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dragonfly02
dragonfly02

Reputation: 3669

Comparison between xamarin and ionic in cross platform mobile development

I have to admit I know very little about mobile development but after some research it seems that xamarin and ionic are two popular frameworks for cross platform mobile development using .net. Though I don't a great deal of either of them l.

I wonder what are the main differences between using Xamarin for front to back and using ionic with .net web api as backend? Of course xamarin is not free whereas ionic is.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 828

Answers (2)

Scott Jordan
Scott Jordan

Reputation: 11

Microsoft bought Xamarin and made it free removing that concern for adoption.

Upvotes: 1

Wosi
Wosi

Reputation: 45243

Xamarin

  • Write apps in C#
  • Create complete native UIs
  • Covers frontend and backend programming
  • Not free

ionic

  • Write apps with Javascript + HTML + CSS
  • Create good looking UIs which are not native
  • Basically used for creating UIs. Use other JS frameworks for backend programming.
  • Free to use

Upvotes: 5

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