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What Makes Xamarin Good for Developing Android Apps

Android has the largest share in the global smartphone market. It has had several far-reaching consequences for the development world. But perhaps the most significant result of Android’s supremacy in the market is that it has given rise to a pressing need for solutions that can effectively enable the development of apps underpinned by this OS. Thankfully, the answer to this quest is already available in the market: Xamarin. Sure, several solutions in the market promise a seamless Android app development process, but there aren’t many tools in the market that are quite as capable as Xamarin. This new-age cross-platform app development software facilitates, well, cross-platform app development in a manner that is as straightforward as it is efficacious.

Among other things, Xamarin helps developers’ lives easier by allowing them to share code for an app between several platforms and that too to quite a large extent. Besides this, it also companies and programmers to put together that successfully deliver an experience tailored to the demands and requirements of the end-users, i.e., apps that are both quick as well as effective. Then there’s also things like an accelerated process, substantially reduced development time, top-notch quality, and so much more. No wonder Xamarin is prevalent in today’s technology ecosystem all over the world. Nonetheless, to help you genuinely understand Xamarin’s potential in this context, we have listed some of its leading benefits as well as what makes it such a terrific choice for developing Android apps.

  1. Native app-like experience: Not many tools are capable of delivering an experience that is most similar to what a native app would be able to provide. Xamarin enables the development of Android apps that can successfully and effortlessly deliver an app experience that is so similar to the look and feel of a native Android app that end users would struggle to tell the two apart.
  2. Integrate high-quality components: One of the most productive benefits of using Xamarin is its components library. It allows the addition of ace components in the app, straight from the integrated development environment (IDE). Further, it includes cloud services, UI controls, web services, charts, themes, and graphs, among various other components. And let’s not forget that since Xamarin is integrated with Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio, adding elements that become much easier.
  3. Native API access: Building an Android app with Xamarin also provides programmers with access to the OS’ native APIs. And as any developer would tell you, this access can help save them a lot of time and effort, consequently accelerating the development process and allowing it to be introduced in the market far more quickly than one would have anticipated.

Thanks to a plethora of distinctive benefits such as the delivery of native performance, access to native APIs, enhanced productivity, cost efficiency, and so much more, there’s no doubt about the fact Xamarin mobile application development for Android is indeed a sage decision.

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