<story><title>Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test their apps on Windows</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/11/microsoft-now-lets-ios-developers-deploy-run-and-test-their-apps-directly-from-windows</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pgoggijr</author><text>Are there any examples of solid, stable, cross-platform apps developed with Xamarin?  I tried looking at their website, but it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem possible to tell the difference between apps being tested using Xamarin Test Cloud, and apps developed using the Xamarin Platform.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dreeri</author><text>We have done several high profile cross-platform applications with Xamarin. As a user you can&amp;#x27;t really see the difference while using it. The most noticeable difference is that the app startup time is couple of seconds slower and the application bundle steals at least 10MB of app size. As a programmer the Developer Experience™ is a little rough around the edges with casual bugs. But hey you get to write your core business logic only once and in C#.&lt;p&gt;Here are some of the more visually appealing apps we&amp;#x27;ve made with Xamarin:&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;valopilkkutaksi.fi&amp;#x2F;briefly-in-english&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;valopilkkutaksi.fi&amp;#x2F;briefly-in-english&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.upmmetsani.fi&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.upmmetsani.fi&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fair.online&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fair.online&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test their apps on Windows</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/11/microsoft-now-lets-ios-developers-deploy-run-and-test-their-apps-directly-from-windows</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pgoggijr</author><text>Are there any examples of solid, stable, cross-platform apps developed with Xamarin?  I tried looking at their website, but it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem possible to tell the difference between apps being tested using Xamarin Test Cloud, and apps developed using the Xamarin Platform.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hart_russell</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve worked on a number of Xamarin apps. You can definitely make stable cross platform apps, it&amp;#x27;s just very tedious; sometimes it requires more effort than developing 2 separate native apps.</text></comment>