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Xamarin mentions (26)

• Making an android app with c#

  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

• App developer

  Microsoft Xamarin: For this you'll need to know C# and .net. Source: over 1 year ago

• I own a web development company in San Antonio and I'm looking for ideas to support the UTSA students with some sort of free courses or classes

  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

• Where to begin with idea?

  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: over 1 year ago

• React Native vs Flutter

  A bit later, Microsoft made their answer in the form of Xamarin, which got a lot of popularity. Xamarin is an open-source mobile app development platform later incorporated into Visual Studio. Xamarin allowed you to use C# to write business logic. Instead of HTML and CSS, it offered its markup language, XAML, which maps to the visual elements of the corresponding operating system. These were already much more... - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

Capacitor by Ionic mentions (112)

• PWAs wont replace native iOS apps

  > PWA optionally bundled with some native components for filing the gaps, as in Tauri. Isn't that essentially Capacitor? https://capacitorjs.com. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• IWTL coding

  Project: Build This Webpage (just this one page, make sure it is responsive (useful on all screen sizes)) => https://capacitorjs.com/. Source: 6 months ago

• Building Apps with Tauri and Elixir

  For the longest time, building desktop apps was a daunting task to web developers. That is, until technologies like Electron made creating these apps more approachable to a wider audience. Today, we’ve got a wide array of native applications built with solutions like Electron, Tauri, Capacitor, and many more. While these are great solutions, sometimes configuration can be tricky and the applications we create can... - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

• Bare Metal Rust in Android

  The traditional alternative to Electon on mobile platforms is Capacitor (which uses the system webview): https://capacitorjs.com/ (fka Apache Cordova, fka PhoneGap). - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Getting Started with PayloadCMS & Vue JS

  Ionic Framework UI Components are used to build a website and then a mobile application is built using Ionic Capacitor. Ionic UI components are not required but are used for UX. The vue js code presented here will work fine in a separate application. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago