[glenndebacker]

"The rest is this bizarre merger of native APIs with C#. "

That was the thing that struck me the most when following a Xamarin course. I just don't see the added benefits of Xamarin when you are at that level of using (or having knowledge of) native code.

[UK-AL]

The UI Code(The stuff that uses these apis) should be a thin layer ontop of the core app.