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by mb_72 3941 days ago
I've mostly spent time on the Mac side of things so far, and have helped out a colleague with the mobile stuff. Recently they've added a lot of documentation for the Mac side that covers basically anything you want to know - or at least it covered all the stuff I wanted to know when I first started the Mac app 12 months ago.

For mobile, Xamarin Forms can be a little difficult to wotk with, but it's getting better all the time. I don't really want to bother with learning native development at the moment, and because we have a pile of calculations and logic in our shared PCL Xamarin is working out for us.

There is some criticism that the pricing model makes it expensive for people developing at the low end of the mobile market ($1 or $2 apps), however I think that's more a failure of that kind of market in general rather than a problem with Xamarin pricing itself.