[Meph504]

I think where Xamarin shines is in places where the development stack is already .net. If you are starting green pasture, and don't have .net developers already, then it seems to make very little sense.

With that said, I've made a number of apps in it, and it works well enough, but the more abstractions, the more problems, and you want to do anything outside of simple UI apps, you are likely going to have to learn how the native methods work anyway.