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Using Xamarin for iOs, Android and Windows Phone

I just have a question regarding the use of Xamarin. When making an app for iOS, how similar is it when making it for Android and Windows Phone? The code changes somehow ?

Thank you!

Solution

  • there are two general approaches to doing this:

    first, using Xamarin Classic/Platform, you would write separate UI for each platform you're supporting, but use shared libraries for non-UI code (data, business logic, services, etc).

    alternatively, you can use Xamarin Forms. XF allows you to write a single UI layer that is used by each platform, as well as the same shared library approach for backend code that Classic does. XF allows for customization per-platform in a variety of ways.

    Xamarin has numerous samples of using both approaches on their website.