[vans]

The comparaison with JS is perfect. Like JS is the asm of the web ecosystem (no one wants to write its code just in JS, we generate it instead), default android and IOS way of programming have to be be generated.

Try Xamarin [0] or the newcomer flutter [1]. It's such a pain in the ass to dev in raw android or raw ios, use multi platform sdks.

And if you start with xamarin, you can target windows phone too, even if nobody cares ;-)

[0] https://www.xamarin.com/ [1] https://flutter.io/

[rmsaksida]

I've had some terrible experiences with Xamarin. The tooling is very rudimentary compared to Android Studio, performance is subpar, app size is huge, and development is so slow it's maddening. I wouldn't recommend it other than for some very specific use cases. I'd much rather deal with just plain old Android issues than wrapped-by-Xamarin Android issues and Xamarin-specific issues.