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by sovande 2757 days ago
If you want to go down this road, doing mobile cross-platform native, Xamarin seems much more compelling. It is supported by a very good IDE and has proper licensing for distribution on the app stores. https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/xamarin/
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je42 2757 days ago
uhm. i tried it.

the example app you get out of the box. it didn't run the dummy tests successfully on either ios or android side (forgot which one).

upgraded to the latest version other issues on the example app.

for me this was already a big no-no. if the tests are failing on the example app.

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vtesucks 2757 days ago
+1 for xamarin.

One question though for app developers who are experienced in this field- does anybody know the relative running time of native vs managed code on android? Does it matter at all for ux-heavy code? How does the startup time look?

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