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by kayoone
3422 days ago
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We are using Xamarin for our mobile apps and around 90% of .NET code is shared between both platforms. The platform specific code is basically just UI related, which makes sense given the different approaches to some UI mechanics in iOS vs Android. Also leveraging the huge .NET Ecosystem which in general has quite high quality and superb tools for development and debugging is a big plus. We are also starting to use .NET Core for Backend Microservices which would allow more code sharing and Backend devs could in theory chime in on the mobile codebase quite easily. With all the cross compiling/ web assembly stuff going on it will probably soon be possible to use a .NET lib in JS frontend code as well. I agree that RN is a good alternative to this if your team is very JS dev heavy and while i did a lot of nodeJS and Angular in my life, i just loathe the JS ecosystem of today. |
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In our organization, it ended up being UI code that was the 90% number. The actual business logic code wasn't extremely extensive in the same way that we had to know Android and iOS, and then basically transpile mentally what we know into C#. Though almost all of the core SDK methods are named the same, so it wasn't too huge of a mental switch.
At this point with react-native, almost everything is shared. UI code, business logic, app state, etc. I think the node ecosystem opens our organization up to a lot more possibilities as well.
I've found that 3rd party react-native libraries are about the same quality as Xamarin Nuget packages. Some are good, most are meh.
Also, I upvoted you. Thanks for sharing your experiences.