[zengid]

> This is a massive difference from Xamarin where cross-platform apps end up using the platform-native widgets which is known to result in non-trivial amounts of "if (Platform_Android) {...} else if (Platform_iOS) {...}"

Is your Xamarin experience using Xamarin.Forms? It sounds like Forms allows for more cross-platform gui code reuse. I'm doing a lot of investigation into Xamarin because I'm learning C# this summer for an internship and I love the language.

[mikece]

Xamarin.Forms provides an abstracted UI definition of common controls across platforms. This makes design faster since you can simply specify a Button or a Picker without knowing or caring that the actual implementations on iOS are UIButton or UIPickerView (eg: UIDatePicker) or that on Android they are android.widget.Button or android.app.DatePickerDialog. All UIs defined in Xamarin are rendered with OS-native widgets.