<story><title>Xamarin Forms: it works</title><url>https://www.sharpnado.com/xamarin-forms-works/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apedley</author><text>This post actually highlights more of XF&amp;#x27;s downfalls than positives. I&amp;#x27;ve been a big XF developer for years, and XF has many positives but this example just shows that they needed SkiaSharp, Lottie, and native platform code just to get their app out.&lt;p&gt;Not to mention the need for additional components such as horizontal scroll, carousel view etc.&lt;p&gt;If you look at Flutter, most of this app could be done with just the Flutter SDK. Haven&amp;#x27;t really played much with RN, so not sure how that compares.</text></comment>
<story><title>Xamarin Forms: it works</title><url>https://www.sharpnado.com/xamarin-forms-works/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ninja10</author><text>I used xamarin a few years ago for a moderately sized iOS app. It got me about 95% there. That last few percent was brutal, the app kept crashing after coming back from the contact chooser. Couldn&amp;#x27;t find a way around it, even with latest xamarin version, hot fixes. Was very unfortunate. I&amp;#x27;m pretty skeptical of frameworks that abstract away a whole system. Hopefully, xamarin is a lot more stable and powerful these days.</text></comment>