Based on our record, Xamarin seems to be a lot more popular than BuildBox. While we know about 27 links to Xamarin, we've tracked only 2 mentions of BuildBox. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
BuildBox takes these components and provides a development environment that allows non-coders to drag and drop assets and game logic to build their games from scratch. Budding designers can get started with a handful of templates that can be further customized with bespoke animation and event scripting to make games truly unique. Create 2D or 3D games with homemade art assets or purchase assets from the BuildBox... - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago
Https://signup.buildbox.com/ it isn't opensource, because no one is willing to do that much work for no money. Source: almost 3 years ago
Mobile Applications: With Xamarin, a cross-platform mobile development framework, developers can write C# code to build native Android, iOS, and Windows mobile applications. - Source: dev.to / 19 days ago
Xamarin - Basically an older version of MAUI. I would advise against creating new projects on Xamarin since MAUI is supposed to render it obsolete. Source: over 1 year ago
Microsoft Xamarin: For this you'll need to know C# and .net. Source: over 1 year ago
At my internship, we moved to Microsoft's Visual Studio for C# development from Java, and for application development we use Xamarin which can be used on Windows and Mac. Source: over 1 year ago
Of course, Unity is better with games. So, alternatives include MAUI, which is the new hip thing that Microsoft wants people to switch to. There is also WPF, WinForms, UWP, and Xamarin, which are compared nicely in this Reddit thread. Source: almost 2 years ago
Unity - The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.
Android Studio - Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA
Unreal Engine - Unreal Engine 4 is a suite of integrated tools for game developers to design and build games, simulations, and visualizations.
OutSystems - Build Enterprise-Grade Apps Fast.
Blender - Blender is the open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation.
Xcode - Xcode is Apple’s powerful integrated development environment for creating great apps for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Xcode 4 includes the Xcode IDE, instruments, iOS Simulator, and the latest Mac OS X and iOS SDKs.