[2bitencryption]

You're going to call me crazy. But using Xamarin to develop Android apps in C# via Visual Studio is seriously a better experience than using the Android Studio. At least, that's been my experience with simple personal projects -- perhaps if you are Facebook or Instagram that's not the case.

The API is almost the same, sure. But things like class attributes, null-coalescing, lack of Gradle, automatically generated getters and setters which can be overloaded... I had more fun writing a personal app for fun in Xamarin than I ever did in Android Studio, which only ever frustrated me, even though I love the IDE it is based upon.

[jmkni]

I've been really enjoying Xamarin Android recently.

What's nice is that most of the regular Android tutorials/SO answers are easily translatable to Xamarin Android.

I have found myself just leaving the word Xamarin when I google something, as the ordinary Android resources are good enough.

[h1d]

Want to hear others' overall experience on Xamarin too.

It looked like it's just a middle ground that does neither as good as the native solutions. Was hoping MS will accelerate it to be more competitive.