is basically suitable for simple apps only. Most Xamarin cross platform development is done using Xamarin Forms.) (Talking of cross-platform, Microsoft themselves even suggest using React Native - a competitor for cross platform development, rather than Xamarin Native. Incidentally, Xamarin.Native is actually cross platform but you have to write your UI code twice - once for each platform. What is Xamarin Forms? Xamarin has two ways of letting developers write cross platform apps (there’s a warning bell for a start.) Forms allows developers to produce a cross platform app using a number of shared GUI components - which you can’t do, using Xamarin.Native. The move to replace Xamarin Forms with MAUI seems to be a move on Microsoft’s part to compete with newer, friendlier and easier to use modern development frameworks. Theoretically, it seemed to have so much going for it, but in the real world, Xamarin has proved to be bug ridden, badly implemented and bloated. Xamarin has been around since 2011, with somewhat of a troubled and confused development history. The move is part of a general evolutionary step across the entire Xamarin environment. I hate it so much I’m about to drop the highest paying job I’ll ever have because I’m so frustrated with everything that Xamarin is (or isn’t). so soo much, but its just so bad Xamarin is the absolutely worst. Net based product called MAUI - Multiform App User Interface. In May 2020, Microsoft announced that Xamarin.Forms, a major component of its mobile app development framework, would be deprecated in November 2021 in favour of a new. Well, it's not quite dead but possibly moribund. (Update - if you want to look into our thoughts on how to modernise your Xamarin app, look here or click here to enquire about a Xamarin to Flutter conversion)‍ Is Xamarin indeed dead?